Studiomanrichard
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So by change changing tube types with an amp and cab block only, there probably won't be a noticeable differance?
It's not like other products where there is a huge change in frequency response. It's realistic and, therefore, subtle. Other products drastically change their frequency response when switching "tubes" but that's simply not realistic.
Two gigs this week on the beta. Sounds great!
Using a shiver LD with El34s for lower gain and another patch with a shiver LD with 6l6 (the default) for higher gain tones. Great differences in feel and tone. Especially the differences in the low end.
I'm endorsed by Bogner, I'm curious that the shiver LD is based of the 20th anniversary. They usually have kt88s in the 20th. My shiva 20th got custom built with EL34s. The AxeFx sounds scary close.
With all the tube types it seems like we would hear something
Re - Tube types in Shiver - I went to swap out the Shiva Anniversary "Shiver Clean" tubes from the Anni's KT-88's but They were already 6L6's. Perhaps this was done purposely?? (The 6L6 Shiva has the sweetest cleans IMHO) or is it possible that some of the tube types as they are set in 12.04b are not 100% accurate to the modeled amplifiers??
In any case, I meant to be 3 or 4 minutes but again got side tracked by how awesome the Shiver Clean (just the latest 12.04b amp audition) sounded after pumping the MV to 8-ish / kicking up the LF - swapped out the DRV to BB Pre (where / when engaged) set@ 3.0 Drive and 35% mix with a bump on the level - and it was an hour plus of pure tonejoyment. I have not yet been able to just check something real quick on 12.04b without a segue into finding more great tones in this new FW - Luvinit
I have noticed a subtle difference but can't put my finger on what I'm hearing.
i agree, I was a huge tube swapper back in the day. We have to remember in the real world it may take a few minutes to wait for the tubes to cool and swap them in and out. Your brain would have a rough time doing any real comparison unlike the AxeFx which is instant. I've already been guilty of the phantom improvement even on the AxeFx. I was flipping through tubes noticing all the subtle changes and then realized i was editing the wrong amp block which was muted... lol. It happens to everyone.
Seems to me if you wanted to mimic the effect of a tube swap in the real world on the Axe then you would also have to change the bias (could be somewhat random as different tubes have different characteristics, even of the same type) & also the transformer match due to the different plate impedance of different tube types. Am I in the ballpark or way off base here? I have no idea what you should change the transformer match value to though...