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I'm not sure what you mean by gain. Do you mean simple voltage gain, as in the amp gets really loud? Or do you mean overdrive/distortion, as in the tone gets saturated? I have a 5F4 Super clone, and I would say the amp is more about loud than it is about saturation.
Regarding the references to the 5F6A Bassman, the 5F4 Super is quite different from input to output. Smaller V1 cathode bypass cap, completely different tone circuit, split load phase inverter, both the plates and the screens of the output tubes fed from the output of the choke. In terms of circuit topology, the Super is much closer to the 5E6A Bassman or the 5E8A Twin.
As for the 5D4, looking at the schematic, I would expect the amp to be not as loud nor as aggressive as the 5F4.
Bob Arbogast
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