stateofepicicity wrote:I've always wondered if the departure from swappable components came from the desire not compete with Revalver, which of course operates on the other end of the spectrum with regard to component swappability. I don't know, I never quite had the feeling in my gut from Revalver that I do from Amplitube models.
Well, there's an aspect of usability in the Amplitube stuff. You can grab a familiar-feeling model and get up and running with it fairly fast. The ability to geek out by swapping around different transformer models in given vintage Marshall-based model would be cool, but might rapidly baffle the less geeky.
To an extent, the swappable speaker models in AT4 suggest that they're still playing with user-oriented customization features -- though, equally, I suspect owners of real amps are more likely to swap out speakers in their cabs than completely re-mod their amp head interiors.
I can imagine future AT versions where the ability to swap around components, etc. is itself a paid-for "unlockable" feature. Get them with the shiny new Mesa head models, keep 'em coming back to tweak capacitors in the plexi.
stateofepicicity wrote:Whatever kind of preamp was created for the JMP-1, the preamp / power amp combo sounds great. Tight as hell, and very responsive. Perhaps that's the point of an optimized poweramp. This is the developers' idea of what a rig involving a JMP-1 should sound like. I'd love to see some of the Voodoo Amps JMP-1 mods in Amplitube. Especially since this is not an official Marshall collaboration, who cares, why not use an enhanced version? Hell, isn't that how Boogie started, modding Fenders? Lee Jackson Metaltronix stuff, wasn't that started with modded Marshalls (if memory serves)? Anyway...
And, indeed, Soldano essentially grew out of Marshall mods -- no? Anyway, I'm onboard for this approach. IK has done some "own-brand" amp models in previous versions of AT, but there wasn't much talking them up. Given how conservative guitarists (and musicians generally!) are with gear, one wants to kind of "place" any own-brand stuff within the wider "mythology of gear".
stateofepicicity wrote:I imagine it would be endlessly fascinating to see how the speaker modeling was developed. I mean, how do you isolate the part the cab plays alone, aside from the speakers, perhaps you measure the cab with speakers, measure the speakers without the cabs, and use some sort of subtractive algorithm to approximate the effect the wood structure itself has on the sound. That's just awesome. Unless of course the devs simply installed all 29 speakers into each cab and measured them; the number of permutations would seem a daunting task to measure haha!
And I wish IK would geek out a bit more about their own stuff. I mean, doubtless there are some technical trade secrets and such about which they'd prefer not to talk -- but there must be plenty of other stuff that they could talk about.
That said ...
stateofepicicity wrote:Thanks for looking into my question, Peter; always nice to peek behind the curtain to the thought process behind this software.
... Peter does seem to do his best to bring as much geek as allowable.
