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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 129094" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Guitar Amp ModelersI have been following this technology as it evolved over decades. There is a place for it but there will always be subtle differences between a mimic and the real thing. I am not dismissing the technology just trying to frame it in a proper perspective. My mixer design group used to share a common lab space with guitar amp design engineers so I got to see what and how amp design works on a daily basis for years.As I have been trying to say, just modeling the electrical response of a guitar amp misses the acoustic mojo going on with speaker distortion, and room/space sound radiation patterns due to open back and/or side panels re-radiating sound. There are weird crosstalk vectors inside/between the high impedance circuit nodes that changes with front panel settings. There is lots more going on, but TMI for this thread. JR</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 129094, member: 126"] Re: Guitar Amp Modelers I have been following this technology as it evolved over decades. There is a place for it but there will always be subtle differences between a mimic and the real thing. I am not dismissing the technology just trying to frame it in a proper perspective. My mixer design group used to share a common lab space with guitar amp design engineers so I got to see what and how amp design works on a daily basis for years. As I have been trying to say, just modeling the electrical response of a guitar amp misses the acoustic mojo going on with speaker distortion, and room/space sound radiation patterns due to open back and/or side panels re-radiating sound. There are weird crosstalk vectors inside/between the high impedance circuit nodes that changes with front panel settings. There is lots more going on, but TMI for this thread. JR [/QUOTE]

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