Don't Overlook Smoothing

[Dave Merrill]

Not-so-secret weapon. Smoothing is the finishing touch for a lot of my presets. One of my favorite features to get tones cooking on in-ears, especially!

@Cooper Carter, by finishing touch, do you mean you adjust it after you've tweaked the amp and drives and cab (s)?

 

[Jozsef Kiss]

Not-so-secret weapon. Smoothing is the finishing touch for a lot of my presets. One of my favorite features to get tones cooking on in-ears, especially!

To what extent should Smoothing be?
6-7-8-9-?
Unfortunately, my ear stops at 6500 Hz.
I can't hear the difference!
Thanks for the reply!

 

[RevDrucifer]

@Cooper Carter, by finishing touch, do you mean you adjust it after you've tweaked the amp and drives and cab (s)?

That’s certainly how I go about it. Once I’ve gotten pretty much where I want to go, I’ll usually tweak the Smoothing just to see it’s going to ’open things up’ a little more. With certain cabs it just seems like I’m adding in some nasty treble, with others it’ll open the tone right up.

 

[mr_fender]

Smoothing makes the tone more unfiltered, raw, and direct sounding. Works great for that little extra punch in the eardrums for live tones in particular. It's the IR's response curve that gets smoothed out, so the end result is often somewhat ironically less smooth sounding and more cutting.

 

[javajunkie]

Someone finally found it.

I've been using that since you put it in. Love it.

 

[Cooper Carter]

@Cooper Carter, by finishing touch, do you mean you adjust it after you've tweaked the amp and drives and cab (s)?

Sometimes I'll reach for it while I'm building out a tone, but most often if I end up using it, it's as a finishing touch after everything is done. I like to see what it adds after I'm done. Sometimes I keep it, sometimes I don't. But it can really help a tone sit nicely.

 

[RiffDuck]

Son of a mother duck. I just discovered smoothing today. I try not to mess with cabinet parameters, but this is an absolute game changer to me. I've been battling with EQing out that IR "ness" that many of them have since I first got the axe, and this just up and removes it for me free of charge.

This parameter needs to be shouted from the rooftops regularly.

 

[Akeron]

I wonder why that parameter is not present in the FM3. Too much work for the CPU?

 

[DropDee]

bump

 

[Chromatizm]

I wonder why that parameter is not present in the FM3. Too much work for the CPU?

Isn't it some kind of eq?

 

[Akeron]

I have no idea how that works technically, but it must be something like the first rule of Fight Club. They don't talk about that It's probably some eq anyway, that's why I was asking why it's not in the FM3

 

[AlGrenadine]

Isn't it some kind of eq?

no, it's a smoothing of the IR's curve

 

[Joshua_L]

as an fm3 user I would like to have that option in cablab4, even if it’s an in app purchase.

 

[yek]

as an fm3 user I would like to have that option in cablab4, even if it’s an in app purchase.

It's already in Cab-Lab.

 

[Joshua_L]

It's already in Cab-Lab.

I don’t see such a thing in cablab4.
Not in the main window, not in the zoom or the align as well.

 

[yek]

Sorry, I overlooked that smoothing is not available in CL4 (it was in CL 3).

 

[DropDee]

It would be awesome to have the opportunity to use smoothing as FM3 user. I can't find a way to download Cab Lab 3 anywhere and for me, it is currently not possible to use this feature which is sad as this feature seems to be really handy.

 

[State of Epicicity]

The best way to see what smoothing does is to open the align tab of the cab block. Keep that open on Axe-Edit while you adjust smoothing on the front panel.

 

[fuzzydude]

The best way to see what smoothing does is to open the align tab of the cab block. Keep that open on Axe-Edit while you adjust smoothing on the front panel.

Nice trick!

 

[Chromatizm]

The best way to see what smoothing does is to open the align tab of the cab block. Keep that open on Axe-Edit while you adjust smoothing on the front panel.

No can do, don't have the axe3