25 Oct
2002
25 Oct
'02
6:20 p.m.
Steve Harris wrote:
i put in a music-dsp shaper (archive credits patrice tarrabia
and bram) after the inverter, and with some eq (hp basically)
before entering the first valve, it sounds surprisingly good.
especially with the bridge pickup, the neck pickup is still a
bit muddy.
after some more tinkering, i guess you're right. for some
reason, guitar notes die away very quickly with this setup.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 05:32:22 +0200, Tim Goetze
wrote:
Nope, that would be hard ;) I was thinking of having a second, hard
clipping alg. and bringing that in for high ampltudes.
oh yes, please keep on bringing them on.
I suspect
this dip is some kind of reflection from the limit, but I can't
tell without trying one.
you mean you intend to change valve to have adjustable
slope where it compresses? sounds good, if that is what
you mean. in ->
valve -> invert -> valve -> convolver -> out
setup and it's beginning to sound like fairly good
distortion when the input signal is strong enough.
aliasing is very, very faint, with both valves set
for maximum saturation (and "character" = 1.). could
use some more saturation/clipping though.
Yes. Its not really meant to be distortion at that level, more of a
saturation thing. I usually put something hard in the middle (near the
inverter, a cliper or sinus wavewrapper, something like that. Probably
wont make a good guitar sound though. clipping is
too strong at low input levels. it seems to
adapt the clipping level to the input level. i think that
It doesn't. there are no time domain effects, and it doesn't adapt to
amplitude - just a static trasfer function. It could be an interrelation
with the two valves, but I dont think so... Try turning down some of the parameters. You wont get
good, hard
distortion out of the valves, more of a natural warmth.
yep, you've managed that quite well. in fact the whole thing
is slowly getting close to what i expect from a decent amp.
there are three issues for me with the current setup:
* it doesn't noticeably prolong sustain.
* the attack phase is 'flat', compared to the ringing
of the real thing.
* the sound gets muddy and faint when you turn down the
volume at the instrument, instead of keeping loudness and
reducing distortion.
i suppose that these could all be improved by applying the
right sort of compression. i've done fairly quick tests with
applying gain before the first valve, and with the new
compressor from your set. the gain fails miserably, and i
can't seem to find the right setting and position for the
compressor.
tim