The clerk laid about 6 on the floor, and plugged me in to a handy Marshall. However, I didn't care for the overdrive, so I went shopping for a stompbox. True story: When I got sick of poor quality of the Russian tubes at the end of the '80s, I borrowed my brother's Jazz Chorus for a while and loved it. They also go to 20, doing Nigel 9 better. They have 15 opamps and one tube in the preamp section, making them true hybrids.
LED CLIPPING DETECTOR FULL
The JCM 900 Dual Reverbs have two LEDs in the clean channel, and a full bridge in the lead channel. The only difference is that the LED gives you a cool light show while it's doing it. Zero Point: All diodes react like you describe. Keen mentions "MOSFET diodes" but I think his article came after mine. I don't know if I did invent that MOSFET and diode clipper circuit, but if you can find any other mention of it before I published it online in 1999, I'd be very interested, and maybe a bit disappointed too R.G. I ended up using it like a Tube Screamer, to drive lower gain amps. Having said that, I had good fun with one of the old black Marshall Shredmaster stomp boxes, by pulling a capacitor from the tone stack to get a treble boost, and adding a schottky diode somewhere (I've forgotten exactly where.) to make it slightly asymmetrical. I forget which ones they are, apart from the JMP-1. The most famous example being Marshall's newer amps with the bridge rectifier clipper. Asymmetrical clipping combined with high gain can start sounding kind of faulty, as if the amp was about to die on you. Yeah, I guess, most amps designed for heavier styles are made to clip symmetrically. If you think you're in that top 10%.that's wonderful. Probably 90% of the guys I see using old 4-hole Marshalls sound way worse (which probably shouldn't be the case.but it is). I think Jubilees sound pretty good but not everyone does.especially when they find out there's dreaded SS stuff in there. The 'Rhythm Clip' mode is basically the clean channel with two regular diode clippers added. Rod is correct that the Jubilees use LEDs (but there are only two LEDs and they are part of a little 'clipper network' that uses 2 LEDs and 3 regular diodes) but the LEDs are only for the Lead channel. Put a Fulldrive II in 'Comp Cut' mode and listen to the output go up.you just removed the clipping diodes from the circuit. Lower clipping threshold means more distortion/clipping and less output.higher clipping threshold means less distortion and more output. LEDs clip at different thresholds based on their color and brightness (and probably other stuff but color and brightness are good enough).I think some super bright whites and blues can go way higher. As OTM mentioned.regular diodes clip at a much lower threshold.