[sdiy] Advice

[Ingo Debus]

Am Dienstag, 03.02.04 um 01:19 Uhr schrieb Glen:

> If a tube emulation plugin makes the person happy, that's great. I just
> don't think it will sound like the real thing. Then again, perhaps it 
> might
> not need to sound like the real thing--perhaps it just needs to sound 
> good
> in its own way.
>

Recently I picked up an interesting book: "Gitarrenverstaerker 
selbstgebaut" (German) by Gerhard Haas.
He took the time and measured the distortion of a standard preamp; with 
five different tube brands (but all were ECC83) and three different 
source impedances. It's amazing how different the results are.
So if a tube emulation emulates one real circuit perfectly, it may be 
very different if another brand of tube was used in the circuit, or 
just a different source impedance.

Ingo