Digital Trend

[TwinACStacks]

EVER notice how many members, new and Experienced, (including yours truly), have gone over to the Digital side because of a Shitty discontinued JMD1 Amp?


It should make one think....

You have no idea of the Power of the Darkside.

TWIN

 

[chadd]

Eventually, that's where most people will be. The processing power grows so much with every new generation or hardware. I really like the approach that Kemper took with their profiling amp, I just wish they had more resources to push the development further. For the record, I do not own a digital amp, only an FX box.

 

[JayCM800]

 

[JayCM800]

EVER notice how many members, new and Experienced, (including yours truly), have gone over to the Digital side because of a Shitty discontinued JMD1 Amp?


It should make one think....

You have no idea of the Power of the Darkside.

TWIN

The onset of senility?

 

[Steve Naples]

I have a Fender modelng amp, it does sound really good, it's 100w, has a Celestion speaker and gets the job done when I need to do something quickly. But I love my JCM and DSL and those are where I spend most of my time still. I don't even use any digital effects except in my modeling amp.

When I bought it I wanted to get a 6505 or DSL, but they didn't fit what I needed at the time, then I started looking for a Marshall modeling type of amp, like the Vypr and the Mustang, nope none there. So bought the Fender.

 

[poeman33]

I have an old Digitech Genesis, and my Cubase has a pretty good modeller in it. They are fun to play with I admit. But nothing makes me feel the same as when those tubes warm up and start pushing out that tone. There is just nothing like it.

Modelling is still in a pretty early stage when you think about how long it took Marshall to get "that" sound. Tube amps had been out for awhile. I'm sure things will only improve with the modellers. Especially if that is where the market ends up being.

 

[duncan11]

Call me an old dinosaur, but if I have to hook my amp up to a computer to get it 'dialed in' vs. tweaking knobs on the front, it's a fad and a toy if you ask me. The amount of time you spend 'dialing in' these digial amps could be spent actually playing! I am not just knocking it, I HAVE tried modeling amps and effects etc...I just resigned myself it's not for me. And it's not as if I couldn't understand the tech, as I'm an IT professional, I just don't think it sounds all that great over traditional stuff. If you like it, cool, all the power to ya, but I'll stick with my old technology tube driven plexi.

 

[Ken]

Eventually all amps will be digital because they will sound and feel better than a tube amp. The only reason we're not there yet is the price points are still too high for the quality guitarists demand.

What would a 'JMD-2' cost today? And how close to a DSL-H will that be?

Ken

 

[duncan11]

Eventually all amps will be digital because they will sound and feel better than a tube amp. The only reason we're not there yet is the price points are still too high for the quality guitarists demand.

What would a 'JMD-2' cost today? And how close to a DSL-H will that be?

Ken

purely subjective, and I don't think it will ever reach 'across the board' status with widespread acceptance. Besides, then no one will want to shell out 3K for vintage tube amps anymore!

 

[LPMarshall hack]

Pretty soon we will have a program that plays the guitar for us. We can just sit back and do the dishes while still "playing" guitar. Unless you have a dishwasher, then you can just sit back and watch the guitar.

 

[blues_n_cues]

Pretty soon we will have a program that plays the guitar for us. We can just sit back and do the dishes while still "playing" guitar. Unless you have a dishwasher, then you can just sit back and watch the guitar.

if I got rid of the dishwasher I could put a 2x12 in it's place.

 

[LPMarshall hack]

Just a 2 x 12?????

 

[poeman33]

Just a 2 x 12?????

It's digital...it will have 24 two inch speakers and a subwoofer.

 

[blues_n_cues]

Just a 2 x 12?????

a 4x10 might fit.

 

[MartyStrat54]

It's digital...it will have 24 two inch speakers and a subwoofer.

Foolardi, is that you?

 

[Petri358]

My gear of shame from mid 90's

Br: Rank amateur

 

[anitoli]

This is an analog signal in a normal amp:

This is YOUR guitar in a digital amp:

0111010001001000100101110001010001010011000100010010011001001010010001001
0100100111000010001001001100011001100011100011000111001100111010001001110
0001010100111110100111101000101010011111000111000110001110001110001101010
0011010111110101111001111101111110111111101111100000011000000000010000111

Any Questions?

 

[The Ozzk]

This is an analog signal in a normal amp:

This is YOUR guitar in a digital amp:

0111010001001000100101110001010001010011000100010010011001001010010001001
0100100111000010001001001100011001100011100011000111001100111010001001110
0001010100111110100111101000101010011111000111000110001110001110001101010
0011010111110101111001111101111110111111101111100000011000000000010000111

Any Questions?

What happens when you amplify the digital signal with a sweet EL34 power section? (JMD1)

 

[Petri358]

what happens when you amplify the digital signal with a sweet el34 power section? (jmd1)

0111010
001001000100101110001010
001010011000100010001011
10011001001010010001001
01001001110000100010010
10001110001110001101010
00110101111101011110011
11101111110111111101111
1000 0001100000000001001

 

[anitoli]

But it wont be digital. It HAS to be converted back to analog for that function to happen.