Fabian Rainville
Inspired
Would love to hear some opinions!
I mean....I was still floored how close that tackle box got to the amps it was emulating, all using analog solid state circuits.
Amp topology, rather than specific components, seems to be king.
I think a blind test is an excellent suggestion! He should bring in some of the top players in Nashville he plays with and see what they hear.The "tacklebox" is the analog equivalent of a first-generation modeler, i.e., Pod, V-Amp, etc. One or more stages of distortion with EQ before, between and after.
While you can get passable results the differences vs. a real tube amp become quite pronounced under even modest scrutiny.
To really capture a tube amp you need to model all the fine points like bias points, bias excursion, dynamic clipping behavior, dynamic bandwidth, dynamics, dynamics and more dynamics, output transformer behavior, speaker impedance effects, etc., etc.,etc.
While the video is interesting I doubt even a novice guitar player wouldn't be able to immediately tell the difference in a blind test.
Soooo, what you are saying is we can get "passable" dual amps in the FM3 if we are clever enough?The "tacklebox" is the analog equivalent of a first-generation modeler, i.e., Pod, V-Amp, etc. One or more stages of distortion with EQ before, between and after.
While you can get passable results the differences vs. a real tube amp become quite pronounced under even modest scrutiny.
To really capture a tube amp you need to model all the fine points like bias points, bias excursion, dynamic clipping behavior, dynamic bandwidth, dynamics, dynamics and more dynamics, output transformer behavior, speaker impedance effects, etc., etc.,etc.
While the video is interesting I doubt even a novice guitar player wouldn't be able to immediately tell the difference in a blind test.
I believe this has been spoken about, and Cliff was not interested in losing fidelity.Soooo, what you are saying is we can get "passable" dual amps in the FM3 if we are clever enough?
I watched this video earlier today and that was the first thing I thought of.
Oh, it is that simple? So I wonder how that many manufacturers that tried to built a solid state amp that could rival tube amps failed? Maybe they even succeeded but the market ignored them?
Nor should he be.I believe this has been spoken about, and Cliff was not interested in losing fidelity.
I mean....that's one of the things that jumped out at me during the into/comparison thing.But I think a lot of people look over dynamics. Attack, sustain, decay, sensitivity. Those all come across in music but can be hard to A/B compare. It's much like the adage of "you feel it more than you hear it" when you add certain styles of compression into your chain.
Oh, it is that simple? So I wonder how that many manufacturers that tried to built a solid state amp that could rival tube amps failed? Maybe they even succeeded but the market ignored them?
Pretty sure I was not asking anyone at fractal to do anything. I was just pointing out that we have the tools in the proverbial and literal box to do it ourselves if we really wanted to try.I believe this has been spoken about, and Cliff was not interested in losing fidelity.