Re: Tube? Here's a challenge, try it!!!

"Jeff Thompson" <jeffDOTthompsonATninthwaveDOTus@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> I was thinking about it and in a way you are right it is the air or lack
> of it.
>
> The modeling of speaker set ups is good but it doesn't model the dynamic
> of the speaker moving through air. At different frequencies the response
> time of the speaker changes and if the speaker is in play there is a
> reaction time due to the air moving around the speaker.
>
> Also there is a lack of ambient space in the modelers, thoug for recording
> it really depends on how you are miking a guitar amp on how that translate
> on the recorded track.
>
> But I think their sounds are now up to snuff. As I said before I have a
> Flextone II, I got mainly to switch sounds quickly. I like it much better
> than my POD because of the speaker in it.
>
I think the cab emulator thingies do do their best to mimic the changes.
It shouldn't be that easy either. Speakers have variable impedance; if you
have an 8-ohm speaker, once it hits a low note for instance, what happens?
The coil is extended away from the magnet. Doing what, electrically? Yep,
the impedance drops dramatically.

So all the time the speaker coil moves, the impedance fluctuates. That's why
it's called 'nominal' impedance when they say what impedance a speaker is.

Biggest reason for blowing your home stereo speakers? When you play too
loud, the speakers 'pump' which makes their impedance drop dramatically at
the heighth of the coil movement > the home amp can't supply enough power at
low impedance and generates clipping distortion > the coil burns.

Guitar speakers are built to easily withstand lots of clipping sine wave
sound.

But anyways, I always figured the reason speaker modelers lack some of the
speaker 'liveliness' is because in reality the listener is anything but
perfectly situated towards the speaker. Their head moves etc. when playing.
This in turn makes the sound dramatically different.

www.kuas.net/joululaulu.mp3 - this kind of 'reactiveness' and air is really
hard to get with amp/speaker emulators.

I spent over ten years every day tweaking my sounds whenever I practiced.
Sound is such a subjective thing; what sounds great one day sounds horrid
the next.
I just noticed, that even if one day I didn't like my sound at all, the next
day I played it it sounded absolutely great. With no changes in settings.
So I quit messing with the settings. These days all I almost ever use for
tone changes is my guitar and the input/output gain levels, once I decide
what is the right bass/treble/presence etc. amount for this amp/guitar
setup.

Because it's no use...it will sound different in my ears every day anyway.




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