NAMM 2014 Predictions

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Not sure if this is the right thread, but here's my hot prediction:

- Steven Slate to preview a guitar cabinet simulator

I'm serious.
 
Well, he did do microphones so that's half the chain….close….
 
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Not sure if this is the right thread, but here's my hot prediction:

- Steven Slate to preview a guitar cabinet simulator

I'm serious.

haha, thinking about the same thing. i kinde feel that he could make it
real good, but i doubt that this will ever happen tbh :/
 
Holy shit! If someone profiles a cab with Slate's mic, then we can chop and change the mic if just own the software!
 
Holy shit! If someone profiles a cab with Slate's mic, then we can chop and change the mic if just own the software!

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This has never been done before by a number of major companies in their ampsim products!:Spin:
 
Holy shit! If someone profiles a cab with Slate's mic, then we can chop and change the mic if just own the software!


Sometimes I wish that instead of like, texting, you could like, speak into your phone and the other person would hear it, then they'd be able to speak back like straight away, like how wowzers would that be?
 
Sometimes I wish that instead of like, texting, you could like, speak into your phone and the other person would hear it, then they'd be able to speak back like straight away, like how wowzers would that be?

That'd be rad, dude.

My idea was that, if you look at the redwirez library for example, it could be cut down to a fraction of the size (i.e., one set of microphone capture for each speaker and each position), if you took the impulses then applied the VMS technology, it would give you the quality of a well captured impulse and your selection of mic and preamp. That's progress. Or, in dickhead speak, "wowsers".

And, dawg boy, Slate has a great track record with this stuff, so odds are that it'd be a better implementation than that of major amp sim companies. Would you like me to cite examples to support this?
 
Oh, come on, man. Dawg boy? Really?

I meant Amplitube, Guitar Rig, Wall of sound, Recabinet. The concept of software that emulates different mics on the same speaker cab is not new. They vary in quality and in the implementation methods, but it's still software that can represent non-linearities only to a certain extent.

Realistically, I think most project studio owners and home recording enthusiasts (including me), whom I believe VMS is marketed at, won't tell impulse from the real cab and mic in a blind test, let aside Kemper profile from the profiled setup. So this does not even need to be anything incredible technology-wise to sell well.

I respect Slate Digital a lot, their products are indeed great and I would love to work in that team of DSP developers, AND it's a great product, but the announcement was a bit overdramatic IMO.
 
Realistically, I think most project studio owners and home recording enthusiasts (including me), whom I believe VMS is marketed at, won't tell impulse from the real cab and mic in a blind test, let aside Kemper profile from the profiled setup.
Come one... you should hear even difference between different deconvolution approaches, not only between real cab + mic and impulses.
For example:


Even with youtube quality...
 
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