I noticed the LA2A uses makeup GAIN and the crunch squeeze knob is therefore needing a hot input to sound like the real LA2A.
After a friend posted a youtube, I caught that on the hardware its a Input Gain....so this overdrives more.
When I went and added a Mic PreAmp in PodFarm, cranked it up and then "squeezed the PodFarm/LA2A" it started sounding like the real one. Very cool......
but its not mentioned well, so thought I would post this.
I used a Mic>Vinatge UK (Neve 1073) cranked almost max, no eq> LA2A with Threshold about max and Gain at 0db....sounds really good.
just fyi...