Recently I've come up with an idea of a guitar amp - not a sim, but something instantly usable. I'm not a guitar player myself, but I think I do know how to record good sounds from a guitar combo (given it's a good sounding combo).
I hope this alpha version is bugless and is usable right away. I think this guitar amp can be used for both high-gain and clean tones. CPU usage will be lower in the final release version.
Here are preliminary descriptions of the parameters:
Emphasis and Cut Filters. These are used to shape the sound of an amplifier. This is a very powerful tone-shaping stage.
Pre-filter. Used to filter the incoming guitar signal. This is usually useful if the pickups on the guitar are too boomy or too crisp. This can be also used to shape the sound.
Amplifier. This part is usually represented by a single Drive knob on the actual guitar combos. I've changed this concept and made it possible to get very different overdrive tones using three knobs. Tone knob adjusts the character of distortion. With low tone value high Drive generates crispy distortion, without much overdriven body. High tone value provides a more solid overdriven body. Phase parameter adjusts the overdrive performance. With this parameter it is possible to fine-tune harmonical structure of the overdrive - for example if you hear too much discord tuning the Phase parameter may help. In some cases Phase also works as a mic displacement control - you can get different degrees of tone with it.
Speaker cabinet impulse response selects which speaker cabinet model (and mic) to use. It is possible to load external WAV or AIFF files, but please be careful with large files.
http://www.voxengo.com/temp/VoxengoBoog ... _setup.exe
(note this is a temp folder - executable file can be removed later).
Comments are very welcome!
A note on speaker impulses. These are Beamsonic impulses. I maybe wrong, but in my opinion these are freeware impulses. If it's not the case please let me know.
Voxengo Boogex Guitar Amp (alpha)
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- KVRAF
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
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- KVRAF
- 2565 posts since 30 Mar, 2004 from Phoenix AZ USA
Very interesting.
I will try it later tonight and post my opinion.
Thanks
I will try it later tonight and post my opinion.
Thanks
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- KVRAF
- 3944 posts since 7 May, 2004 from behind his workbench
man, this IS and SOUNDS so cool... 
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Thanks. A good start I guess. 
Anyway, suggestions are welcome.
Anyway, suggestions are welcome.
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- KVRAF
- 2565 posts since 30 Mar, 2004 from Phoenix AZ USA
OK I played with it for a few minutes.
There is something fundamentally wrong here.
If I turn the DRIVE up I get more distortion as expected but I also get to hear the clean guitar.
It's almost as if the pre fx signal is mixed with the post fx signal.
If this is the case then it's wrong and needs to be fixed.
There is something fundamentally wrong here.
If I turn the DRIVE up I get more distortion as expected but I also get to hear the clean guitar.
It's almost as if the pre fx signal is mixed with the post fx signal.
If this is the case then it's wrong and needs to be fixed.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Andrew, I will check this out. Anyway, try this with Tone at max - indeed, I've found myself it does not work predictable with the Tone below max.
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- KVRAF
- 13444 posts since 14 Nov, 2000 from Hannover / Germany
Before I download this to try: Is the impulse/speaker section adding much of a latency?
There are 3 kinds of people:
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
Those who can do maths and those who can't.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Sascha, not much really. Should be playable in real-time.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Updated version:
http://www.voxengo.com/temp/VoxengoBoog ... _setup.exe
Plus three presets and refined Tone control. Now Tone works like a 'channel' switch on guitar combos. I.e. low tone creates cleaner undistorted sound.
http://www.voxengo.com/temp/VoxengoBoog ... _setup.exe
Plus three presets and refined Tone control. Now Tone works like a 'channel' switch on guitar combos. I.e. low tone creates cleaner undistorted sound.
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- KVRer
- 16 posts since 30 Sep, 2003
Wow, I have been looking for smooth, real speaker sim with air and high's. The SVT bright cab sims are perfect for speaker simulating my valve preamp to create some modern metal tones.
And its real time.
The onboard distortion is old school but very, very good. Clean up well and sounds like an old amplifier. Better than Guitar Rig, Amplitube or any modeller by far.
Good work.
Now we need some modern metal tones from the preamp section!
And its real time.
The onboard distortion is old school but very, very good. Clean up well and sounds like an old amplifier. Better than Guitar Rig, Amplitube or any modeller by far.
Good work.
Now we need some modern metal tones from the preamp section!
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Grants, thanks for comments. Could you send me some *good* examples of 'metal tones' in mp3 format to info@voxengo.com?
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4030 posts since 7 Sep, 2002
Grants, Phase = 0 substitutes to modern distortion sound. But of course, some cabinet sound not currently in the list may be required.
Dimitar, thanks for invitation.
Dimitar, thanks for invitation.
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- Banned
- 1842 posts since 4 Aug, 2004 from just right here
This looks interesting, its a little bit too cold for me at the moment, Im experimenting with some impulses right now, Ill try this out in a second. A good one.
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- KVRAF
- 1907 posts since 29 Oct, 2003
Any motivation to develop a system for bass-players at some point ? I know guitar players may be outnumbering bassists ... BUT ... !