But does it make you wait two minutes before you can use it? Does the gain slowly decrease as the plugin ages until one day the virtual heater melts and it stops working altogether until you buy another one?
 
Or once a year you have to remove it and re-insert it because the virtual socket has become corroded? Really, if we're shooting for true "analog modeling"...

 
i use 2 if i need stereo

I'd love to see the "model" of that...

that ART unit, is just a solid state circuit, with some harmonic distortion added by a starved plate 12ax7.
 
not really a tube circuit at all.

it's got a tube in it!! it lights up!! sounds, mm, warm :-P

yep,.
 
 
LOL
 
warm = distortion

Batsbrew is pretty much right. A Starved plate design is not a real tube pre. It's really an effect. If you want to hear the difference, borrow a Summit 2BA-221 or a UA-710 from someone and compare that to the starved plate design. You'll see they're more inline with what's sought after for tube pre's on a budget. The Tube pre's will have better definition and warmth in ways that make instruments and vocals sound better, not distort them to the point the imaging is shallow and smeared. I have two of the starved plate designs. They're good if you are not critical of the tube-y ness, but for a real depth and 3D image, they simply don't offer that.

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"EQUIPMENT DOES NOT MATTER."™

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mike_mccue
"EQUIPMENT DOES NOT MATTER."™

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Were they talking about Cafe Colada?