Posts by Spector Aurelius

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    "I don't have the SIM-1 but I don't think It will be Exactely the same thing With Guitars.. because I like the physical interaction between me and the guitar.. different body shape, controls position, shape of the neck, frets.. it gives a sort of Physical/Emotional feedback You Can't reproduce anyhow else than actually Playing That particoular guitar."


    I definitevely have one guitar that feels best, because a lightweight les paul gives the most haptic feedback of the sound. I guess an even lighter one would get you more of that feel.


    A heavier LP does not feel like that, but it has unique sound properties, much more push forward, but sometimes much dess dyamics.


    By having a sim1, you can feel the lightweight (also your back), but you could have a heavy sound with dynamics.


    Guess I rather wait for kemper having that built in, rather than buying sim1,


    With the kemper community, you can probably play thousands of different guitars rather than dozens.


    btw: has the guitar and/or pickup simulator already been put to the feature request forum?

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    –> Seems lime a solution coming close to what I thought of. ?

    Like a first feasibility study.


    And then you do the same with the target guitar?


    What's missing is how to transform the baseline guitar to the target guitar, or did I miss something?

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    ... but maybe it would only be good for 99% of the Blacky-Sim players to realize that the myth is not the guitar itself, but the interaction of the player with the real guitar ?


    But if these players don't have to buy Blacky for that insight, they save billions of money!

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    Another tip for additional gear, thx.


    But what I'm dreaming about could probably be realized with a 150€ worth software add-on for Kemper allowing to realize many of these tips.


    Another cue for the science and software guys:

    Think of a deep neural network trained to imitate Claptons Blacky

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    Yes, the haptic feeling is the most inspiring thing, I agree.

    When you feel what you hear, the music is much more striking.

    That's kinda simulation of synaesthesia (i.e. here a cross-modal link between sound and touch)


    I think I will try out a variax guitar, as well, thx.


    Nevertheless, having my light and resonant LP59 copy being able to simulate the bass "darkness" of a heavy old LP custom. That would be great. Let's see whether sim1 can do that.


    Heavy customs push and march forward, no matter what, if you know what I mean. But I miss the dynamics here.


    So in the end, you would have a haptically intense guitar, which can also simulate heavy guitar sounds.

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    That would be an excellent Master thesis for a tone engineer or physicist, and I could think of many models how to approach that problem of interactions between frequency and phase information.


    reminds me of physicist demystifying stradivaries, e.g.


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  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    Yes, that's true.


    From a scientific perspective of psychological experiments, this could be conceptualized as follows:


    Stimulus A: Picking note A

    Response A: The tone A

    SA -> RA

    We call this a main effect and the same would be true for tone B


    Now for two tones:

    SA & SB -> RA + RB + (RA * RB)


    The latter term (product) is called an interaction effect and can be modeled as matrix/scalar product for interactions of different frequencies.


    Sorry, for so much science, but it would be necessary for de-mystifying guitars, if we want that?

    maybe myth is actually more fun?

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    the thing with the guitar robot is: it has to pick slightly, it has to pick strong, and then see measure the dynamics of the guitar. it has to pick chords to measure how the tones interact.


    ... measure the harmonic spectrum elicited


    so you may be able to try out, what would be the best guitar for your style.


    also good for trying different guitars via software, so you don't have to go to the store physically to try a guitar. would be good corona-inspired invention: good things follow from bad things, frequently.

  • Simulating pickups and guitars?

    ok, I understand: of course it is important how the guitar feels!


    much like the kemper does sound excellent. but a real amp gives you a different feeling, because of vibes the kemper cannot copy, maybe with the new box?


    i actally love my little vox 4 Watt amp more than my kemper, but it is really cool for making a good selection which amp to buy, from the perspective of the audience who does not feel the resonance in a haptic fashion.


    It would sound like a recorded guitar, but not feel like the guitar itself.