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Low wattage tube amps exist.
Low wattage is still too loud for home / apartment. You need something in the milliwatt range, and those are (unfortunately) very rare. They’re not too hard to make but there is some extra expense and there are some patents in that territory.
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> The most popular guitar amps now are all solid state Maybe on the low end of the market, but tube amps still reign supreme for most serious players.
Yeah I didn’t get this statement. I only play tube amps, and most guitarists I know only play tube amps. I actually don’t know anyone that plays a modeling amp. Maybe they’re more popular outside of my sphere, but even with popular YouTube guitars players, they all play tube amps. Mostly Fender.
Even Metallica is running all digital for their love shows. Although they do still mic up for studio work.
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Latency can be an issue if you are playing through a desktop computer or laptop, but its very manageable (for the most part) if you set up your buffers right. I have never ever noticed any latency issues with any physical hardware, even for equipment from years ago.
A lot of hardware audio interfaces were usb2 which demands cpu time as the system has to poll the usb device rather than act on an interrupt. This caused very low latencies to basically never work without dropouts. I can distinguish a 20-30ms latency and above that it becomes too difficult to ply anything meaningful. Even my semi-pro tascam interface could only sample between 11-14ms. Faster cpus over the last 5 year…
Interesting that Kemper hasn’t been mentioned yet. They are a German company who make profiling amps, which basically consist of software able to profile an existing amplifier within ~2 minutes, and then perfectly replicating it. In an interview the inventor said that they have only on the order of 30 parameters which are configured during the profiling process, in which the device sends certain signals through the a…
However, it still fails to model the response of a nice tube amp to dynamics. It gets close, but not quite there.
This is why people like Paul Gilbert use it: he plays with so high gain and compression that dynamics would be basically flat.
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Yeah I didn’t get this statement. I only play tube amps, and most guitarists I know only play tube amps. I actually don’t know anyone that plays a modeling amp. Maybe they’re more popular outside of my sphere, but even with popular YouTube guitars players, they all play tube amps. Mostly Fender.
I never saw the point of getting a real tube amp unless you play exclusively in a studio or rehearsal room. The volume required to crank and get the best of it sounds it makes it too loud for almost any residential area. One of the best features of modeling amps is that you can get the sound of a cranked amp set at a high volume, with low/moderate real volume or even with head-phones. Even in a rehearsal room, real a…
What a clickbait title. Sounds (to whom?) like a $600 (which one?) amp using deep learning (why does it matter?). To expand on this: -$600 tube amp is not description of a sound. And a plug-in is not something you plug your guitar into to make enough noise for 300 people. "A plug-in sounds like a $600 speaker" makes almost as much sense as the title; by the sound of an amp people often mean the sound of the combo box…
So, if I play my guitar through a $5 speaker, but I use this plugin, it will sound like a $600 tube amp :)
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>It's based on a Fender Blues Jr Oh, a $350 amp?[1] then? Linking a store page just to illustrate that price tags are pointless when you talk about musical instruments, and also to give people who don't know an impression of what these $$$ go for . You still need a sound system to get the sound out of a plug-in, and PA systems certainly aren't free. The cost of a comparable PA system + free plug in will easily exceed…
Ok ok, used it's $350, but mine's the Tweed version. MSRP at $600. But yes all good points and further proves that more money does not mean better sound.
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Thanks for trying it, much appreciated. Love Neural DSP's plugins, they are the best as far as I'm concerned.
Mercuriall's plugins are amazing, too. Their Spark plugin and SS-11X (can't tell the difference on that one) are so unbelievably good. If this open source one can do what Spark can do.. I dunno.. I'd shave my beard.
Interesting that Kemper hasn’t been mentioned yet. They are a German company who make profiling amps, which basically consist of software able to profile an existing amplifier within ~2 minutes, and then perfectly replicating it. In an interview the inventor said that they have only on the order of 30 parameters which are configured during the profiling process, in which the device sends certain signals through the a…
Kemper is an amazing product, one of the few true innovations in guitar gear in ages. However, it still fails to model the response of a nice tube amp to dynamics. It gets close, but not quite there. This is why people like Paul Gilbert use it: he plays with so high gain and compression that dynamics would be basically flat.
Personally I think that most problems people report about Kemper‘s sound stem from their speaker setup. If you use it for audio recordings or for loud stage setups, you most likely won’t be able to tell any difference. There are lots of blind tests out there and people often think that the Kemper is the real amp.