By the above I'm assuming you got 18.04 sounding good for you !!! super if that's the case. I have no idea what might've gone wrong I have always just updated FW never bothered with reset system params any of that.
Yeah, it's sounding good enough to where it's workable and completely "acceptable" now. Not that it wasn't acceptable before, but when I tell you it sounded like everything just tanked and crapped the bed, I'm not kidding you.
Glad your back on track Dan. That boxy low mid sound is exactly what I've got. I'll try again tonight.
Me too...looking forward to diving into this. Had a client cancel on me tonight so I'm going to be working things out. I do have a tip for you, JT. I'm not sure you will need this...but I am noticing a few things I *may* have to do if I wan to stick with my old sound. I'm kinda digging what the new sound is doing a bit more...it has more body in a good way. But to revert totally back to my sound....this is what I had to do.
On amp settings:
Basic tab, input trim-1.200. This is where I lost some of my gain...if you find you do also, increase here a bit. Default is 1.000. It used to be 1.200 which is where I've always kept mine. The "presence seems a bit different. My old default was 4.00. It's now reverting to 2.47. I like this as it is not as abrasive.
Dynamics tab: supply sag 2.0, CF Comp 10.0. These really tighten up the tone for me in a good way. But again, leaving them at the new defaults after s system reset is a good thing...it just sounds different.
Other tab: Set modern to vintage. However, I'm liking modern now and getting used to it.
Setting the above options got me to the point where I'm happy with the old tone. Leaving everything alone and just messing with adding a little more gain makes the new sound workable for me. A few little tweaks and it will be perfect. I say 25 minutes tops and I'll be as happy or happier than I was with version 17.04
That's good news! Did you try the Brit800 and Brit800 mod?
Yeah, I'm using them right now. Everything I mentioned above was in regards to Brit800 mod. I know the settings I gave are probably exclusive to that amp, but I wanted to at least mention what I did in case it helps anyone else.
That's good to hear but at the same time puzzling. It is starting to look like the key is doing the System Reset.
Yeah I thought the same, Cliff. Then again, I've never done a reset like this before....so maybe it cleared some stuff out that didn't need to be there. While I have you here, I was wondering if you could answer a question for me? That "crunch" option we have....it's brilliant how much that emulates tubes in this FW version for me. My question is....is there a way to allow that to be used excessively while NOT allowing it to add the high end it adds to our tones? Let me try to explain better...
That option in my opinion, is a key part of the tone stack as far as tubes go. But when we use a lot of it we get two artifacts:
1. The tone dies out
2. The tone gets bright
Can we make it so it saturates like it does, yet we stop it from dieing out and have the ability to control the amount of brightness we get from excessive use of crunch? The dieing out part....I get it...it sort of simulates that starved plate thing...so maybe that can't be changed. But, the brightness that comes out....if we could control or stop that from happening, I seriously don't think I could tell I wasn't using 12AX7's. We're so close now I barely can tell.
The tube rigs I have here all seem to sound warmer at that break-up point. While your emulation breaks up perfectly, it seems to add some brightness that in certain cases, can be abrasive. Am I explaining this right to where you understand what I mean? All my saturated 12AX7 pre's seem to get warmer as they saturate...which to me makes the tube sound more apparent. Our "Crunch" doesn't warm up as it saturates, it gets a little grainy/high endy. Would it be possible having it take the brittleness away as it saturated instead of the increased high end?
Good to hear Danny!
Whew yeah...I'm really glad it changed for the better. Thanks!