Minibooster Clipping Question

[kbibs]

Does anyone know of a way to soften or smooth the clipping you get from a minibooster? It seems a little too hard or crunchy (for me anyways) when fed into a clean Fender Twin Reverb. I'm running it w/o the source bypass cap so the amount of clipping is low. Would putting say a 470pf cap across the D ans S of the top or bottom FET do this?

Thanks!

[aron]

It would probably help.

[petemoore]

  What transistors ?
  MPF102 is lower gain, but the MB has non-linear behaviour as part of it's intrinsic nature.

[kbibs]

I'm using 2N5457s. Going with MPF102 will probably get rid of the clipping all together?  It's not that I don't want it to clip I just want to soften it.

Thanks for the replies!

[amptramp]

Check your battery voltage - most circuits tens to have a certain amount of headroom before clipping and more supply voltage usually means less clipping.  If you are using a wall wart, check the output voltage - some of them are not as advertised.