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Title: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: yeeshkul on November 25, 2013, 07:14:51 AM

Hi guys, i've received a vintage Hot Tubes unit, and the maximum overdrive it can do is about as much as Tubescreamer.
Is that correct? I thought Hot Tubes can get fuzzy...

Title: Re: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: Mark Hammer on November 25, 2013, 12:00:13 PM

Nope. They excel at producing Keith Richards grunt, and are probably suitable for "British blues", but fuzz - unless extracted from an amp being pushed hard - is not in their nature.

Title: Re: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: yeeshkul on November 25, 2013, 06:07:15 PM

Thanks Mark. I couldn't find any problem in the circuit. I am glad i can stop searching now :).

Title: Re: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: aron on November 25, 2013, 07:50:49 PM

Put an LPB-1 in front! :-)

Title: Re: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: yeeshkul on November 27, 2013, 03:10:12 AM

Yeah, i saw this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWJR-sdfbDk

When he plays LP the sound is quite distorted. It must be the pickups (from 5:30 on).

Title: Re: Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive
Post by: Radcon on November 29, 2013, 12:42:41 PM

I breadboarded something similar (madbean Snarkdoodle) and immediately wanted more. Tore that out and started a Runoffgroove Double D. Much more hotness.

http://www.runoffgroove.com/doubled.html

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