Originally Posted By: rayc
I had a listen to the Utub vid in your O.P. That's almost certainly a synth bass with time & spacial modulation. If it's an actual bass then it's had most of the string & finger noise as well as upper mids removed leaving just enough to give spacial clues for the stereo image.VERY heavily processed.

OK, so now that I have confirmation that you listened to the target tone I'm seeking, or at least trying to approximate, the question becomes how can I approximate that clean, fat tone?

Am I wrong to assume that it can be approximated?

The older amongst us have ears trained/calibrated by tube/valve amplification via radio/TV as well as LPs all of which have characteristics described by terms like warmth, saturation or fatness.

I have no such calibration.

The reality is that most of that is caused via distortion introduced by the valves/tubes/LP surface and today by deliberately created solid state, tube/valve or digital means.

Ahhh, we might be getting somewhere.
What precisely do you mean by "digital means" ?

The dirt added is usually pleasing to our ears as it meets expectations and it involves a lot of harmonics that give a "richer" fatter tone. Right, I'm seeking this tone precisely because it is pleasing.

An attempt to achieve this on the cheap but seemingly "trad" means is the inclusion of a starved plate tube/valve in a solid state circuit. becasue the tube isn't running warm or hot it won't generate the kind of harmonics or compression that is pleasing but they add some of their native noise to the circuit. In many cases the signal isn't even passed through the valve/tube - just some current to get some noise which is blended in. This rarely works well and simple solid state circuits can do it better - digital processes even more so. I'm not following this. What is "trad"? And I don't have valve/tubes in my signal chain.

So I can really get my head around this please let me know what digital model you're using in your amp.
We can assess what that does for your signal and what would, therefore, be unnecessary down stream.
Mario asked essentially the same question. I answered it as best I could in post #775189

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