Re: [linux-audio-dev] [ann] caps-0.3.0

Hello Tim, A couple of concerns with your guitar related plugs: Speaking about the compile flags you use for caps -O6 does nothing more than -O3 and from -O2 upwards there's no need to specify "-funroll-loops", also -O3 often bloats the generated code unecessairly making it slower than -O2 AFAIK. Why introduce PSU emulation (not that it's a bad thing in itself) when you're still not simulating what makes a guitar sound sweet, namely output valves? I've been looking at the source code and it seems you're just simulating a single 12AX7 preamp having weird tone stacks... In reality I've never seen something like that in other than valve based distorion/pedeal boosters... It would be cool to have amps based on real good sounding amps models where you have different preamp stages with the tone stack placed at different gain stages, or more simply preamp voicings, like say the difference you find between fender, marshall, vox,mesa boggie and soldano preamps sections, and then model the output stage with the same valves arrangements and data from the actual valves like say EL34 for marshalls and 6L6 for fender/mesa/vox/soldano/whatever... It is in the output section valves that the real "juice" comes out in a real amp, and it's the place where the different valve types and arrangements can make a huge difference, like class a vs cass ab, single ended vs parallel and push pull... I quickly gave a try to AmpV and AmpIV using a DI box, and had issues with the gain settings of those plugins, the more I rise the knob the more it gives me a farty distortion up to the point where the sounds disappears completely. I've tried this with gcc 3.2 and gcc 4.0.2. The new cab sims sound much better than the older models though, nice job you did there! Due to frustration with free as in freedom guitar amp sims, I recently bought one of those http://www.behringer.com/LX1-PRO/index.cfm?lang=ENG, it's a pity there's nothing even coming close to it in the free world up to now :( Cherrs, -Giuseppe 2006/1/11, Tim Goetze <tim(a)quitte.de>de>: