Tubes Vs Digital

[Symbiant]

That whole statement on using digital; vsts, au or rtas is true, it's not as organic as using your own gear which makes it your sound and adds your authenticity to the recordings. But then again most of these days your amp is being recorded into digital anyways. What was once what you would call analog (Raw i guess) is transformed into binary info.. I use amplitube anyways for digital. Way better..

 

[ParsonsMatt]

So you too aren't willing to guess, even though you claim tube is more organic?

 

[Symbiant]

I don't understand your question..

Do you understand signal flow? Or basic electronics.

Like : Square waves, Sawtooths, Triangles and sines waves?

Oscillation.

 

[Symbiant]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor

 

[ParsonsMatt]

Read the original post dude... Don't just come in a thread and start talking without knowing what's going on.

I posted a clip. Its of two guitars and drums. One guitar part was recorded with a tube amp, and one with a digital. If digital really does sound different, then you should be able to tell easily which is tube and which isn't.

 

[Conti]

i'm saying tube on the right.

 

[Symbiant]

The right speaker is tube the left isn't..


www.myspace.com/symbiantmetal

^^^

Song on there i did using amplitube..

VST.

 

[waif]

Guitar sound lacks balls. Cool song, though. I'm a sucker for anything headbangable.

 

[Symbiant]

Guitar sound lacks balls. Cool song, though. I'm a sucker for anything headbangable.

Me?

yeah there is no bass guitar too eh to fill in the low end so yeah amplitube digi shit. I just like to mess around with it and write. My actual guitar sound isn't like that, it's just a lot quieter. I just run my inputs into my soundcard.

Then just throw amplitube on a channel and monitor out. I actually record shit clean then add dist later. Weird eh? I don;t record monitor out because of the latency.

 

[KingVEE]

i vote tubes left

 

[WeAreTheLastMen]

Left is tube... sounds better.
Seems like everyone can tell no problem.

 

[waif]

Me?

yeah there is no bass guitar too eh to fill in the low end so yeah amplitube digi shit. I just like to mess around with it and write. My actual guitar sound isn't like that, it's just a lot quieter. I just run my inputs into my soundcard.

Then just throw amplitube on a channel and monitor out. I actually record shit clean then add dist later. Weird eh? I don;t record monitor out because of the latency.

Kewl. That explains the odd sound.
For final recordings I recommend a microphone:Smug:

Left is tube... sounds better.
Seems like everyone can tell no problem.

Yeah. But the difference is fairly minimal, I must say. Both sound good.

 

[cholo11]

Right is digital. sounds more crunchy and artificial but theres something in the left that tells me I may be wrong.

 

[Symbiant]

The left sounded thin and the right sounded larger..

LOL yeah i will mic for recordings..

 

[ParsonsMatt]

And now, the answer!!!!


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Wait for it...




The left side is digital and the right side is tube.

 

[Symbiant]

Yeah the right side is way warmer. The left sounded a bit thin...

 

[razoredge]

well, I must admit Im a little bit bummed, the left side does sound more processed but somewhat smoother. Thus why I asked there were effects present at first, when I saw you already said no and that one was a line 6 I should have made the evaluation that the left side had to be the line 6. Regardless thats a damn good sound for digital... but thats what everyone has been saying about their latest products. When I get much further in my recording process I should put one up of my two amps... it will be much easier, no mistaken that old Randall, its raspy, great for riffs actually but dry as hell for single note.

 

[Conti]

And now, the answer!!!!


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Wait for it...




The left side is digital and the right side is tube.

hah yay I win.

 

[cholo11]

I knew there was something telling me I was wrong.