do you see what I see?.. ( link inside )

[Johan]

I've had a feeeling and suspicion about a certain circuit for quite some time. simply that it could do much more than what we use it for. but accurate information hasnt been easy to find..
..a similar circuit to the one Im talking about has been described as "the exellent, aincent two transistor phonopreamp used by Neve and others"...
it might not be obvious at first but with the information in the text about the gainseting..its pretty damn close...se if you can see what I see..
http://members.nuvox.net/~zt.robgrow/circuits/neve/neveba283.html  ..its the first one..

johan

[Nasse]

Clean face, beam me up Scotty!??? But is there  too much feedback...

[Johan]

...   exelent...the fuzzface combined with an output buffer and a mic transformer on the input, becomes ( almost ) a Neve style mic preamp..this offcourse makes statements from oldtimers about overdriving the micinputs with the guitar on many old recordings just make a lot of sence, even for those of us who are used to Mackie, behringer, Allen&heath or whatever...

johan

[WGTP]

A quick glance out the side of my glasses and it looks like a Tone Bender. 

Plus they were using GE transistors and scatter wound guitar pickups.   

That, plus the transformers explains a lot. 

[puretube]

looks like an old Siemens application note from 1963 (with TF65 transistors) for a mixingconsole circuit, which adapts gain factor according to the source resistance,
in order to maintain a relative constant output volume...
(by virtue of the feedback...)