You Guys/Gals Are in for Another Treat

[wulftone]

Hi Cliff,

You're really getting good at describing the nuances of sound!
Looking forward to hearing those rocks rubbing together
Thanks for all your work.
Pauly

But he didn't indicate what grit of sandpaper he's hearing. 30 grit sounds a lot different than 1000 grit . And really, two rocks rubbing together is still basically sandpaper, it's just more like 0.1 grit, lol! So is cygnus going to have a "Grit" parameter so we can tune the size of our rocks?

That's what I'd call "hard rock".

 

[celongcor]

Butt Chugging’ Allegations At University Of Tennessee Fraternity Lead To Reforms

Well, at least it’s better than nu... ah, never mind. I am a child...

 

[boyedav]

But he didn't indicate what grit of sandpaper he's hearing. 30 grit sounds a lot different than 1000 grit . And really, two rocks rubbing together is still basically sandpaper, it's just more like 0.1 grit, lol! So is cygnus going to have a "Grit" parameter so we can tune the size of our rocks?

That's what I'd call "hard rock".

That pre-war Yugo 80 grit is my favorite. I'll use current production sandpaper if I have to, but I still keep an eye out for NOS/ANOS made on 60s and 70s tooling.

 

[SteveW]

Please Cliff, I have a 9mm stone soon to be lasered out of my kidney. Give me a sliver of happiness before I hit the OR and get stented again.

That's one bigass stone! You ain't peeing that one out....lol

 

[Bruce Sokolovic]

That's one bigass stone! You ain't peeing that one out....lol

You ain’t kidding. Getting the laser up the one eye in a couple weeks. Thinking maybe this new firmware chugs so hard it’ll break the stone up and I can forget about the surgery!

 

[SteveW]

One can hope eh! Lol

 

[normanaj]

Will this update also bring updates to the factory presets or will they just jive better with the improvements made to the amps?

 

[Randalljax]

I am very excited about this release, but given what Cliff wrote there I have no expectation that we'll see it on Friday.

ya probably a few weeks out

 

[Tom Morris]

Bruce Sokolovic The procedure really isn't that bad. The bad part is when you wake up and they tell you you cant go home till you piss. And hey the drugs are good! But feel for you brother the agony FML.

 

[yyz67]

@Bruce Sokolovic , you'll need to make a celebratory Cygnus preset called Sokolovic's Stone or Laser Up The One-Eye.

 

[TG3K]

@Bruce Sokolovic...Sokolovic's Stone or Laser Up The One-Eye.

Both of those would make excellent band names, too.

 

[lp59]

But he didn't indicate what grit of sandpaper he's hearing. 30 grit sounds a lot different than 1000 grit . And really, two rocks rubbing together is still basically sandpaper, it's just more like 0.1 grit, lol! So is cygnus going to have a "Grit" parameter so we can tune the size of our rocks?

That's what I'd call "hard rock".

We already have it in the “Two Rocks” amps!

 

[ak301]

After Ares is Cygnus.

After Cygnus will be Dionysus.

But what happened to By-Tor?

He's out in the snow playing with the dog

 

[kplooksafterme]

I'm very excited for this, but can't see it being mere days before it comes out. More like weeks, based on what Cliff said.

 

[ak301]

I'm very excited for this, but can't see it being mere days before it comes out. More like weeks, based on what Cliff said.

Yeah, sounds like a massive re-working of the architecture.

Patience folks

 

[RDH]

Bruce Sokolovic The procedure really isn't that bad. The bad part is when you wake up and they tell you you cant go home till you piss. And hey the drugs are good! But feel for you brother the agony FML.

That’s when you cry till it drips of your wizzer and tell them you were able to pee.

 

[My name is mud]

Yeah, sounds like a massive re-working of the architecture.

Patience folks

I don’t know which consequences will it have in our presets . If we really need to redo everything. Will see . I spent so much time tweaking them...

 

[Reaper]

Chit happens...

 

[Budda]

I'm not playing one more note until I get this update.

You have a child under the age of 1 too?

 

[Øutsider]

I'm working on it. Every amp model needs to be reentered. Lot of work. So far it is sounding fantastic. It's hard to keep focused as I get distracted playing.

It can be a bit shocking at first. Those "vintagey" amps are quite a bit different in some cases. Spitty, gnarly, nasty, angry sounding. The "polished" sound is gone. The low end is tighter. High gain amps growl and chug with a vocal quality. Medium gain amps purr like a big cat. Low gain amps sound big and chimey.

The whole impetus for this was I was doing some critical listening and I noticed that certain amp models didn't have the same distortion "texture" as the real amp. The amps sounded like rubbing two rocks together while the models sounded more like sandpaper. There was also a vocal quality. The amps went "chug, chug, yowwwwww" while the models went "chit, chit, yeeeeee". That led to a complete rewrite of the preamp algorithms. What I learned from that I applied to improvements in the power amp algorithms.

This is a man that has figured out what color the number seven smells like.