Hello, I have a question about the difference between boosting a solid state amp and tube amp.
I have only solid state guitar amps, so I play, make my tests and experiment with circuits with just those amps.
I'm wondering if the behaviour of the two kind amps is different when I push them with a booster.
In particular, I put on my breadboard the CE-1 preamp. On Low mode it based on op-amp has a good amount of clean volume, until it starts to clip in a not so musical way (op-amp clipping, I assume).
(In the high mode it there a BJT booster in front to push it even more, with more volume and more distortion. But the sound is more or less the same).
When I watch demos of some replica of the CE-1 preamp what I can hear is it get in overdrive nicer and milder, without push just in volume.
When I test this (or other) op-amp booster circuit with my solid state amp I got a big volume boost with distortion at higher setting of gain, (it depends from the circuit).
In a tube amp should I expect less volume boost and more natural overdrive of the tube preamp caused by the push of the booster?
I have only solid state guitar amps, so I play, make my tests and experiment with circuits with just those amps.
I'm wondering if the behaviour of the two kind amps is different when I push them with a booster.
In particular, I put on my breadboard the CE-1 preamp. On Low mode it based on op-amp has a good amount of clean volume, until it starts to clip in a not so musical way (op-amp clipping, I assume).
(In the high mode it there a BJT booster in front to push it even more, with more volume and more distortion. But the sound is more or less the same).
When I watch demos of some replica of the CE-1 preamp what I can hear is it get in overdrive nicer and milder, without push just in volume.
When I test this (or other) op-amp booster circuit with my solid state amp I got a big volume boost with distortion at higher setting of gain, (it depends from the circuit).
In a tube amp should I expect less volume boost and more natural overdrive of the tube preamp caused by the push of the booster?