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I think you’re paying me compliments, but mate, I just don’t get the references I’m afraid! Thanks though, if you’re being nice

All good, yes it can be tough to know who to take seriously online!

Great! For disclosure, I too have spent years and 100's of hours on this, having created IR products for my software company and under license for others. It's nice to talk to someone who has done similarly. This is exactly the kind of conversation I was hoping to have, and I am not trying to...

Hah, thanks! How long do you think the decay time of a guitar cab is? How long would an IR need to be to capture authentic dynamics of a cab, in your opinion?

An IR file by definition captures the decay time at all frequencies, so it does indeed affect dynamics. It doesn't replicate compression or saturation though, as you say, which is what I said in my above post. Some of the IRs on the market are captured very badly (some are essentially...

Word to the wise, a well captured IR will usually be MORE dynamic than a speaker, because it has essentially infinite headroom where the real speaker compresses as the cone tries to replicate all the frequencies/amplitudes being demanded of it. I think you're hearing the proximity effect bump of...

I dunno mate, if the goal was to simply get the JMP up to a comparable saturation, they could easily have used a transparent clean boost or even just sent a hotter signal down the reamp chain for that amp. Somehow I don’t think everyone would like that tone the most though To be clear, I think...

Another sleeper amp to consider is the Mesa Stiletto. They go for cheap and are essentially a high quality hot-rodded Marshall circuit with powerful voicing switches and a great clean. Never understood why they’re not far more popular

If you’re after something a bit different, have you considered a VHT/Fryette Sig:X? Or a Synergy amp head with modules?

I think the SD1 in front of the JMP is really skewing things when compared to going straight into the other two amps, which both sound twangier and looser since the signal hitting the front end isn't being heavily band-passed beforehand. Nice tones all around though

I think at this point the 57 is too ingrained in our auditory memories for anything to come along and tip it off the top spot as the most ideal mic for distorted tones. That’s on top of the fact that they are cheap, lightweight, extremely durable, don’t require phantom, and can be easily...

Nice speakers, very underrated - to me they're better than the 65s and 75s from that era, which get so much more attention. I agree the bass cones are the ones you want,

I mean, I don't know if I'm used to "listening past" the cab sound or if I'm delusional but when I heard the EVH video I thought it sounded like a cool amp.

It's the cab/speakers. I can't believe how much people are freaking out over the EVH video.

Nailed on the head. Higher total load doesn't just give you "more highs", it's actually a higher spike at the resonant peak, which depending on the pickup could mean a nice amount of extra air on top (i.e. with low output pickups), or could mean boosting right in the most unpleasant upper...

Thanks for continuing to spread the word dude! It sounds awesome!

Thanks for spreading the word Jer!

Sounding awesome VESMedic, love the dual Fredman approach. Thanks for spreading the word!

Awesome, so glad to hear it, I think the Smooth cab is a bit of a dark horse among users at the moment, for me personally I rotate between that one, Upfront and Massive as my favourites (and those are the three cabs I'll never sell, even though right now they are taking up space in the hallway...

Nice, I look forward to hearing/seeing those, thanks for the support! Hey! Yeah, that's a good question. I don't put much stock at all in my thoughts on the "in the room" sound of a cab. For recording the only thing that matters to me is how it sounds under the microphone, which magnifies all...