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Doug, you wrote
“In the
world of electronic chips and processors, I own a Boss GT-3. I love it. BUT. It
has no resonance around the pitch of G. Regardless of the patch, it kinda goes
limp when I play a G. I can feel my guitar resonating, but I hear the unit just
tossing a wet blanket over the note. Explain that one. "
Nope, as I said, I can feel the
guitar resonating on the note G. And I don't have the problem in any other
system, and especially not in any tube amp.
But…….I think the problem you are encountering may
be inherent to modeling processors in general, I’ve owned stuff from Line 6 (a
pod pro), Roland (VF-1), and a Vox tone lab se. Of the three, the vox sounds the
best and feels the best to my ears and fingers, however, all of them exhibit a
digital rasp or harshness, that is most apparent on clean tones, and open
strings (the g string being the worst, but not the only offender), and hard
playing only makes it worse and sound more harsh and hollow, with no bloom to
the note.
This is the curse of digitizing. They just don't deal with overtones
nicely. The VF-1 is, I believe, essentially the same as the Boss GT-3, and I
just can't use the modeling or the clean sounds when I have several nice tube
amps available. I can't explain it as well as an engineer, but my take is
that analog is infinite in detail and forgiving at its limits; digital is finite
in detail and unforgiving at its limits. Analog = good mojo, digital = bad mojo.
It takes strong magic to harness the power of digital
mojo.
Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
www.thecoyote.org coyotelk@optonline.net "Life! Life!
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