Fender Rhodes Preamp input clipping?

[Skiroy]

Hey guys went I play my rhodes if I play alittle harder I seem to get some distortion as if it is clipping. Mow my upper register pickups are a little to close and I have to get my rhodes setup soon. And Im not clipping going into my DAW when recording. See most mic preamps have an input gain setting and an output gain stage setting. The rhodes only have volume which I assume is the output stage. So the question is:

Can you clip the input of a Rhodes preamp? And if so what do you do about it? Is this only fixed by the Pickup distance? I checked all my Caps and they are all good.

[Enzo]

How did you check the caps? It is not sufficient to just measure their value.

You may or may not have cap problems, but litle electrolytics are always suspect, as are tantalums. At the tiny voltages of this preamp, I am not to worried about film or ceramic caps. All it takes is a little DC leakage to push the operating point up or down and introduce clipping thaqt need not be.

[1ampman]

If your using a Fender tube amp. Try using the 2rd input jack because that is low impedance. It will help to some degree....

[Skiroy]

Im coming out of my rhodes preamp straight into a DAW. No guitar amps.

And I measured the caps with a multimeter with a capacitance checker setting.