In a traditional tube amp system, the guitar cable itself acts as a capacitor in the signal chain between the guitar's pickup and the amp's pre-amp stage (along with stomp boxes, etc ahead of the amp). This impacts the response characteristics of the pre-amp stage, etc.
IGNORING the resonance / eq / filter effects of the guitar cable's capacitance on the actual transmitted signal, does the AXE-FX model the interaction of being presented with different capacitances at the input jack and how the pre-amp stage responds to these variations?
It would seem the answer is "NO", since I'm assuming the input signal immediately undergoes the A/D conversion as soon as it enters the AXE-FX and that's why Cliff was gracious enough to provide us a plethora of pre-amp / amp adjustments. However, I was curious as to what the real answer is.
I'm a mechanical engineer by trade and my EE is a little rusty. This it the kind of crap I think about on my day off of work and I'm looking at buying a new guitar cable. Sorry, it's a curse; it drives my wife crazy !
Thanks in advance.
IGNORING the resonance / eq / filter effects of the guitar cable's capacitance on the actual transmitted signal, does the AXE-FX model the interaction of being presented with different capacitances at the input jack and how the pre-amp stage responds to these variations?
It would seem the answer is "NO", since I'm assuming the input signal immediately undergoes the A/D conversion as soon as it enters the AXE-FX and that's why Cliff was gracious enough to provide us a plethora of pre-amp / amp adjustments. However, I was curious as to what the real answer is.
I'm a mechanical engineer by trade and my EE is a little rusty. This it the kind of crap I think about on my day off of work and I'm looking at buying a new guitar cable. Sorry, it's a curse; it drives my wife crazy !
Thanks in advance.