My amp is limiting.

[moeburn]

I noticed that when I tried playing my tube screamer on certain settings, i wouldn't get any sound out of my amp.  However, if I turned the amp's volume way down, it would sound beautiful, like it was supposed to sound.

Somewhere halfway in between that volume setting, my amp is sort of "limiting" the sound.  If i play quietly, the amp plays it fine, but if I play harshly, the amp cuts out and plays nothing at all.

What can I do to my amp to fix this?

[cd]

Sounds like blocking distortion.  Turn down the level of the TS.

[moeburn]

Sounds like blocking distortion.  Turn down the level of the TS.

Problem is, my TS is also going through a homemade LM386 booster without a volume control, so turning down the TS doesn't help much.

[guitarhacknoise]

Sounds like blocking distortion.  Turn down the level of the TS.

Problem is, my TS is also going through a homemade LM386 booster without a volume control,......

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-matthias

[cd]

Sounds like blocking distortion.  Turn down the level of the TS.

Problem is, my TS is also going through a homemade LM386 booster without a volume control, so turning down the TS doesn't help much.

Well there's your other problem right there.  Get rid of the booster.  The LM386 is a POWER amplifier designed to drive speakers.  If you want clean gain it's not supposed to be used to drive a line level input.

You're using a solid state amp, right?