I'm not a better man than any one here, i'm just someone who happens to have been teached some engineering and math stuff a long time ago and have a tendency to overthink sometimes :lmao: :duh
Regarding your approximate concept of tube tone, we do agree:
Tone shaping (guitar pickup, guitar tone and volume circuit, even picking technique, guitar cable, components that might be added/set before the first buffer; then if you put it in pre-clipping EQ/tone tweaking stage) - half wave clipping - tone shaping circuit - half wave clipping - tone shaping circuit - (repete those two for the number of triod stages you have) - tone stack - symetrical clipping (push pull stage) - tone shaping device (guitar speaker).
In my opinion, chosing between high input impedance or not is a choice (I do not pretend one is "better" than the other) impacting the first tone shaping stage of your rig even if it's not the one you would think you act on if you are working on *an amp* or *a stompbox*. Good on you if with your choice you make a good sounding overall rig, which is the case here. And I've heard a lot of people make good use of very low input impedence devices (old school fuzz boxes for instance), I just can't get my head around it as it implies some dynamically changing tone shaping. That doesn't mean it's not right to do so.
And according to Hartley Peavey, the output transformer of tube amps could very well perform also some dynamically changing tone shaping, which is hard to perfectly emulate, but also very hard to understand in for me.
Regarding your approximate concept of tube tone, we do agree:
Tone shaping (guitar pickup, guitar tone and volume circuit, even picking technique, guitar cable, components that might be added/set before the first buffer; then if you put it in pre-clipping EQ/tone tweaking stage) - half wave clipping - tone shaping circuit - half wave clipping - tone shaping circuit - (repete those two for the number of triod stages you have) - tone stack - symetrical clipping (push pull stage) - tone shaping device (guitar speaker).
In my opinion, chosing between high input impedance or not is a choice (I do not pretend one is "better" than the other) impacting the first tone shaping stage of your rig even if it's not the one you would think you act on if you are working on *an amp* or *a stompbox*. Good on you if with your choice you make a good sounding overall rig, which is the case here. And I've heard a lot of people make good use of very low input impedence devices (old school fuzz boxes for instance), I just can't get my head around it as it implies some dynamically changing tone shaping. That doesn't mean it's not right to do so.
And according to Hartley Peavey, the output transformer of tube amps could very well perform also some dynamically changing tone shaping, which is hard to perfectly emulate, but also very hard to understand in for me.