KVR Audio

Jason Brian Merrill · Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:23 pm

koolkeys wrote:Oh, and don't shoot me because they are close in sound. Just two variations of the sound I thought sounded good.

If nothing else, they can serve as examples for the plug.

Brent

yeah, no problem there i REALLY appreciate the effort!!!!

Jason Brian Merrill · Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:25 pm

Mutant wrote:
koolkeys wrote:If it is indeed lacking tightness, are there any suggestions for how to make it better? I'm only asking in case there is a way to make it better, as this is a beta version.

Brent
To make the sound tighter, boost the amp with Simulanalog's Tube Sreamer.

not a bad idea, but perhaps somehow this can be implemented into freeamp, a new type of distortion pedal?

or more than one pedal?

hmm.....

Milt · Post by **Milt** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 12:29 pm

Love it!! When and where can we get a manual? This thing looks and sounds great. Thanks

MadChicken · Post by **MadChicken** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:07 pm

koolkeys wrote:Here are two versions of Jason's file that I did. I'm not saying that they are what he wants. Just my expirimenting with things. Who knows, maybe I'm close? Doesn't sound muddy to me. But then again, it's me.

http://www.audiopedia.org/guitar.wav
http://www.audiopedia.org/guitar2.wav

Great tones! Do you have patches?

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:23 pm

If Joe (frettedsynth) is not going to change the preset format of FreeAmp2, then I can open the presets WIKI ...

OldGeezer · Post by **OldGeezer** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:30 pm

Well, this thread was fun to follow until x-pages ago when it turned into a mass effort to prove to one person he absolutely MUST like freeamp. He doesn't...he never will. He's looking for authentic amp sounds to suit his fussy tastes and he ain't gonna get it, he's not getting it with commercial products...he's not getting it here. Everyone I've noticed likes FA2 except one, and for a free product, that aint bad. Go to a commercial forum and see what the ratio of happy/unhappy customers is, heh heh.

Anyways, I love alot the sounds FA2 is capable of, and like others, I've stopped bothering with the presets and I start with the amp, then the cab etc...

BTW...Did you change something FrettedSynth? I used the new beta for a couple hours last night and it didn't jolt me with any buzzing sounds! Naturally, now that I've said that it will the next time I fire it up...fingers crossed.

Also, can someone help me out with something? I don't know much about amps so I'll be using the wrong terms (I'm using keyboard/samplers) but.... If I play two notes, say D4 and A4, I get a nice distorted power-chord sound. But if I hit D4 and F4, the strings' resonance interfere with each other and you get all that unwanted frequency stuff (hope that makes sense). If you know the first two notes in the intro to ACDC's "Shoot to thrill", [EDIT: Crap, I meant "Have a drink on me" not "shoot to thrill] thats the basic type of chord I'm talking about (disregarding the fact that the first note is bent up. I can't get those two notes to ring together without alot of nasty resonance interference. Is there a way to lose that effect without sacrificing any distortion? EDIT: Btw...For all I know, this could be a sampler issue and it doesn't do it with real guitars.

MadChicken · Post by **MadChicken** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 3:44 pm

I don't think the point of FA2 is "the ultimate pro tone".

I think "putting a guitar tone in through your sound card and using only software to tweak prod and mangle it into cool sounds" is more the idea. I was playing around pushing simple synth sounds through it and it sounded really fun with very little effort.

It's all about fun! The fact that it *kinda* emulates real-world amp response is a side-effect.

Mr. Tingle · Post by **Mr. Tingle** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:00 pm

OldGeezer wrote:Well, this thread was fun to follow until x-pages ago when it turned into a mass effort to prove to one person he absolutely MUST like freeamp. He doesn't...he never will. He's looking for authentic amp sounds to suit his fussy tastes and he ain't gonna get it, he's not getting it with commercial products...he's not getting it here. Everyone I've noticed likes FA2 except one, and for a free product, that aint bad. Go to a commercial forum and see what the ratio of happy/unhappy customers is, heh heh.

hear hear

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:00 pm

OldGeezer wrote: BTW...Did you change something FrettedSynth? I used the new beta for a couple hours last night and it didn't jolt me with any buzzing sounds! Naturally, now that I've said that it will the next time I fire it up...fingers crossed.

Might of been something to do with the compressor meters? Still never reproduced the two instances open compressor meter problem, but the compressor was one of the first FX built in FreeAmp (about two years ago) so there was some older SE sub-controls in it, I replaced them with all newer modules in hopes that it would help the problem? Let me know if it happens again?

Jason Brian Merrill wrote:not a bad idea, but perhaps somehow this can be implemented into freeamp, a new type of distortion pedal?

or more than one pedal?

hmm......

Thanks that is constuctive

Will have to look into that

asseca wrote: If Joe (frettedsynth) is not going to change the preset format of FreeAmp2, then I can open the presets WIKI ....

Provided no new bugs come up? nothing will change for this version anyhow

SE does have a way of messing up backwards compatablity when too much is changed, That I'm sorry for and hope it is not a problem for you all?

And again thanks to everyone for the kind words of FA2 and help to make this possable.

Fretted Synth

camsr · Post by **camsr** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:05 pm

The plug isn't working for me. I tried to run it and it gave me alot of exception faults. Does this require SSE to use?

Newbie Brad · Post by **Newbie Brad** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:06 pm

There's hardly any guitar plug as ambitious as FA2. The other FrettedSynth plugs are pretty ambitious too. Thanks for aiming high.

FrettedSynth · Post by **FrettedSynth** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:10 pm

camsr wrote:The plug isn't working for me. I tried to run it and it gave me alot of exception faults. Does this require SSE to use?

Yes! The plugin does require SSE to run. Sorry about that but figured with the

Higher CPU use of this plugin not many older machines would handle it anyhow? v1.5 or before does not need SSE to work.

Fretted Synth

Milt · Post by **Milt** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:11 pm

What about a manual?

asseca · Post by **asseca** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:13 pm

Milt wrote: What about a manual?

... Manual is in the works ...

Jason Brian Merrill · Post by **Jason Brian Merrill** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:23 pm

Mr. Tingle wrote:
OldGeezer wrote:Well, this thread was fun to follow until x-pages ago when it turned into a mass effort to prove to one person he absolutely MUST like freeamp. He doesn't...he never will. He's looking for authentic amp sounds to suit his fussy tastes and he ain't gonna get it, he's not getting it with commercial products...he's not getting it here. Everyone I've noticed likes FA2 except one, and for a free product, that aint bad. Go to a commercial forum and see what the ratio of happy/unhappy customers is, heh heh.
hear hear

yes, and my ears are NOT picky ... they just want something open and clear and not muddy. And what i DO *hear* is crap with high gain.

Who said i wasnt "Getting it" with commercial products?

its just my opinion, and i guarantee if you took some of the toneheads from kvr and brought them in here they would have similar things to say about it.

It has a nice quality about it, but the high gain simply does not work. I would like to hear a professionally recorded amp that sounds like that.

again, i reply this way because it seems like people are getting so defensive and slinging mud when all I am doing is presenting my bloody opinion.

and people are telling me :no no , it CAN get that sound, so i say, prove it... and they havent as of yet, its clearly heard....

FreeAmp2 beta testing started