The Hughes and Kettner Tube Factor is a high-voltage tube-driven boost/overdrive guitar pedal with two Tube Factor settings. The pedal is capable of a wide variety of guitar tones, ranging from clean subtly boosted blues sounds to heavy rhythm timbres, and screaming, overdriven leads.
A Choice of Tube Factors
The pedal supplies a full 300V to the real tube inside, just like a normal tube amp would
Tube Factor 1
- Delivers bluesy, singing lead tone with loud and tight clean sound
- Fine-tunes the dynamics and response between your guitar and amp for a warm, fat tone
Tube Factor 2
- Delivers big high-gain, saturated lead tone, and heavy-duty rhythm crunch with loads of punch
- Activates the Drive mode for frequency boost in the lows and highs
- Gives amp more attack
Voicing
- Supplies active sound-shaping of the tonal spectrum
- Experiment with settings for tones ranging from spiced up to ultra-agressive
Output
- Determines how hard you drive your amp
- Lower setting for neutral preamp
- Higher setting for compression and distortion
Drive
- Dial in the amount of distortion you want
