Lookin for love in all the wrong places...and finding it!

[Bob Zaod]

People will laugh but I have always loved the GSP2101 Speaker Compensation sim. It's old AF and I have no idea if it's convoluted or or sine tested or contains dilithium crystals but what I do know is it's very pleasant to my ears.

Well. I am working at home and dubbing around with Helix patches through my hybrid PA and tube amp rig and I ran into a DSP conundrum where the only thing I could remove and get what I wanted "effect -wise" was the IR on the PA path. What the heck I said (I said worse actually) let's try the GSP2101 Speaker Compensation cab in my Soundcraft ui24R mixer ( it has almost an entire RP500 built in). So I removed the IR and crossed my fingers as I enabled that sim in my mixer and..

WHAM-O! It sounds fantastic and right now I am enjoying it more than any of the IR's I typically use. Granted this is a super high gain patch I am working on so I haven't tried it with anything not high gain. Gotta re-iterate how good this speaker sim is at least for high gain sounds.

Well off to try it with clean to grind.

 

[JT]

Seriously; once you find the IR you like....move on. I don't care if it's cab emulation from a 20year old Behringer DI box or 'insert whatever brand new hyperealistic speaker emulation plug-in with "next gen tech" here'. If you like it enough to keep jamming with it; move on to the next problem.

 

[Bob Zaod]

Seriously; once you find the IR you like....move on. I don't care if it's cab emulation from a 20year old Behringer DI box or 'insert whatever brand new hyperealistic speaker emulation plug-in with "next gen tech" here'. If you like it enough to keep jamming with it; move on to the next problem.

Yeah I am definitely an overthinker. It's probably why I'm so drawn to modeling stuff cos there's so many options typically.

 

[Bruce]

Seriously; once you find the IR you like....move on. I don't care if it's cab emulation from a 20year old Behringer DI box or 'insert whatever brand new hyperealistic speaker emulation plug-in with "next gen tech" here'. If you like it enough to keep jamming with it; move on to the next problem.

I have a Palmer PDI-03 and you know something? It’s really not bad sounding at all!

 

[JT]

I have a Palmer PDI-03 and you know something? It’s really not bad sounding at all!

There are guys elsewhere who get great tone who use the Palmer stuff. Analog cab sims have a good following from all I have read over the years. Despite there being all sorts of advancements in the digital world.

 

[Bruce]

There are guys elsewhere who get great tone who use the Palmer stuff. Analog cab sims have a good following from all I have read over the years. Despite there being all sorts of advancements in the digital world.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I actually use it but I have one sitting ready to go. It sounded good the times I’ve tracked it. I really like two notes WOS these days for the desk and for gigs whatever I can dig up off the fractal stuff. Sometimes I’ll just use the Amp from the fractal into WOS then go outboard eventide. Depends how spirited I am and what I’m working on.

 

[Baba]

Seriously; once you find the IR you like....move on. I don't care if it's cab emulation from a 20year old Behringer DI box or 'insert whatever brand new hyperealistic speaker emulation plug-in with "next gen tech" here'. If you like it enough to keep jamming with it; move on to the next problem.

So much this.

 

[KingsXJJ]

The 2101 was a fun unit. Using Grunge on your high gain preset?

 

[gumtown]

I suddenly remembered a joke about the guy who got Herpes in his eyes, he was...

Lookin for love in all the wrong places...and finding it!​

 

[Fireproof]

If loving this is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.