sumitagarwal
Inspired
I agree with this. Like many things with guitar its about nailing a particular "moment" in guitar. See also: cranking Master Volume to sound more like a time before separately adjustable preamp gain.
I agree with this. Like many things with guitar its about nailing a particular "moment" in guitar. See also: cranking Master Volume to sound more like a time before separately adjustable preamp gain.
but there's not necessarily just one answer (though wrt the answer stated above, I'd suggest the guitar gear world is full of "emulated compromises", some of which are even quite iconic) - another answer is to address all those who want true isolated / stand alone power amp emulations in a modeller to match with their fav externally connected real preamps (ie rack preamps, pedal preamps, amp head preamps ...) - hence why this is a perfectly valid wish. Are there challenges (maybe barriers) to accomplishing it? Appearently yes - but that does not mean the wish is without merit.
Indeed it's perfectly fine wish, but I'd rather Fractal focus their limited resources on other things.
Not really. The OP said "PEQ or effects"...
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again, can't help but wonder why this is constantly stated in response to this specific and quite valid wish, as if, in this particular case, the wish is somehow invalid because of some challenges related to IP protection - no goal is without challenge - doesn't mean it's any more or less valid than any other ungranted wish for whatever reasons.
I don't get "your wish is invalid" out of that.
Do you have a link to those posts? Just curious.
Funny, I just spent 5+ minutes trying different searches and I could not find them...
I also remember him posting exactly that, i.e., that splitting preamp and power amp would make it easier to reverse-engineer the Fractal "secret sauce", so it would never happen.
I've had conversations with Cliff about this way back when the Ultra came out, as I've always used a variety of tube preamps with my Axes (as well as the full models post Cygnus), and desired pure tube power amp sims for them.
Agreed, "invalid" is maybe too strong, but "don't hold your breath" is too weak, imo, to describe the tone I've often heard on this subject - more like: "it's not happening due to IP so should be discussed no further" (repeated adnauseam though no one can ever seem to find the specific reference). This wish seems worth some discussion, certainly no less in relation to many other not-happening wishes (personally, I've been curious forever about why IP is appearently an issue wrt a "preamp off" feature even though we have "power amp off" - I suspect there is a valid related reason since its a fairly universal restriction in modelling, just never been able to get any sense lf what the general reasoning is).
For my external preamps that I want in Axfx and out to SS FRFR I use the "Tube Pre" amp model with tweaks to the P.A. section - not perfect but pretty good - a "preamp off" button would be better.
