Re: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim - Preamps

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

In high school jazz band (many, many years ago), I played a Gibson SG 
reissue plugged into this HUGE Fender amp....it was about 5 feet tall, all 
one piece. It must have had 8 10" speakers or 2 15" speakers (not sure), 
but 
the thing was monstrous! It could literally make the cloth on my pant legs 
shake and cause things to vibrate off the shelf in the band room. I almost 
got expelled from school for playing that amp too loud. At basketball 
games, 
we played rock songs during the line up....that amp filled the entire 
gynmasium with sound, as I played AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" with a background 
recording of a bell. Great fun those days where.  The amp was used by a 
bass 
player the prior year, so any clue on what it was? I think it was a 
bassman.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 

Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 3:56 PM
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
>