Pete Cornish will give you chapter and verse why they are shite and what they do in terms of tone suck when in a chain but switched off. With an ei12ax7 I can get a really close EJ sound (I think the rest is in the fingers) with my Mesa amp and strat. Jester does basically the same, but about 4 times better.
If you want Sloe Gin in a box, get a Jester. If anyone wants mine, email me this is one of the staple Gilmour pedals, and it's still a very good pedal, yet I think they're crap compared to the Kingsley Jester, which is in another league. Congrats on the BK Butler Kev, it's one I'll never sell! I feel that it's easier to get the "violin" tone with that particular tube. The 12AU7 also tames a little of the spikey-ness of the JJ 12AX7. There is so much gain in these that you actually get a much more musical and usable range with the lower gain tube. Get a feel for the pedal with that tube but IMO I heard a DRAMATIC improvement in mine with a NOS JAN 12AU7. So it isn't exactly the same, the 1k resistor is on the tube board (probably a sub for the 2.2k heater. The tube inside appears to be a JJ ECC83 - is this a 12AX7? There is a 1k resistor from pin 5 (heater) to the 470k grid pullup resistor.
Some tube drives compensate for this with how theyre tuned but others do not which accounts for why on something like the butler you run the eq on zero basically. It arrived today!! I am looking at it now in my office - can't wait to get home and crank it up. The 12ax7 on its own is very bright because power tubes tend to be dark, thus why you need less bass on an amp as you crank it.
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