Design for overdriven output stage

[badoumba]

Hi there!

I am currently searching for a design that would be great for a typical overdriven blues sound. This means I would rather go for a clean preamp and a saturated output stage. Single ended seems to be the best choice as it saturates easier (and I dont need more than 15W).

The Valve Wizard website speaks about different valves for this end:

The output power from a SE pentode stage will be roughly half the anode dissipation of the valve, so we'll need a valve capable of 20W or more. There is actually a wide range of valves that fit the bill, but the most common for guitar use are the EL34 (25W), 6L6GC (30W), or a pair of parallel EL84s (24W). We can disregard 'big bottle' valves such as the 6550, KT66, KT88 and KT90, as they will easily deliver more power than we want

Seems also that 6V6 would be the a tube of choice for bluesy sound...

I just expext some feedback about this design choice and maybe about the tube choice 🙂

Thanks in advance

 

[DF96]

You might get a better response in the right forum area.

Why do some guitarists seem unable to understand "Threads about Musical Instrument Amps of all kinds should be in the Instruments & Amps forum"?

 

[badoumba]

Because my question is directly related to how tubes are working, not such or such amp feature or choice guidance. And I never said that I was guitarist 🙂

 

[DF96]

Ok, so you are not a guitarist and this thread is about "typical overdriven blues sound" which has nothing to do with musical instrument amps. Fine.

 

[kuroguy]

I for one would like a HIFI amp with the ability to make my clean recordings sound as bad as Nirvana. Sadly, I suspect it would only make my recordings sound like ****.

 

[badoumba]

Nice forum
Don't bother reply, I'm out