Audio peak limiter with “tub sound”

Audio peak limiter with “tube sound”

I am working on audio processing again.
Some people like the “warm sound” of a tube, or the “analog” sound of R-R tape, or some people claim they can hear “input transformer sound”. I am not here to argue the merits of this.
I need a soft peak limiter that is similar to a tube amp, with out the tube! I have an adjustable peak limiter working that is not soft enough.
Question: Have any of you made a “tube effect” using solid state? How? Advice! Thanks.

You say TUB but do you mean Vacuum Tube? (TOOB)
They had high even hormonics distortion and soft clipping.

An opamp has soft clipping when a diode is in the negative feedback path.

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Google is your friend.

The diodes give fuzz distortion beginning at 20% of max output power.

So just make sure the audio signal is very low current. Buffer it if need be. Though audioguru would know best if there's a simpler circuit to do this than I.

The same site has a low distortion Fast Peak Limiter circuit for people who don't like the distortion added by vacuum tubes:
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Tub sound? Do you mean shower sound?