Aw man, WANGS, that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. No wonder I didn't care for it.
Right? The IR is just a snapshot of cab/speaker + mic + mic pre?How does an IR take on more personality than a real cab, mic and mic pre?
Mic pres provide a lot of colour depending on what's used.
What does "in the room" mean if you're comparing IR's to a mic'd cab? Generally "in the room" means cab to ear, no mic, no IR.Maybe I’m alone, but I can ‘most times’ hear the difference in a real life situation in the room when comparing IR’s with a real cab and speakers and mic.
Exactly.Right? The IR is just a snapshot of cab/speaker + mic + mic pre?
Exactly.
Playing different amps through the same IR is no different than playing different amps through the same cab/speaker, mic and mic pre setup
Awesome, sounds like you've done a lot more testing than I have with this.Man, I don't know.
I've shot out a lot of amps, recording with a room mic/camera, mic'd up cab, and with a Suhr RL through IRs.
The amps through the RL and IRs have a bit of homogenization compared to mic on cab, imo.
For instance, a Suhr Hombre and a DRRI sound quite a bit different in the room and mic'd when cranked through the same cab.
But they sound and react remarkably similar when going thru the RL into an IR.
Some intricacies are lost when real speakers are taken out of the equation.
Just my experience while recording at home.
I also found there to be a difference in feel and sound using the Fryette Power Station that so many claim retains the feel and sound of amps, so maybe it's just me.
Right, the common load may be the overriding factor in the sameness that is heard with different amps.Awesome, sounds like you've done a lot more testing than I have with this.
Ahhh the thing I forgot about with IRs and amps is the reactive load itself... that could be a reason why you're finding more amp similarities in the IR space compared to the real cabs?
I'm guessing that reactive load would be the same regardless of amp used and regardless of IR used.
And that reactive load would certainly be influencing the tone.
Devil is in the detail it seems
#3 is a big one for me.After that the questions are, (1) is there a difference, (2) is the difference noticeable, and finally (3) does the difference matter? The first question is objective, the second and third are subjective.
The dude's having a go, and doing his best to put up free content he think's is fun, interesting, informative, whatever. This is more than 99.99% of the guitar playing population do.Yawn
I don't care
Yeah, too bad it was a Wang, a limp one at that.The dude's having a go, and doing his best to put up free content he think's is fun, interesting, informative, whatever. This is more than 99.99% of the guitar playing population do.