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2026-05-09 19:58 UTC
@alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com but you still want it to sound like a real guitar amp? ie not actually all that clean objectively even though it sounds clean?
my experience trying to do this without digital trickery is that the limiting factor is finding a guitar speaker that will play that quietly and still sound good, a 5w valve amp is no problem, or even less, but a speaker that will play at acoustic levels without sounding a bit lame is unobtainable or nearly so.
ofc if you model your clean sound with an amp model and use a PA style amp that's another whole thing and it will go any level you like, but I've never got on with simulated amps, some combo of latency and subtle wrongness to tone and response always sends me back to my real amps. That said I haven't tried expensive simulators.
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@Moss@beige.party 2026-05-09 21:05
@xenogon@sunny.garden @alisynthesis@io.waxandleather.com same thought here: you can get amazing distorted tone out of a tiny amp, but clean full tone with decent headroom is much harder. A smallish powered PA cab might be the ticket.