solo-act
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Quantum is a huge update. Thanks Cliff!!!!!
Let's do a thread focused on dynamics.
My thoughts:
Compared to the awesome innovations of G2, MIMIC & G3, progress on dynamics has felt incremental. Cliff has provided many tools, and I use and like them. But they sometimes felt like bolt-on, half-solutions. I noticed it most on the stiff dynamics that come with cleans and edge-of-breakup tones. I could tame it, but I tended to lose something in the process.
I only have 3 hours on it, but I think Quantum is the dynamics innovation I've been waiting for since day one. The amplitude envelope -- attack, decay, sustain, release -- is finally fitting what my ears and hands felt with tube amps, especially on clean & edge-of-breakup. It makes sense now, musically. And it's across the board, from clean, to high gain solo, to palm mute and everything in between.
These are first observations, but I find I'm reducing db reduction in the compression block and using it in tandem with the amp like cascading compression. Or I delete completely. On drive pedals I'm pulling back drive and/or level because the desired compression/sustain is already in the amp.
The improved dynamics lets drive pedals, compression and even the player's hands to do their job better/easier. The result is killer tone/feel/sustain. And that's just the new dynamics. The hair and roar and other goodies are awesome as well.
If the Axe-Fx had a talent-boost switch for players and producers, Quantum would be it!!
Let's do a thread focused on dynamics.
My thoughts:
Compared to the awesome innovations of G2, MIMIC & G3, progress on dynamics has felt incremental. Cliff has provided many tools, and I use and like them. But they sometimes felt like bolt-on, half-solutions. I noticed it most on the stiff dynamics that come with cleans and edge-of-breakup tones. I could tame it, but I tended to lose something in the process.
I only have 3 hours on it, but I think Quantum is the dynamics innovation I've been waiting for since day one. The amplitude envelope -- attack, decay, sustain, release -- is finally fitting what my ears and hands felt with tube amps, especially on clean & edge-of-breakup. It makes sense now, musically. And it's across the board, from clean, to high gain solo, to palm mute and everything in between.
These are first observations, but I find I'm reducing db reduction in the compression block and using it in tandem with the amp like cascading compression. Or I delete completely. On drive pedals I'm pulling back drive and/or level because the desired compression/sustain is already in the amp.
The improved dynamics lets drive pedals, compression and even the player's hands to do their job better/easier. The result is killer tone/feel/sustain. And that's just the new dynamics. The hair and roar and other goodies are awesome as well.
If the Axe-Fx had a talent-boost switch for players and producers, Quantum would be it!!
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