[geoff]

On 12/02/2019 4:36 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
geoff wrote:

We are talking specifically in an electric guitar context no ? Hardly an
amp designed to minimise distortion ?

So that would be why distortion from over-driving a solid-state guitar
amp (discount 'modelling amps') is just as pleasing as that from a valve
amp then - not ?

Comparing a tube amplifier and a solid state amplifier is like comparing
apples and oranges... totally different topology, totally different output
stage. Many of the differences have little to do with the devices and
everything with how they are used. An enormous amount of the coloration from
a tube amp is in the output transformer.
--scott



So there is no truth in the old adage that distortion products of
over-driven valves are of predominantly even order harmonics which are
pleasing to the ear, as opposed to the predominantly odd-order harmonics
that resulting from the distortion from over-driving solid-state
devices, which are considered unpleasant ?

geoff