Fractal Talk

[James Freeman]

I must be at least a black belt in waiting, baby I can wait sooo good.

 

[duzie]

 

[State of Epicicity]

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

Ughh I really didn't need to read this --->

A lot of it is about transient energy storage. A tube amp stores a LOT of energy. Take a typical 100W tube amp like a Diezel. It will typically have 220uF of reservoir capacitance and a B+ of 450V. The energy stored is 22.3 Joules!!!

Now take a typical consumer Class-D "500W" power amp (actual continuous power about 100W). They usually have voltage rails around 50V and 680uF or so of capacitance. The energy stored (assuming bipolar supplies) is 1.7 Joules.

The tube amp has over 13 times the energy storage. So those palm mute transients are reproduced accurately. The Class-D amp runs out of gas.

For example, if your transient duration is, say, 100ms, and you're pushing a full 100W then the energy required is 10 Joules. The Class-D amp simply can't do it.

It's one of my pet peeves. People use cheap, low-end, consumer grade Class-D power amps and then make bold proclamations that the models don't sound as good as the real amp without understanding even a lick of the physics involved.

I put an Axe-Fx through a Crown X2 once and it Marty McFly'd me.

Thank you very Much @FractalAudio

Stone - make sure you are keeping in mind the volume at which YOU play when reading stuff like this.

 

[duzie]

 

[DrewJD82]

Stone - make sure you are keeping in mind the volume at which YOU play when reading stuff like this.

Yep. I’m not bothered by the Class D amps mainly due to the fact I haven’t had the need to crank the shit out of them. Every gig I did with them I was well under the 100-watt tube amp volume. At bedroom/living room levels I personally can’t tell a difference between a tube amp and a modeler, but I do not have any doubt that once things get cooking the differences will start showing considerably.

 

[SwirlyMaple]

Hot off the press! Eagle #2 has landed. It’s time to get Fracking again!!!

Update: This one boots and the screen stays on.

 

[Frodebro]

Thread title: FRACTAL TALK
Thread contents: INCEST, INBREEDING, CASTLES, HORROR WRITERS, and DIDDLING COUSIN SUZY.

What kind of forum you running here @DrewJD82

This is diversity in its rawest form. Yep.

 

[la szum]

Damn Have to say Dynacabs are the shitz
working on my new patch and dialing the Toanz with the Dynacabs was like Wow !
I Used Channel B to compare them to other IR's in A and C

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That Amp Model is perfection! Love it.

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Nothing to speak of with my family, but my girlfriend is a descendant of King Henry the VIII! Not sure which of his dead wives was mom!!

Congrats to the Fractal product deliveries today! I LOVE swapping the tubes in both the amps and preamps. It just fascinates me how much of a difference the tubes alone can make. My favorites have pretty much been anything JJ or Tung. Not sure why but I have tested a LOT and I always end up settling on one of those, whether it is an 6V6GT Tung, EL84 JJ, KT66 JJ, 6CA7 JJ or other. Currently using the KT66 JJ in the FAS Buttery amp as my primary amp but have been playing with the FAS Class A as well. Preamp on the Buttery I am using the 12AX7A JJ. Fun stuff ;~))

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

The thing about Fractals is no matter how deep you go, you can always go deeper

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

Hot off the press! Eagle #2 has landed. It’s time to get Fracking again!!!

Update: This one boots and the screen stays on.

 

[fretworn]

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

That’s what she said?

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

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Easy peasy. (I'm not Al, but you get the idea.)

 

[BenIfin]

.....

Hey Cliff !

Not sure how to ask this so I'll be as "legal-ezy" as I can:-

=> is your idea or plan for a "hybrid" approach ie: Profiling Amp X in conjunction with the Amp Model of Amp X still a possibility (?) or is it essentially "off the table" ?

Genuinely interested and curious :)

Thanks,
Ben

 

[jellodog]

Ben, you don't have to sign every post like it's a goddamn formal letter!

Forever your humble servant,

Jello "Jellodog" Dog esq.

 

[SwirlyMaple]

Ben, you don't have to sign every post like it's a goddamn formal letter!

Forever your humble servant,

Jello "Jellodog" Dog esq.

But you do have to admit it gives it more of a personal touch.

Furiously fracking feverishly,

S'maple Q. S'more

 

[holoholo]

But you do have to admit it gives it more of a personal touch.

Furiously fracking feverishly,

S'maple Q. S'more

Have a good one,

3EO HH

Cc: @paisleywookiee

 

[BenIfin]

Ben, you don't have to sign every post like it's a goddamn formal letter!

Forever your humble servant,

Jello "Jellodog" Dog esq.

But you do have to admit it gives it more of a personal touch.

Furiously fracking feverishly,

S'maple Q. S'more

Have a good one,

3EO HH

Cc: @paisleywookiee

What can I say ... Im a courteous kind of guy :)

Then again " Ben Ifin esq. the 3rd " has a nice ring to it