I'm really interested in what you find here Larry. I have a PAiA "Stack in a
Box" (which neither sounds like a stack, nor comes in a box!) which is the
guitar optimized Tubehead. I find I need to use other pedals to get it really
nasty sounding -- I find the knobs labeled "Drive" and "Crunch" to be rather
misleading. I agree with your idea about this kind of circuit not pushing the
signal to go nonlinear, which would be more interesting and useful.
I should look at the other commercial products that were mentioned
(especially for my guitar) and I think we've previously discussed that
saturating the output transformer has a lot to do with the grinding sound
which I'd like to get. And of course VC inputs would make this very useful
for many modular applications. I think Eric Barbour had a tube based
wave-mangling device (possibly VC but not a kit as I recall) which got some
good reviews on diy. I can't remember the name of it though.
JB
In a message dated 10/31/2000 3:42:21 PM,
jlarryh@... writes:
>Re: I've got a tube up my a∗∗I own a Tubehead. I like it OK for what it
>does (great organ distortion for those Deep Purple like tones). However,
>it is not the sound I am looking for. You are right about the (starved
>plate design being a very low voltage). However, that is more of an abortion
>of the signal than the pushing into the non-linear response area