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Re: (TV) fripp and bill
At 7:52 AM -0800 1/6/06, Martin McClellan wrote:
Maurice (or anybody)--have you checked out Guitar Rig?
No. I should try the demo, but considering my investment in
Ableton's Live (having bought a copy, that is, not as an investor in
the company or anything), I'm going to keep using that.
I'm naturally leery of digital effects, but I keep hearing
interesting things about it. Sadly, a downloaded demo won't work on
my machine with my cheap audio input device (works fine in Garage
Band!).
Weird. I wonder what GR's doing that doesn't like your input device.
Are you using a USB dongle? GR might require more bandwidth, maybe.
I'm awaiting that time where digital modeling really can give you
all those sweet tubes without the expense or trouble. It's coming,
but are we there yet?
I think a lot of what people think of as "tube sound" is actually a
combination of tubes, transformers (very important, and often
overlooked), and the speaker cone, all of which have their own
nonlinearities. I've not heard any amp modeling I really liked,
other than as an "effect" ("wow, this really *does* kind of sound
like a guitar through a 1" transistor radio speaker!") but then I've
not tried the latest Amplitube (isn't that the one with the offensive
ad campaign?) or Guitar Rig. I've heard good things about both, but
hearing the actual plug-in/program is the real test.
Even "tube" gear can be lousy, btw--there's a lot of awful
starved-plate stuff on the market, which gives you a caricature of
what tubes sound like. While these days I'm usually going direct to
the laptop and out to the PA, I'm using the EH LPB2ube (dumb name) as
my preamp, cascading both channels into one. It's a pretty good
sounding little box--better than any of the plugins I've
tried--though it suffers from EH's legendarily shoddy build quality.
(One little, easily-loosened screw holds the circuit board just off
the chassis, a fact which I discovered when that chassis went live
with 300V right before a live radio broadcast. Ouch.)
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Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/ | http://onezeromusic.com/
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