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Amplifiers - Dumb Question
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Tomos
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Posted : Mar 31, 2006 05:57
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Please go easy- this is probably a really stupid question :
I've heard that external analogue equipment can add a 'warm' sound to your music. I'm a bit of a hi-fi nut and I have a really rather good valve amp in the house. If I were to run my mix (or parts of my mix) through it and record the results. Could it give a similar result to some professional outboard production equipment, or am I barking up the wrong tree entirely?
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Alex - Aural Invasion
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Posted : Mar 31, 2006 08:37
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fx good compressors with nice tubes in can add very nice warm to a timbre! |
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Tomos
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Posted : Mar 31, 2006 09:46
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I think you misunderstand. This is not an FX amp, this is actually what I use to drive regular speakers. |
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FluoSamsara (Oxygen)
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Posted : Mar 31, 2006 12:18
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No, not stupid at all 
Actually passing the sound through consumer tube amps is a very used technique used by some engineers to add some warmth to some sounds
However, you should NEVER connect your tube amp speaker outputs directly to your soundcard inputs, you should connect them to a DI first (with an attenuation pad of 20-40dB) and then connect the DI to your inputs.
Some info here:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr98/articles/diboxes.html
If u do it, let us know how where the results
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UnderTow
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Posted : Apr 1, 2006 00:17
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FluoSamsara makes an important point there about using the DI!
I think a good tube amp should be quite clean and linear within it's normal operating range so to get it to start distorting (in a pleasant way) you would have to drive it quite hard. I don't know if I would want to do that to a nice hi-fi tube amp.
Worth a try but don't push it too hard I would say.
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martyn
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Posted : Apr 1, 2006 11:52
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i sent a signal from a vst through a preamp (art tube amp) and sent it back into the soundcard. i was very satisfied, the signal got more warmth and "weight" after. good for basslines ;-) doesn't work good with every signal tho.
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