How to get a great tube tone out of your rectoverb at any volume.

  I don't care if you are living in an apartment and need to play at very low volume,if you own a tube amp you want to hear a tube tone coming out of it. The problem is that to so you must crank it all the way up  right? Well yes, but what is the next best thing? The THD hotplate is the answer. I use one on my rectoverb and will not do without it. What the THD hotplate does is , it allows you to crank your master volume up  to get power amp saturation while converting that pwer to heat and feeding a much lower signal to your speaker. Sure this isn't going to get you the desired speaker "break-up" that you get from cranking it but it will get you the warm tube saturation that us guitarist can't do without. The THD hotplate has two switched for high and low e.q. that gives you another e.q. option between your amp and speaker...nice and very handy. It also comes with a form of noise reduction that does not clip your sound.