I went with this preamp, clean all the way up, clipping is mostly from my LM386 power amp https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56a5a0e242f55268768a0c2b/t/59275264be6594ad0823dc71/1495749220225/MM+HD+Pre.png

Thats truth but Sunn Beta Lead preamp doesnt use diodes and output is strong enough to saturate TPA...often i use resistor in series with volume pot so i have smaller range of volume

Yeah but often shipping costs more than PCB. TPA3116 is good choice too but im not sure if i want PA which cant sound "good" while clipping. I have only 20W speaker so im little bit limited.
I know about his circuits. His MDR will be my distortion channel or at least distortion pedal. Im not sure about 59 Bassman since there arent any sound clips of it. Another idea is his Orange emulator

But same as Fender Bassman it can be quite clean...i like lots of tones, i like to play some sludge metal too so it wont harm to have Sunn Model T preamp I found just one clip where is Sunn Beta Lead in clean, even preamp pedal but its hard from one video. For now i dont have CMos chips it uses and not so big and quality breadboard.

You mean Marshall Lead 12? I tried to breadboard it but something went wrong and didnt sound right. I measured all caps and resistor but i couldnt find what was wrong...
I want just clean preamp with gain around Sunn Model T, not high gain, for high gain i have pedals. I made Sunn Model T Jfet version from Coda Effects but since my Jfets are quite higher gain, it sounded horrible. I found one design of preamp which use Jfet but with different gate bias method followed by BJT buffer going into tonestack and then same Jfet/BJT stage again, for now i breadboarded just first stage and tonestack and its nice clean but with bypass cap on source its again too gainy even if i roll down volume. I want it for home use, just some playing for fun. I have TDA7297 poweramp pcb which i want to isw with 9 or 12v

Any schematics for it? Links aren working anymore

Hi, i want to make my own solid state amp from preamp and poweramp chip and i want to make some good preamp with tonecontrols. I tried BJT designs, jfet preamp emulators , even opamp based but nothing sounds like i want it to... jfets sounded best but the ones i have are too powerfull, when i bias them to 1/2 of PS i cant get clean tone. Sound im looking for is clean, with gain maxed little bit dirty but not too much, maybe 2 gain stages, classic tonestack and what i can clean up with turnign volume down on guitar. Any ideas? I tried Alembic Fet2B, i liked it most, but i had to omit 47uF bypass caps parallel to resistors because i got overdrive not clean sound. There is how i would like it to sound (intro) https://youtu.be/Dhfy9TPga-c