is to distortion what the Rosetta Stone was to hieroglyphics - a key that will open a ruinous dimension of dirt to you and your audiences (RIP, sorry in advance).
GAIN 1 and FOCUS pair to set the stage for the ruin to come, allowing you to pick your overdrive/distortion flavor and swath of EQ destruction.
GAIN 2 is bright and gritty, adding all the bite and edge you’ll ever need. This unholy concoction is topped off with the three-band EQ from a famous Model of Tube amp circuiT (you know the one)))).
Sell the house. Sell the car. Sustain yourself on pure tone and the blood of the innocent.
Gain control located at the very front end of the circuit - even before the JFET pre-amp - so you can really dial in exactly how hard you want to drive the first JFET mu-amp clipping stage. The clipping stage uses a carefully chosen diode configuration to generate a touch-sensitive overdrive with lots of attack.
After the first JFET mu-amp clipping stage, there is a second JFET mu-amp clipping stage with its own dedicated gain control! Thus, gain 2 allows you to take your already EQ’d and clipping signal and wallop it further, this time with the aid of some asymmetrical LED clipping. Roll Gain 2 back to let Gain 1 dial in a heavy OD/Distortion tone. Or crank both to push your signal into gnarly, touch-sensitive fuzz territory, and watch the LED fire off in celebration – Ra approves!
Placed in the circuit just after the JFET pre-amp, it works a bit like a tilt-style EQ control with a flat response at twelve o’clock. Use it to dial in exactly what frequencies you want to slam that first clipping stage with: roll it back to soften the treble while boosting lows and low-mids for extra thickness, or crank it up to boost high-mids for a sharper attack and searing clarity
After all that retina-melting gain, surely a little frequency shaping is in order? Well, yeah. But why settle for a little? We added a full passive 3-band EQ, borrowed from a certain ’70s amp favored by the sun goddess Sekhmet for its world destroying power & tone.