New OG rack gear day….

[Rackman]

edit: it's why even if the modeler sounded good, it didn't have the feel and responsiveness that many tube amp players were used to, and wanted. it kept many tube amp players away from digital modeling for years or maybe forever?

Yeah all those early modelers had very short context windows, so they were basically incapable of modeling either the large difference between tubes' dynamic headroom and steady state headroom, or any sort of power supply sag. Both of those weaknesses made them sound kinda funny. You could bring back the sag via power amp choice, but they dynamic headroom issue was sort of fatal. They just compressed the shit out of the transients.

The newer modelers have like a 150ms context window which is over 10 cycles of a low E. So they don't really have the same limitation.

 

[CrystalSky]

It’s actually tomorrow but anyway… I’m kinda excited about it… pod pro xt, avid 11rack, tweed rack case, furman rack power conditioner as well…. For a killer deal imo. Picking it up in the morning….really looking forward to getting these. Always wanted to try the 11rack and I have always gotten good sounds out of the pod pro rack units. So yeah…yay me…View attachment 462984

Oh, I remember wanting these back in school days. I didn’t even know that heads need cabs to sound then lol

Congrats!