[James Price[_5_]]

What's the differentiating factor between digital clipping at the input stage, and its effect on the end result, compared to how an analog guitar amplifier sounds when boosted?

To refine the question, if I'm recording guitar using a digital amp / guitar cab simulator into a DAW and the input of the guitar is clipping, how does that clipping affect the digital amp / cab and what's the end result at the output end (after the amp / cab) compared to an analog amplifier with huge amounts of input boost?