06/08/2025
When I designed this, the original idea was to just adapt the drive channel from this kinda crappy, kind of awesome practice amp I bought when I was 16. It was called a Fender Princeton 112 Plus, maybe you had one. It was a solid state 1x12 combo amp released in 1992, at the tail end of metal's hold on the mainstream. It was absolutely designed for young metalheads.
The first few revisions sounded a little *too* much like a junior metal sound. I kept the drive stage and changed out the EqIng for a wider-ranged cut/boot 3 band stack. Thing was so loud I had to give it +/-16V rails to keep the EQ from clipping when maxed out though!
Did a re-design in 2021 that involved using a dual gang drive pot to lower the volume of the signal later in the path as you increase gain, keeping the output level at unity regardless of the drive k**b setting; it also adds in a high passed clean signal on top of the overdriven signal to keep the highs articulate and chimey.
Overall it does everything I wanted it to - it accepts abuse from pedals before it with incredible grace, and spits venom at everything after it. Really one to be proud of.
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