I'm not really bent up on "classic" guitar tone, and my main guitar is wired stereo, but I like the sag and drive of open power amp tubes, and the sound of a struggling speaker pushing air, which I miss the most about amp sims.Pashkuli wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 10:31 am
Well, that would be a placebo , actually a double placebo (using Tube DI on the input, then Tube amp on the output) as somehow you will be sleeping in satisfaction that you've used tubes.
Yes, BIAS FX is an overrated = (marketing driven) amp-sim. Nothing wrong with that. Their product looks amazing and works.
The heart of the amp-sim is in the pre-amp. Cabs + Mics → there are plenty of great IRs of those (good/bad). You just have to phase them correctly or to the maximum phase match (not 100% possible anyway).
We need "IRs" for the pre-amp throughout the whole freq. generated tones (harmonics) spectrum - profile match.
That is what the most important characteristic of a tone is - the timbre (harmonic content in various combinations of freq., amplitude, phase, attack, decay, sustain, release, tail)!
I know what a tube DI does to a sound (recorded bass a lot with a tubetech MP1A) (it's not much but it's something) and i know what a tube power amp does.
So what i'm really after is the best and most FLEXIBLE preamp section of an amp simulator. (So, that's why bias AMP, not bias FX.)
Seems like this could yield a nice guitar tone with a LOT of flexibility without the limitation of a classic guitar mono tube amp.