Liquid22
Inspired
Hi erveryone
More or less by accident I stumbled today over this and it brings up two questions about which amps get modelled:
It started with the FW 5 beta Thread and a post “What is a cathode follower”. Chris brought a link up where the cathode follower is kind of explained on a Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister. https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/axe-fx-iii-firmware-version-5-00-beta.148607/page-2
There you can read the TubeMeister “There’s something special going on inside these housings, and you can hear it as soon as you power up, plug in, and wail away. […] The zesty flavor of tone the cathode follower delivers results in an amp that’s a pretty awesome combination of old and new – a time-tested guitar amplifier circuit, the cathode follower, paired with a tube-driven power amp […]
That sounded (commercial like) BUT interesting and I searched for sound samples: i.e.
For a Marshall-Guy like me, I was kind of surprised about that Amp-Sound and to be honest I really liked it. And instantly I wanted to try a H&K Amp on the Axe (hoping also for a miracle that a TubeMeister is already in there).
So I went through all the Axe III Amp Models and was surprise that I didn’t find one single Hughes & Kettner Amp.
Then I saw a Forum Thread -- Wish List: New Amps. https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/wish-list-new-amps.137944/ Only one wish for a Hughes & Kettner Amp was there and all over the place many wishes for Amps of Brands we already have.
To the point now:
First:
I thought Hughes & Kettner is a well-known and huge brand and there for some users already requested those amps for years. Can anyone explain, why those Amps are so rarely wanted here in the Forum / by users? Is there maybe another kind of amp that already sounds kind of similar (like the Friedmans and Plexis) or something like that? Is it just because Cliff doesn’t own one he could model? Or....
Second:
I mean I’m more that happy about the huge amount of all the great Marshall amps on the Axe, so there’s nothing more I could wish for. But still, in general: Does Cliff ever mentioned why the focus on the modelled amps lies on a “smaller” group of brands and not on the goal to first modelling a wider range of amp-brands and then later go into specific models of a brand? Or did it just come like it is today without any strict plan?
Cheers
Liquid
More or less by accident I stumbled today over this and it brings up two questions about which amps get modelled:
It started with the FW 5 beta Thread and a post “What is a cathode follower”. Chris brought a link up where the cathode follower is kind of explained on a Hughes & Kettner TubeMeister. https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/axe-fx-iii-firmware-version-5-00-beta.148607/page-2
There you can read the TubeMeister “There’s something special going on inside these housings, and you can hear it as soon as you power up, plug in, and wail away. […] The zesty flavor of tone the cathode follower delivers results in an amp that’s a pretty awesome combination of old and new – a time-tested guitar amplifier circuit, the cathode follower, paired with a tube-driven power amp […]
That sounded (commercial like) BUT interesting and I searched for sound samples: i.e.
For a Marshall-Guy like me, I was kind of surprised about that Amp-Sound and to be honest I really liked it. And instantly I wanted to try a H&K Amp on the Axe (hoping also for a miracle that a TubeMeister is already in there).
So I went through all the Axe III Amp Models and was surprise that I didn’t find one single Hughes & Kettner Amp.
Then I saw a Forum Thread -- Wish List: New Amps. https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/wish-list-new-amps.137944/ Only one wish for a Hughes & Kettner Amp was there and all over the place many wishes for Amps of Brands we already have.
To the point now:
First:
I thought Hughes & Kettner is a well-known and huge brand and there for some users already requested those amps for years. Can anyone explain, why those Amps are so rarely wanted here in the Forum / by users? Is there maybe another kind of amp that already sounds kind of similar (like the Friedmans and Plexis) or something like that? Is it just because Cliff doesn’t own one he could model? Or....
Second:
I mean I’m more that happy about the huge amount of all the great Marshall amps on the Axe, so there’s nothing more I could wish for. But still, in general: Does Cliff ever mentioned why the focus on the modelled amps lies on a “smaller” group of brands and not on the goal to first modelling a wider range of amp-brands and then later go into specific models of a brand? Or did it just come like it is today without any strict plan?
Cheers
Liquid