Palmer PDI-03 tone match

[shroomboss]

I just did some tone matches of the output of some of my tube heads using the unaffected signal from a Palmer speaker simulator. Pretty darn good results. This means I taken any mics or speakers out of the tone matching signal chain and just match the raw output from the head itself. Has anyone else tried this?

 

[Admin M@]

That sounds retro-cool! Post them to Axe-Change?

 

[philipacamaniac]

I just did some tone matches of the output of some of my tube heads using the unaffected signal from a Palmer speaker simulator. Pretty darn good results. This means I taken any mics or speakers out of the tone matching signal chain and just match the raw output from the head itself. Has anyone else tried this?

I did that with my Mesa Maverick's Slave Out. Made more sense to me to tonematch just the amp tone so I could experiment with different cab IRs (including a separate IR capture of the Maverick). Worked pretty well.

 

[shroomboss]

It made sense to me too. I'm going to try some additional heads and see how it goes.

 

[shroomboss]

That sounds retro-cool! Post them to Axe-Change?

Will do. I have done this with my Mesa rectifier and a bassman. The rectifier made subtle changes but makes the amp cut through the the mix better. The bassman made it much more correct to my ears.Plus now I can use cab IRs into a frfr speaker or disable the cab simulation and use an actual guitar cabinet.

 

[shroomboss]

I did that with my Mesa Maverick's Slave Out. Made more sense to me to tonematch just the amp tone so I could experiment with different cab IRs (including a separate IR capture of the Maverick). Worked pretty well.

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And now I can use cab IRs into a frfr speaker or disable the cab simulation and use an actual guitar cabinet.

 

[shroomboss]

http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=3881

Link to the tone match. Give it a try. This is a clean 1971 bassman. It can be used with a guitar cab through output 2 or to FRFR through output 1.