Hot Tubes produce just mild overdrive

[yeeshkul]

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...

[Mark Hammer]

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.

[yeeshkul]

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

[aron]

Put an LPB-1 in front! :-)

[yeeshkul]

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).

[Radcon]

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