On January 13, 2013 09:45:58 PM Tim Goetze wrote: > [Tim E. Real] > > >Applied patch. The model seems to still make very little difference. > >Hard to tell, but it seems like only model 7 sounds different than the > >rest. Also hard to tell but the brightness seems to make no difference. > >Should there be so little difference in these settings? > > Situated rather early in the signal path, the tonestack's influence on > the sound will lessen as more gain is applied. (The model switches > found on commercial amp emulators will very likely also change a host > of other circuit characteristics in addition to the tonestack, so the > sound change will be much more pronounced. I prefer to expose those > characteristics with fully independent controls.) > > The current tonestack model 7 is from a very small amp and it comes > with an unusually great amount of treble cut and bass boost designed > into it, probably intended to compensate for the poor bass response of > the small loudspeaker and casing. > > The 'bright' filter is located between the two saturating stages so, > like the tonestack's, its effects are less pronounced when high gain > drives the poweramp stage into heavy saturation. Also, when you turn > up 'gain' and/or 'power', the range of the 'bright' control is reduced > in order to unmap unusable regions of the parameter space. Anyway, > you may still notice that lower 'bright' settings can help to clean up > hi-gain noise, especially in notes higher up the neck. > > You could replace the 'bright' filter with a more intricate > arrangement (I've been thinking about an experiment with a 4-way eq) > to get further sound shaping options, but I think that more meaningful > control over the hi-gain tone can be had by routing the amp's output > through an additional equaliser. Given the abundance of good eq > plugins, there seemed to be no good reason to put one into the amp > itself (though that may change too).
OK makes sense to me. Thanks. My mistake, I "turned it down, man" and can now hear the differences with all controls. After that, even with gain at full I can now recognize the differences. Tim. > > >Anyway, so far it sounds really good. > >It seems a /lot/ more beefier than the old amp VTS. > >I recall having to run a separate distortion plugin into the old VTS. No > >more. > Very glad to hear you like it. I mostly play a cleanish sound > (everything at default settings) but at some point it became apparent > that even the clean tone will only work well if the amp can produce a > great hi-gain sound. > > Thanks, > Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
