Looking for tube sound goodness without tube hassle

[Blujay]

I agree that guitar strings are rich in harmonics, especially 5th and 6th strings --- not only on strings but also on guitar, pick, pick angle and attack etc as you say. - you can see it on the scope -

However I made a box with strong second harmonic and may friend's tele sounded much better. I made a box for him and he still raves about it.

My Guild T50 does not need anything added but the Les Paul definitely does

Agree -- filtering important --for pre filtering cut bass and treble

 

[oltos]

When I want tube sound, I play records from the 1960s and early 1970s. This is authentic tube sound, reproduced spectacularly through my solid-state amplifier.

Ed

Would be pretty amazing if leading commercial https://www.uaudio.com/about Windows plug-in brands or media player brands like https://jriver.com/ could pull off a 300B SET emulation that sounded this good. https://verdantaudio.com/collections/art-audio

Or even like the now forever lost original Tripathi chip amp that Pano and many others raved about.
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/the-end-for-tripath-say-it-aint-so.93149/#post-1093894
https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/is-tripath-class-t-outdated-performance-or-not.349002/

 

[stocktrader200]

How do these circuits sound?
The waveforms shown don't appear with a real tube until the tube in into soft clipping.