Best Clean Fender AIAB

[falco_femoralis]

There’s always the Lovepedal Blackface (Luxury 763) or the Wampler one. I’ve tried neither but I believe @falco_femoralis likes the 763.

I like the 763 but it's not super clean. Maybe a Dumble style pedal would work better, like the Scenario Preamp

 

[bluedmc777]

Thanks dude, I’m just not looking at going that deep with it. I’m basically looking to do my own version of the Crazy Tubes HiPower.

If that’s the case you want a power booster and hiwatt style circuit. The Aion Fx ST-2 is supposedly Cornish take on the powerbooster. It’s a lot cleaner than other PB circuits I’ve tried.

 

[Musicjsmith]

PPCB Indiana Deluxe Overdrive is a pretty good blackface Fender sounding pedal with a 3-band EQ. It’s Wampler’s take on the circuit, the Black 65. FWIW the Indiana Tweed Overdrive does a pretty good tweed sound as well if anyone is after that tone.

Indiana Deluxe Overdrive

 

[ac30irons]

Cool, just riffing on my usual workflow. For clean stuiff I typically would start by modeling the actual original tube circuit in LTspice, then look at impedance scaling to an opamp circuit as appropriate. The only guitar AIAB tangent I've really worked so far outside of many Fender bassed ones was Dumble oriented, and all three I've built so far are radically different from each other. That's not necessarily such a bad thing though!

For my wants and needs Hiwatts have gotten my attention more as a bass thing, and in my case using a DR103 output transformer clone with 4 x EL-34 worked out really well for me.

Thanks for your input