Paul Winkler wrote:
This is also worth considering, by a guy who's put
a lot
of time into building analog (solid-state) tube amp
simulators:
http://home3.netcarrier.com/~lxh2/distampt.html
also the other shots the same guy has (pod distortion
actually sounds quite good imo):
http://home3.netcarrier.com/~lxh2/pod.html
where a sine morphs into something almost perfectly square
as the gain rises (much like your first link's scope
images from the real tube thing).
i'm not sure how to correctly model this clipping in sw.
steve's valve.xml is, afaict, not guaranteed to be band-
limited if we extend it to support this kind of shaping.
nice googling.
tim