On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 22:56 +0200, hermann meyer wrote: > why musicians could prefer the digital way, if at least the end up in > a digital media.
When recording a guitar at midnight in a rental apartment I play my guitar directly connected to the mixing console, resp. some preamplification is better before using the mixer. Sometimes amp and speaker simulations can be used, but often they are too sluggish. EQs digital or analog) and early reflections (digital) often are more promising. I'm not against digital gear for guitars, OTOH tube gear has some advantages and even analog transistor gear. I mentioned the Boss Sustainer and Turbo Overdrive. Both effects can be done digital too, but the advantage when using those effects is, that you automatically get a preamp. The Hughes & Kettner tube preamp is much better. At home we usually can not record a guitar amp, in a studio we can do. A flight simulator is good to practise flying, but if you want to travel, you need to use a real plane. There is nothing like a tube emulation. You can not use a mixer or sound card input with a completely different responding quality and frequency response than those provided by tubes and Celestion speakers and use an algorithm to simulate something that is missing. It's possible to handle the frequencies, when there are only frequencies to cut, but impossible to emulate a missing responding quality. For guitar the simulations are to sluggish, the responding quality of the sound cards or mixers are different to those of tube amps. Regarding the tube microphone emulation, "let your Sure mic sound like a Neuman or Brauner", it's not only the tube, but much more the missing frequency response of the capsule. On Sun, 2014-08-24 at 22:53 +0100, James Morris wrote: > Bring out the pitchforks, someone dares to not keep up with the times, > burn him at the stake! You are missing the context. I'm pro old equipment, but against equipment that tries to fake vintage gear, claiming to use modern methods, while it even doesn't use the available algorithms. And again, you can simulate a flight, but you can't travel using a flight simulator. IOW if you know what to do, you can provide digital EQs and things like that, but you can not provide preamp and amp simulation, when the preamp from the mixer or sound card simply can not do what's needed for guitar. Perhaps you noticed that one of the threads is about pickups and the different sound, when using a guitar amp and when using other gear. I'm not a bonehead, I simply confront you with the technical facts. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev