From the Recabinet User guide
"Preface
All of the “cabinets” in Recabinet Vintage 2.0 (with the exception of the Green 4x12) are actually amplifier combos, consisting of tube-based preamps, poweramps, and speakers in a single enclosure. A popular approach to capturing convolution impulse responses of combos is to disconnect the preamp from the poweramp, and run the convolution test tones straight into the poweramp during impulse capture.
Kazrog has discovered, however, that the unique, timeless character of these amps is partially lost using this technique, so we instead ran the test tones straight into the preamp section via the regular guitar input jack, using a Cuniberti Reamp box to match impedance, and we ran any front controls on the combos to have flat EQ and no preamp distortion. For some combos, such as the Zodiac 2x12 and Blackface 4x10, we have included variations of the preamp voicing switches accessible from the front controls to provide more tonal variety.
All Recabinet Vintage IRs were sampled from the amp collection of Grammy Award-winning producer JJ Blair (with the exception of the Top Boost 2x12.) Thanks, JJ!"
Am I correct in thinking these are not speaker IRs at all, looking at this statement they're also capturing the full amp section as well.
Doesn't this effectively render the use of these vintage cabs kind of pointless? I mean they may well sound good but they are not actual IRs of just the speaker cabs.
"Preface
All of the “cabinets” in Recabinet Vintage 2.0 (with the exception of the Green 4x12) are actually amplifier combos, consisting of tube-based preamps, poweramps, and speakers in a single enclosure. A popular approach to capturing convolution impulse responses of combos is to disconnect the preamp from the poweramp, and run the convolution test tones straight into the poweramp during impulse capture.
Kazrog has discovered, however, that the unique, timeless character of these amps is partially lost using this technique, so we instead ran the test tones straight into the preamp section via the regular guitar input jack, using a Cuniberti Reamp box to match impedance, and we ran any front controls on the combos to have flat EQ and no preamp distortion. For some combos, such as the Zodiac 2x12 and Blackface 4x10, we have included variations of the preamp voicing switches accessible from the front controls to provide more tonal variety.
All Recabinet Vintage IRs were sampled from the amp collection of Grammy Award-winning producer JJ Blair (with the exception of the Top Boost 2x12.) Thanks, JJ!"
Am I correct in thinking these are not speaker IRs at all, looking at this statement they're also capturing the full amp section as well.
Doesn't this effectively render the use of these vintage cabs kind of pointless? I mean they may well sound good but they are not actual IRs of just the speaker cabs.
