On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 12:47:53 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: > the neck, usually placed exactly where the second octave is on > an over-sized fretboard, has far less dominant harmonics than
Cheers, I really should learn how to play the thing sometime. > >> * the attack phase is 'flat', compared to the ringing > >> of the real thing. > > > >OK... could this be a property of the cliping? Or is it always there? > > always. i think it might be because a real valve amp sort of > 'spreads the excess power' by turning the wave into almost > square at this point, where the guitar signal carries a lot of > energy. more of a limiter effect, right? Maybe, or maybe the valve reacts to transients in some way - that could partly be a side effect of the HP filter, emphasised by some valve effect we haven't modelled yet. > i just tried it before the first valve and it does help a > good deal to have a better attack [in fact i got carried > away strumming a funk pattern, a first time for playing the > guitar through the box], but i'm slowly running out of cpu. OK, the CPU problems can be improved. Looking at the rectifier I haven't really optimised it at all. Do you have a feel for whether it should be faster or slower? - Steve
