Thanks everyone!
Wow!! Does the hot plate help significantly when using impulses? What hot plate are u using?
Also what are ur settings on the 5150?
8 ohm Hot Plate (I could have also used 16 or 4 ohms, but my cab is 8 ohms, so that's the best one for me to use for when I want to play at low volume through the cab).
There are pretty much 2 ways to make impulses... through the power section of a guitar amp, or through a flat poweramp of some kind. If you use the power section of a guitar amp to make impulses, you can set up the presence/resonance/depth controls (or whatever your power section has) however you like them when you make the impulse, but then it's best to use a preamp output for recording, since you've already captured the power section. However, the main gripe most people have with impulses is that they don't really capture the dynamic response of cabs/power sections as well, so why would you want a static snapshot of your poweramp if you could play through (and record) your entire amp direct with just the cabinet captured in an impulse? I feel that it reintroduces some punch and thickness that a lot of people have a hard time getting with direct recordings. So that's why I use a Hot Plate (and I actually made the impulse using the headphone amp on my Presonus Central Station
). It's not strictly necessary, but I feel it gives me better direct recordings, and as an added benefit, I can set it to "Load" and record completely silently, whereas just using the preamp out would still require me to have a speaker hooked up, and with the 5150, you need to have the channel volume turned up pretty high to get a decent signal out of the preamp out (and Standby disables the preamp out).
5150 settings... I'm not sure, I actually did this a month or two ago, but I think it was lead gain 4.5 or so (maybe 4), bass 5, mids 3, treble 6.5, resonance 0, presence 5. That's what I usually use, although lately I've been turning up the resonance a bit... not sure if I like it, though, for recording purposes, the low end can get out of control pretty quickly.
tone is good, but i really like the riff!
got any more stuff?
Thanks! No more stuff right now, but I'm working on some things. Also, I recently picked up an Engl E530, and while it I feel like it has slightly less attitude than the 5150, it has so much more clarity. I am going to be experimenting with some blends between the two.
Also, Wild Hades, I haven't had time to do your thing with the impulses yet, but hopefully I'll get to it sometime this week.
