Uh...
 
Trouble in paradise.
Getting rejections on some servers that the file size exceeds the limit they can accept. File is 108 MB. My server says I'm nuking the planet with 148 MB per attachment. Some transfers creeping along okay.
 
Will keep track of the failed transfers. Got your emails. I don't want to ressurect any trouble over a bad issue in the past, so can't really post these on a public site. Anyone who wants these incredible creations should have access to them however. This was the fired up intent of all the creators involved showing off their programming and graphic design skills.
 
On an 84 hour shift at the hospital, so can't get this fixed right now.
 
Will upload the zip to a non public account and send you the link. Might be mid next week, but will not forget.
 
John

About the heads…
 
Will upload the zip file of around 150 or so heads to a link and send you guys a download link. Anyone else who wants these, please PM and I’ll get the link to you.
 
Not trying to be a jerk about this, but don’t want to get dev Ken or anyone else in trouble. Still some bad vibes resonating in the ethers that were never resolved in peace.
 
History stuff, in the glory days of Head Case, a guy got involved and set up a website for distribution of the heads. Lot of work categorizing and updating. Great website. Was called virtual amp stash. Real diamonds poured in from everywhere in the world. Some amazing creations.
 
The heads were a real joy and challenge to create. Ken set up the system so that guys like me who know nothing about coding could get close to the creative experience. Not easy, because you have to build the head transistor by capacitor. Your virtual work bench was covered by a hundred parts that you had to assemble and tweak and route. If you were not a graphics artist as well as a sound designer, you were toasted. You created the world’s greatest amp sim and nobody can see it until you give it graphic life by assembling and aligning all the GUI components from individual graphics. Tough job.
 
There was a fallout with the website guy and he threatened to shut it down, which he did. Fine, okay. Many of us flipped the bird and stated on the public forum that anyone can use our heads ad infinitum. The **** got legal stuff involved to question the ownership and domain of the created heads. Does Ken or the creator own them. Can of worms and threat of lawsuits if the heads were distributed. This not under control of the lay creators who just wanted to share their masterpieces with other musicians.
 
Perfect common example of law not for the protection and benefit of humanity, but law distorted to cause harm and restriction.
 
Some fine amp sims are lost. I’ve got about a third of them that I’d like to pass down because this was the wish of every individual who created a new monster.
 
If you get into these sims, there may be more available from the amp modeling website. This is an interesting forum, sort of a collection of vst guitar software users. AcmeBarGig is in there. Look thru the posts and there are individuals who have posted their heads for download. Some of the history of the struggle as well.
 
http://www.guitarampmodeling.com/
 
Success rate was miserable on sending out the 150 heads I have left by email attachment. Will upload the zip and send a link to all who have requested.
 
John
 
(edit) Hmm... auto censure took out my epithet for the gentleman who crashed the head distribution process. Reference was to the distal orifice or sphincter to the large intestine.

Heads are uploaded successfully. Please check emails/ PM's for link.
Hope you enjoy these as much as the guys had fun making them.
 
Anyone else wanting them, just drop a PM. Can't post the link publically or Hell will open up and a thousand lawyers will escape.
 
John

Friends,
 
Thanks for the interest in these oldies. I think the download link is working fine, and appreciate the feedback.
 
Some confusion about how this all integrates. Here's how I'd approach it if starting with the program and wanting to experiment.
 
Head Case installs from the link above with some default heads. Standard vst.
 
Start menu addition has a link to the Head Installer. Vst's are installed as well without start menu entries. Windows 10 doesn't install a desktop icon for the Head Builder as far as I can see, but the builder is installed as a vst opened by Sonar. You will have to access the Head Builder like a normal vst.
 
The heads from the zip file are installed into the vst by opening the Head Installer function from the start menu.
 
Extract the heads from the zip file to somewhere (jpeg images). Using the Head Installer, click on "install head image". Direct the installer to the location and done, new head is merged into the program.
 
Advice for rolling your own head if you are wanting to experiment. Once the new head (made by someone else) is installed, Head Builder will pick this up as an option. You can then dig into the creation and see what the designer was working on. Means the circuitry as well as the graphic images used to piece the thing together.
 
You can tweak anything, change anything, then publish your own. Would go through the collection and find something that sounds really good. Open up the file in the Builder and go from there with modifications and adjustments.
 
Best to all of you.
 
John

It happened pretty much as John describes it. A shame really. Lot more to the story but not for the public. Just a shame what went down. I thought Head Case was gonna be the next best thing to happen to us guitar players. Ken even had it fixed up as a mobile vst. You can keep it on a USB stick.
 
Ken and his team (there were only two guys!) did the developing. One time, during the development/testing of the speaker emulations (John didn't even mention that stuff, which is another great vst) Ken had us using a EQ that he developed that you could use to create almost any sound you could imagine! That was the greatest thing I had ever tried. I played with that thing for hours! I had a Carvin DC 400 and I could make it sound like any guitar I could think of (think Strat, LP), and I wanted him to release that as an VST but he had other plans.
 
And John is right, when this thing was let out people started creating all sorts of stuff. People from the graphics side got into the act too. It was all ready to take off. And then.....
 
Here we are. PV made a good attempt at what Ken was trying to do. Just doesn't have the sound.
 
 
 

JohnKenn
 
(edit) Hmm... auto censure took out my epithet for the gentleman who crashed the head distribution process. Reference was to the distal orifice or sphincter to the large intestine.

I knew what you meant!! : )
 
 

Grem,
 
Thanks for the reality check on this. Things were off to a great start, then everything crashed for many reasons. Yeah, Ken was doing some amazing things with eqs and filters. Literally things no one had done before.
 
Ken used to be a heavy presence on the Reaper forum. Each day he would crank out a bizarre plugin or two or three. A rare few were quite terrible in all honesty, but some were brilliant. Some were throw to the collective in a half baked alpha state. Guys like me begging for some of the things to be fixed. Still lose sleep over Cyan Ghetto Bass. Bugged alpha that was the finest Byrds 12 string engine in existence.
 
I’ve got everything Ken worked on, regardless of the state he left them in. Can freely give out the heads, since this is what the artists intended. Can’t do the same for his vst’s though without his permission. May follow through on this though. There are some software things that don’t deserve to just drop off the map.
 
Meantime, the AcmeBarGig site on the amp modeling forum may well have some links to crazy vst’s that definitely cannot be had anywhere for any price. Like a treasure hunt for the curious.
 
Grem, should ask you if it is okay to distribute your heads on the private link with mine and the others’.  If I remember right, you came up with some killer stuff that needs to be heard. Thinking about it, will PM you the link to the zip file. Has about 150 heads, but there were many more. I wasn’t as strict at saving the totality of the heads as I was with retaining all Ken’s weird and wonderful plugins.
 
If you have others not in the collection, could we get them merged together into a more complete file.
 
Best,
John

Yeah John, you can distribute it. That's why I (and all of us) made them. To pass out to the community. 
 
I had forgot about Cyan Getto Bass!!
 
His Pick-Up sim was killer too!! 

This is wonderful, Grem.