RE: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim - Preamps

["Mark Sottilaro" <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Have we learned nothing from Brian May?  Xan McCurdy?

Sure, if you're doing a guitar only piece and you want to bathe the 
listener
in the full spectra, have at it (I do), but man there's nothing like a band
pass filter to make a guitar sound really interesting and sit sweetly in a
mix.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Luca Formentini [mailto:luca@unguitar.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim - Preamps

Luca wrote and Per replied:

>> 2nd thing: bass preamps are usually more sensitive, natural and  wide 
>> in frequency range.
>
>
> I'm wondering if this is not also true for real tube amps as well?  
> The best sounding (jazz vibe) guitar sound I have had was on a  
> borrowed Fender Bassman 50 W top.

Oh yes Per !
I remember the first time I tried to put my guitar into the bass amp of 
my old bass player...
bomb !
I thought "yes, here it is ALL the sound" !!!
I felt that all the guitar amps I have been using until that time were 
cutting highs and lows to make guitar smaller.
It sure is because of the "cut in the mix" politic where each instrument 
has to stay in a certain freq. range.
For the music I play this is something I don't want, I layer guitars 
over guitars and I want to decide what, where and how much.

maybe you feel the same ;-)
my best,
luca
www.unguitar.com