THE AMP SIM PLUGIN THREAD

paisleywookiee said:
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They've always had an ear for modeling accuracy to real world amps.









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This just arrived, always been curious why different JMP-1 models sound so different when (tolerances aside) setting them the same should be quite easy.

I can get Fractal sounding very close, obviously disabling power amp modelling and then dialling the active EQ by ear as the ranges/scaling seems different. STL Amphub sounds very similar too. Amplitube 5 sounds sort of OK, but not too close. Hard to tell if there is some power amp modelling involved but Im assuming so. Nembrini sounds totally different, which I'm baffled by.

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MirrorProfiles said:
This just arrived, always been curious why different JMP-1 models sound so different when (tolerances aside) setting them the same should be quite easy.

I can get Fractal sounding very close, obviously disabling power amp modelling and then dialling the active EQ by ear as the ranges/scaling seems different. STL Amphub sounds very similar too. Amplitube 5 sounds sort of OK, but not too close. Hard to tell if there is some power amp modelling involved but Im assuming so. Nembrini sounds totally different, which I'm baffled by.

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Are you able to get anything legitimately from the 1959 and 2203 camp out of this preamp, or is it geared more towards the higher gained and compressed stuff?

It seems like such a cool preamp.
 
EOengineer said:
Are you able to get anything legitimately from the 1959 and 2203 camp out of this preamp, or is it geared more towards the higher gained and compressed stuff?

It seems like such a cool preamp.
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I wouldn’t say it does the 2203/plexi type sounds very well at all. It’s probably in part to my own tastes, but Around the Fur by Deftones is how I’d describe its tone. Maybe some overlap with the early Valvestates and TSL/JCM900. The palm mutes are fast and tight, it’s naturally quite midrangey but you can scoop it like an ADA MP1. Obviously running it into a valve poweramp with a hefty dose of presence and depth, it evens out the midrange to something big and balanced.

I’d say as well as deftones, it would do that Tony Hawk style punk well if you lower the gain a bit. I think it’s too fast/compressed/tight to do “classic” Marshall sounds.

I think I heard Michael Nielsens demo where the lower gain+compression+midrange honk sounded very ZZ Top.

A JVM or DSL based preamp would probably do a better job at doing “classic” Marshall, although the poweramp is so important for those….
 
EOengineer said:
anything legitimately from the 1959 and 2203 camp
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JMP-1 has absolutely zero treble peaking on the gain pot, it shines with jazz chorus equivalent clean (read DI) and high gain lead, where the solid state clipping front end (from JCM900) gives you palm mute power without needing a boost.

anything JMP-1 that's not either "on" or "off" in the gain domain is kind of an "industrial metal sound effect", (read "lifeless" static) which is great if that's what you want, ran through a refrigerator of effects that's "the" sound of an era. But it's not at all like a Triaxis that gives you all the in between shades of real liquid gain and 15 years of real mesa edge of breakup tones. JMP-1 is a 1u yellow crowbar
 
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