Ice cube

Walter Glockler · Post by **Walter Glockler** » 14 May 2003 9:34 am

Does anyone remember the ice cube, a lttle device, that connected the reverb in- and output at least on a Fender Princeton and how it worked ?
Walter Glockler

chas smith R.I.P. · Post by **chas smith R.I.P.** » 14 May 2003 10:52 am

I thought he was in NWA.

D Schubert · Post by **D Schubert** » 14 May 2003 11:01 am

What I remember was that it fit on any Fender tube amp, plugged into the reverb send and return jacks. It converted the reverb knob to a distortion knob. This was in the early 70's as I recall, advertised in Guitar Player Magazine. Price was about $20.

I have also seen guitar players put 100' of cable between the reverb send and return jacks, and bypass the reverb tank, to get a distortion effect.

And they also advertised a SuperIceCube, that had a slide or knob that would let you split the signal, 0-100% to reverb and 100-0% to distortion. This was about $60.

Gino Iorfida · Post by **Gino Iorfida** » 14 May 2003 11:22 am

If I recall correctly, the ice cube was nothing more than a coupel resistors (one to giv e the proper load to the reverb transformer, 2 to provide a voltage divider to the return so as not to give TOO much signal, and a coupel clipping diodes in between for some fuzzzz