This could have gone in 'a confession' but that's closed, so here it is.
I was learning guitar, and knew that distortion sounded good in the heavy music I liked. I didn't have a fuzz box. So I used my (old, donated and worked OK) stereo as a preamp, and connected one speaker output into the input of my little practice amplifier. It sounded great...for quite a short while. I...ummm...denied all knowledge
