Recent content by Omega_Void

OTOH, if somebody found it, it may still be a subject of interest to some... :) I've done a few now, tried the Overlord bridge (not awesome tonally, brittle iron) another cheap Chinese (great tone, hefty brass thing, but the daft bridge arrangement couldn't hold the fricking strings on) and...

Loudspeaker driver efficiency tends to be inversely proportionate to maximum excursion (because a longer excursion requires a longer, thus heavier, voice coil assembly). For a given speaker cone area, halving the frequency doubles the excursion needed to produce the same SPL. From the pdf...

Positive phase is when the recorded wave is above the centre-line. Negative phase is when it's below the centre-line. The phase meter measures the phase correlation between left and right channels (i.e. if they're always positive/negative at the same time, phase correlation is positive. If...

Could be an EMC issue (electromagnetic compatibility). Have you recently added anything electronic in the environment? (Especially anything using a switchmode power supply. Any PSU which weighs less than you'd expect is probably switchmode, and they're often little bastards for RF.) Have you...

If it had returned broken, Thomann would have to list it as "refurbished". Probably it's just someone bought it and changed their mind. It says "full warranty", so you're covered anyway. Depends on the output impedance of the amp. If Zout is zero, the same voltage is put across the...

There's less rules in metal for the bass than the guitars; rhythm gtrs will always be heavily overdriven. Bass always plays a supporting role to that, but there's a whole lot of different ways to fit it, in depending on what type of contribution you want it to make to the overall sound of the...

Probably nothing you don't know anyway... IMO the cab makes a more significant difference in tone than amps when it comes to most approaches to the bass sound. Therefore, I'd sooner trade in the amp to use a speaker I love the sound of than use a different speaker for the convenience of...

I'd hook such a rig up in the controlled environment of the studio without much fear. But in a live situation I would worry because if feedback occurs it could drive the amp to its full output. A sustained 275 Watts would be fatal pretty quickly.

Dolby noise reduction uses a compander type of process on the highs: Top end is compressed and boosted when going to tape, to get better SNR over the tape hiss. The playback side uses an expander to drop the highs back to where they were on the way in. An old trick is to apply to Dolby...

Bizzarro!!! ...Perhaps you mean after ~5 seconds of hollering into it? If it only happens when you're recording I might suspect some sort of evil curse... :D Okay, so: you still have some signal coming out after the fault kicks in. Ergo: the wiring between the audio output devices and the XLR...

Frequency response of the loudspeaker drivers will differ with amplifier output impedance. A solid-state poweramp designed for PA or hi-fi will have low distortion, but very low output impedance. Solid-state guitar poweramps will have rather high output impedance, to better sound like tube...

There is no virtual amp here;). The preamp is physical, its output is recorded;). The poweramp and speaker are physical in one clip, and their distortions are added on top of the preamp;), just as normally happens in a guitar rig;). In another clip the preamp goes through Nebula instead of any...

I believe Colin Richardson has been known to use the Dolby trick to enhance highs, maybe there's some of that going on?

I've gone off Tortex. Used to use the Dunlop 1.14mm, went to the cheaper Fire & Stone version carried by a local music shop which I actually preferred, I think 'cos the edges are rounded from new, whereas the Dunlop edges were squared off and took a while to play in. But I tried out a few...

...why? :dopey: It's either the amp sim or the guitar, then. It's the guitar then. Or he's using his superpowers.