Re: [LAU] Mixbus 32C (based on Ardour) and Reaper shootout

On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:28:50 -0400, jonetsu wrote: A sound is warm, if it provides lower middle and deep frequencies without being muddy and at the same time higher middle and high frequencies without sizzle. Assuming the source signal has got this quality, the equipment should bias the signal as less as possible. This is what I call transparent sound. Cheap gear, especially build with non-discrete circuits, but especially build with older integrated circuits make the sound less transparent, IOW the frequencies are biased with spikes and gaps. So the definition of "warmth" is not adding spikes and gaps within the frequency range. This is caused by the interaction of many factors, even the design of the conducting paths could be important. However, while even professional gear isn't perfect, it does minimal bias the signal, but the amount is that marginally, that there is no difference in mixing with the EQ of what ever expensive mixing console. If emulations of analog EQs bias the sound, then they either emulate crappy EQs or they don't emulate an EQ at all, but are just bad programmed things. Good gear doesn't bias the signal, just cheap gear does. You don't need to emulate an EQ circuit, you just need to program an EQ that does what it should do. Emulations of guitar gear are something completely different. While a mixing console should not bias the signal, guitar gear should do so. But even if you emulate your favourite wah pedal's circuit absolutely perfect, you still need the pedal that allows to use the emulated wah circuit in the same way as the original pedal. I own an Ibanez Blubber and a Behringer V-AMP LX1-X. The peal of the Behringer is that bad, that it doesn't matter if the wah effect is good or bad, since it's a PITA to use this pedal. An emulation doesn't gain much. Before we could copy software, we already could copy analog circuits. If you make a 1:1 copy of the analog circuit of a wah, we still need the pedal.