AW: RME Firewire 800 and Guitar Amp Sim - Preamps

["Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

> > pickup and strings on it....sounds like total crap when you run it 
> > through a regular line input or mixer board, etc."
> Heh heh...I said that, Rainer, not Luca. :)  It was an exerpt 

I later discovered that Luca didn't say it and hoped that you would tell me
who made this statement...thanks, I wouldn't have expected that to come 
from
Luca.

> still stand to my comment that for me plugging any guitar 
> (solid body electric or my precious hollow body PRS, or the 
> tons of other guitars I've owned over the years) direcly into 
> a mixer board produces very undesireable results and tone.  
> "For me" it does sound like crap...sterile and lifeless. 

Plugging an electric guitar (with passive electronics) directly into the
mixing board produces undesirable results because the mixer ins have a low
impedance in the 1E2Ohm range. Passive electronics don't like that.

Apart from that issue (which you can easily circumvent by using a DI box),
it may have to do with your choice of sound. Sometimes, I'm forced to play
unprocessed (like at the y2k6loopfest main festival gig of which you'll 
find
the recordings on the festival website) because my ampsim crashes, but I
wouldn't call it crap apart from my own playing. (The setup in that case 
was
Bill's wonderful pink strat into Behringer DI20 into Firebox mic in and 
from
there unprocessed to FOH).

        Rainer