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You can use regular unmodified VFDs as tube amps, though the gain isn't great: http://hpfriedrichs.com/radioroom/vfd/rr-vfd.htm


Based on that article, I'm not convinced that it's the best that the part could do, based on the circuit schematic. We would not be using the windings of a transformer as a load in a typical gain stage in a musical instrument preamp. A typical inverting stage would have a large-ish resistor as its load, in parallel with the fairly high impedance of the next stage (another tube circuit that is similar).




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