RL> If you want meat, try it through a Carvin 4x10.  Mine grows HUGE balls
 RL> when I plug it into mine.  It's got the Carvin VL-10 speakers, but is
 RL> made from oak instead of birch ply, it's the same dimensions on the 
ace,
 RL> but mine is about an inch or two deeper.  Partial open back, like
 RL> Carvin's.
       Well, I've got a beautiful Peavey 4x12 that has balls that would make 
it difficult for an Italian man to walk. :) It's closed back, which gives me 
a thump that I couldn't ask to be better. :)
 RL> Basically... though the BJ does have the fat switch, which activates an
 RL> FET on the cathode of the first triode to increase the gain slightly,
 RL> however,
       So, it's not really an active midrange boost like I thought it was. 
But how much of a boost is it? It's just basically overdriving the first 
triode enough to sweeten it, huh? 
 RL> even though the two amps have identical power sections and
 RL> basically the same preamp, the tone stack does have a major effect on
 RL> both the tone and the gain.
       Well, that's basically a given. If they screwed up and put a huge coil 
of wire going from the the input to the first triode it would change the 
tone, so obviously some extra pots and caps and resistors are gonna change 
things. :) 
 RL>  I built that little 30mw tube practice amp,
 RL> and it could not be heard with a tone stack in place... an extra driver
 RL> stage would have been needed to make up for the signal loss.
       It added that much resistance to the signal? Maybe if there were some 
higher gain 12AX7 plugin replacements that could drive it a bit harder.
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