On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:51:40 +0200, Sander deWaal
wrote:

Signal said:

Until DSP takes it all over.........

Have you experienced tube simulation Sander?


Not really, excpet for fiddling with an Aphex Aural Exciter and a
German DSP-based guitar amplifier (Engl).


If so... any comments?


Both of them didn't impress me very much.

But then again, that was some years ago and technology moves on.

Some of these new modeling amps are pretty amazing sounding.

I suspect that's what Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick was using when he
played different guitars for EVERY song during the set that I saw last
week. While most of his gear was humbucker-equipped, he played several
single-coil Telecasters. And there wasn't a single pedal of any kind
on the stage. It was the first time I had seen such a thing.

I suspect that he used a DSP preamp, possibly with auto presets. Or
maybe his guitar tech did some manual button-punching for each
song/guitar combo.