quintosardo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 24, 2018 8:38 am Well, actually it is about dynamic range available to clean sounds. You can use it quite clean like here.
Don't forget, though, that the first Deluxe (like this one) was known to have an input Gain control that acted almost like a drive control.
The circuit doesn't have a feedback resistor in the out stage like almost all successive have, so it can distort eadily. Big part of its character.
See our N. Young experiment: sounds like the real thing, like it or not, but with lots of character:
https://www.sknoteaudio.com/wp/index.ph ... eil-young/
Our TwinR has a wider clean dynamic range available, different thing.
But as I mentioned, at the moment (until you add an input gain control) you can add some gain-trimmer before and after the amp to get a lot more clean headroom - won't compress the signal nearly as much then either.