danny what a monster post I'm at work at present i'll read it when I get home thanks

Another fix for that John, good speaker sim impulses. With good cab emulation, you won't get any of that fizzy stuff unless you add it in yourself. RedWirez has some really cool free impulses you can check out. Actually, there are several free ones on the net that actually sound killer for those that use amp sims. Most of the time it's the cab emulations they supply that aren't very good...but once you can replace them or use an impulse loader, the black clouds of fizz fade into the abyss for life...thank God. :)
 
-Danny

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  danny what a monster post I'm at work at present i'll read it when I get home thanks

Not a problem brother, you're quite welcome...it will make a decent read when you sit on the throne or something. LOL! :)
 
-Danny

Interesting, that point about the cab sims had never occurred to me.

So this is probably a really dumb question...... so how do you replace the cabinet emulations on the typical guitar sim using an impulse?  I have never even thought of doing this.  It is that FIZZ that always bothers me about the sims.

A few ways to do it Mike. Some sims allow you to run your impulses inside their software. Our ABG stuff allows that. But, when you don't have that capability, you could run something like Perfect Space or Prinstine Space AFTER the guitar sim plug and run your impulses in them. If the amp sim you use has a "disable cabs" button, youd want to disable it. But if it doesn't, you can still use the impulses with the sim cabs. You'll just need to tweak the impulses a bit. Hope this helps. :)

-Danny

+1 to the HPF concept - on damn near everything except bass & drums. But I nearly always use a LPF on amp sims, too. 

Amp sims introduce harmonic distortion, just like a real amplifier. That means they're adding high-frequency content. But real amplifiers have a built-in lowpass filter in the form of power amplifiers and speakers that simply cannot reproduce high frequencies. The result is a rich midrange without that annoying "fizz". In a digital emulation, no such restrictions exist, so those harmonics go right on up to fs/2 unless you add a LPF.

I like the IK Fender sounds. One thing to remember. On a real blackface Fender amp the bass response cuts in dramatically when the bass hits around 3. After that point you are adding mush. Trust me on this one. I frequently tell Fender players to keep the bass low, even more so if the gain is high. It's the way the actual tone stack is wired so a good emulator should behave the same.

Fender amps usually sound better with an open back cab since they are designed for higher bass response. I like the IK fender amp with the VOX 212 open back cab emulation, it's a nice pairing based on how the real equipment compliments each other.

Danny, slightly OT, but I know you advocate the use of compression on the way in when recording a DI'd electric guitar. Is there any reason why you say it should be a hardware compressor, or can the same thing be achieved ITB? Why? And are you using it to control the sound (ie. fast attack, medium to slow release) or add 'punch' (slow attack, fast release)?

I am thinking that the compressor is used on the way in to keep from overloading the Realtek.