CudBucket said:
I'm not clear on whether the change in v9 affects all or just some amp sims. After I loaded v9, my IIC+ and Mark IV sims sound like they have less gain and dynamics. It seems after reading the release notes that only the "cold biased" change would affect these sims.
Dave
I was initially disappointed with this update. My beloved ( :lol: ) Mark IV patch also had less gain and seemed kind of flat. A bit watered down and just not sounding as good as before. The change is in the power amp modeling. I turned the Amp sim's Master up a little bit more than where I had it (from 3.23 to 3.50) and it came alive (I of course turned the patch's overall level down to compensate for the increase in volume from turning the Master up). The gain was back and sounded very rich, dynamic (relatively speaking considering how much gain I use
) and 3-D, even better than before. I can really tell a difference when digging in on single notes, especially high up on the neck.
Turning up the Master any more on that patch used to just make it sound muddy to my ears, but not now. I think I played that one patch for 3 hours straight last night after I re-tweaked because it sounded
so good.
So to start, you might try turning it up about .25, and see if that doesn't give your patches a good kick.
EDIT- To my ears, the USA Lead amp sim's tone controls seemed unaffected by the taper change. I tried turning the Bass, Mid, & Treble up/down one degree across the board (I was assuming if they were changed, they would be all changed by the same amount), and also one at a time. Where I already had them set originally just sounded "right", where as I didn't think it sounded as good when altered them.