Overdrive from Peavey standard (reconstruntion from last forum crash)

[tca]

> It simply portrays the effect of feedback loop becoming less effective and thus gain increasing and skewing the signal.
> The plot shows the output waveform of the first gain stage of T-Dynamics circuit so don't forget that this wave is immediately CLIPPED in following stages, which effectively removes the "nipple" part.
Unless the signal is very hard clipped I don't see how this effect is washed out of the signal.

> ...basically, this is also what would happen in a tube amplifier because during the "nipple" the power tubes would clip the signal in cutoff state. You did catch that part from Valve Wizard site, did you?
That is state there, but the problem with this to-avoid-type-of-distortion is something like the crossover distortion. You don't like when playing clean but it actually sounds good with distortion.

> No "nipples" there at all.


> I state it again: Such output waveforms coming out from a generic guitar amplifier are extremely rare and designer's try to avoid such distortions. Probably because they don't sound all that nice.

As you said, tone preferences are a matter of taste. Probably?

Cheers.