Anje
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Yeah it does.
Hi Zachman, nice to read you! I do remember the good old threads with your massive multi-amp W/D/W CAE rig, good times
Hope you're doing well.
Hi Zachman, nice to read you! I do remember the good old threads with your massive multi-amp W/D/W CAE rig, good times
Hope you're doing well.
romanianreaper
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romanianreaper
Well-known member
Right now, as I tip my toe into the Synergy soup, I am starting out with the IR-20, but can easily see myself going to a Syn-2 with rackmount power. Just grab my module and put it into a different chassis. Imagine being able to do this back in the day.
The~Kid
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While stuff like this is great IMO and they sound amazing......
I really feel many believe and buy into the illusion that you can just cut and paste shit especially in 2025 and in a sense a naivety when it comes to stuff like this.
Randall MTS was like this too...... Egnater sort of did something similar but not in a modular way.
Seymour Duncan who pioneered the modular system IMO got it right because it was a sort of way of not exactly replicating amps but of offering facimilie of amps that sounded great and ahead of their time.
You simply just can't cut and paste preamps here and there and expect "oh yeah now I have a Deluxe Reverb..... JCM800.... AC30 or whatever......
A lot of the amps character aside from the preamp are in the power section IME and in some ways more so than many guitar players and even me care to think about and take for granted.
Preamps and tone stacks of course have a place and these things sound great but let's not pretend it's so easy as to copy and paste a Mesa Mark ll preamp or a Soldano into one of these and automatically have said amp or a Twin or a Recto or a Matchless or whatever.
IMO again these things sound great but when people buy into this stuff like they seem to be doing ignoring or just going along with the marketing...... Pretty much it's not so copy and paste or cookie cutter and while these things sound great let's not pretend that the power section, transformers and design of a power amp don't account for more of the tone and amp has to bring than we care to think of and IMO take for granted.
These amps such as it's predecessors before like the MTS, Egnater stuff or even the Seymour Duncan stuff never really accounted for the Power Amp and well practically you really can't.
Each amp really has its own thing going on in that regard and while it's easy to copy and paste the preamps..... You really can't do that with a Power Amp section...... Or you can but it would be impractical and stupid expensive and pretty hard to do in either sense.
I really feel many believe and buy into the illusion that you can just cut and paste shit especially in 2025 and in a sense a naivety when it comes to stuff like this.
Randall MTS was like this too...... Egnater sort of did something similar but not in a modular way.
Seymour Duncan who pioneered the modular system IMO got it right because it was a sort of way of not exactly replicating amps but of offering facimilie of amps that sounded great and ahead of their time.
You simply just can't cut and paste preamps here and there and expect "oh yeah now I have a Deluxe Reverb..... JCM800.... AC30 or whatever......
A lot of the amps character aside from the preamp are in the power section IME and in some ways more so than many guitar players and even me care to think about and take for granted.
Preamps and tone stacks of course have a place and these things sound great but let's not pretend it's so easy as to copy and paste a Mesa Mark ll preamp or a Soldano into one of these and automatically have said amp or a Twin or a Recto or a Matchless or whatever.
IMO again these things sound great but when people buy into this stuff like they seem to be doing ignoring or just going along with the marketing...... Pretty much it's not so copy and paste or cookie cutter and while these things sound great let's not pretend that the power section, transformers and design of a power amp don't account for more of the tone and amp has to bring than we care to think of and IMO take for granted.
These amps such as it's predecessors before like the MTS, Egnater stuff or even the Seymour Duncan stuff never really accounted for the Power Amp and well practically you really can't.
Each amp really has its own thing going on in that regard and while it's easy to copy and paste the preamps..... You really can't do that with a Power Amp section...... Or you can but it would be impractical and stupid expensive and pretty hard to do in either sense.
romanianreaper
Well-known member
The Kid, I get what you are saying and you are right but look at it a different way.
Think of all of the modellers out there that are aping a Bogner, Diezel, Marshall, etc. but those algorithms have nothing to do with the amp maker's input. These modules are the preamp circuits, crafted by some of the makers, which is cool.
Now take it a step further. Let's take the Bogner Uberschall module as an example. A user can pick the price point and authenticity of a Bogner in levels based on what they can afford. If soneone just wants the Syn-1, they can do it or get a Bogner power amp with tubes.
I think people can get caught up in just swapping modules to chase big tones. For me, i'm hoping this is a lightweight, flexible amp.
Think of all of the modellers out there that are aping a Bogner, Diezel, Marshall, etc. but those algorithms have nothing to do with the amp maker's input. These modules are the preamp circuits, crafted by some of the makers, which is cool.
Now take it a step further. Let's take the Bogner Uberschall module as an example. A user can pick the price point and authenticity of a Bogner in levels based on what they can afford. If soneone just wants the Syn-1, they can do it or get a Bogner power amp with tubes.
I think people can get caught up in just swapping modules to chase big tones. For me, i'm hoping this is a lightweight, flexible amp.
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