Time to dust off the depletion mode MOSFETs in the bin. Here is a quite interesting design using four of these overlooked transistors. It is basically Plexi voiced a low to medium gain overdrive with a James tonestack.
Each MOSFET have a3,3k resistors at its Source and according to the schematic these should be adjusted until you get 6-7 DC V at each transistors Drain so I replaced the 3,3k resistors with 5k trimpots,
Demo, schematic and writeup by the creator jonn.reckless at DIYSB.