On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Brett McCoy <idragosani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Amp modeling is really big (using Amplitube, Line 6 hardware or even > guitarix), you can get pretty good sounds out of that. Amp modeling > played through a tube amp and miked gives you the best of both > worlds... more control over your tone and the warm tube-y sound. While I don't want to argue the quality or a matter of preference or the exact implementation--I completely disagree with the principle! Amp modeling software should take the place of using tube amps in the first place. The filtering and non-linear qualities of the amp being modeled are what you want to reproduce, not the noise, or the transformers' hum. The notion of creating amp modeling software/hardware is to reduce costs compared to keeping a ton of different amps for just the right tone, per application. I think the most efficient thing to do is to introduce the characteristic distortion and filtering you want by a processor. So, you should run the processed sound through an amp that has very clean, low distortion characteristics (would be nice if such hardware/software had capability to analyze the output of the amplifier in use... one can dream... or design it). That said... nothing sounds like a tube amp, quite like a tube amp :) Amp modeling software doesn't take the place of tube amps in every application. Just watch out for the audiophile hocus-pocus that comes with comparing amplifiers to each other. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
