I don't think it's that difficult to find out how many IRs are used, I could probably do that myself with an RTA and some pink noise.
Maybe you don't care about that level of micro minutia but others care, what's wrong with that? There's no need to tell others to not care about something you don't care.
Personally I find this kind of discussions the most informative and educative for me, and they often educate me on how to verify claims too and establish who did it best despite the claims. Testing and verifying things in first person is what can set you free from companies' claims actually.
Completely understand and I kind of agree with where you are coming from - there is %100
no issue at all with anyone finding these discussions informative and creative - I
wasn't suggesting people shouldn't ..... my comment about "
micro minutia (?)" [with a (?)] was to try and simply highlight
and question - something which Gearzilla much more eloquently and ironically-for-me subsequently made - which perfectly summarized what I was
trying to say.
That is to say, focusing on the color and texture and structure of "one piece of bark on one tree", complexly misses the whole point and beauty of the tree let alone the whole forest.
I.m.o ... in 2023 we are now focusing on
certain "marginal extremes of differences" that are mathematically and technically kind-of-interesting, but again, i.m.h.o, have zero impact on achieving great guitar tones, and to
me, it is becoming, beyond silly.
We seem to be "debating" conflicting-processes, which to me, might be great in the theoretical realm, but have zero impact on the aim of getting the best tones [for me]. Others clearly disagree and find this approach very helpful and useful ...
which is, again, totally fine.
But
I honestly think that "%100
less sweet-f%ck-all" of guitar players / modelling users etc.... couldn't give a "
f%cking tinkers cuss" about, say, the way Fractal are doing their new IR's -vs- how L6 are doing their new IR's.
Purely by way of example, and to highlight my point, the current Fractal approach has the Cap-to-Edge and Position being adjustable in, from what I can tell,
1mm increments .... the L6 Helix is
not as granular.
Does one approach produce objectively, testably better tones ...... no ........ will some "claim" one is "better" than the other ... yes.
My point though is who one earth will
ever hear the difference of moving from 6.87mm from the Cap to 6.88mm from the Cap ... or Positioning from 4.32mm to 4.33mm .... sure it "looks good" on paper and "on the screen" ..... but ..... I'll leave it at that...
And as a side note, how long before we see some with "
God-ears" posting that "when I moved the Cap from 7.82mm to 7.83mm my guitar problems through my "FRFR" were solved and I finally had the amp in the room tone I was always looking for for all these years".
Anyway .... that's all.
Peace to everyone.
Ben "
... apparently now a resentful colon climber ... " Ifin
