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Default Why don't these signals null?

On Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 12:31:59 PM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
James Price wrote:
Let's say I record a DI guitar part into a looper, then re-amp that looped part and record the output twice to separate tracks in a DAW, time-align them and invert the phase on one. I know the tracks won't null, but I don't fully understand the why.


They don't sound the same, so why would you expect them to null?

The whole reason you run the signal through a cabinet is to change the
waveform. So don't be surprised when it does just that.


I'm curious why the signals don't null when changes imparted by the cabinet
are controlled for, though? For example, sending a looped guitar DI to
an amp and then running that through an impulse response of a guitar cabinet.
Again, the caveat is that clean tones *will* null, thus I'm referring to
distorted and overdriven tones.