24 Aug
2014
24 Aug
'14
8:46 p.m.
On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 20:23 +0200, hermann meyer wrote:
Am 24.08.2014 19:43, schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
Winfried Knobloch "Röhrentechnik ganz modern" Pflaum Verlag München ISBN
3-7905-0660-5. IIRC around 20 years ago a former friend released some
notes about this topic in the VDT-Magazin, IIRC he at least has given a
talk at a Tonmeistertagung about it. Anyway, I experienced that
recording an e. guitar from an elCheapo transistor amp with an elCheapo
microphone at low volumes (when living in a rental apartment) always
sounds better, than tube amp and speaker emulations, just the Hughes &
Kettner tube preamp was amazing, when connecting the guitar directly to
the mixer. Guitarix and all proprietary simulations sometimes can be
used, but usually even a Boss CS-3 or Boss OD-2, a parametric EQ
provided by the mixer and e.g. a SPX90II early reflection already beats
Zoom, Guitarix and friends. YMMV! Why are Marshall stacks not replaced
by Zoom, Guitarix and friends directly connected to the PA?
This
on the other hand reminds me of Jerry Bruckheimer and Co.'s scientific
soaps. An observation camera shows somebody from behind and the digital
forensics guys use an algorithm that calculates the view showing the
face of the person, whose face wasn't recorded. Preparing an eggplant is
easy to do, handling algorithms faking abilities also is easy to do.
That just
shows you will, and I mean you will, not you could,
never understand the scientific behind tube emulation, and modular
emulation of hardware gear.