[Scott Dorsey]

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

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