Tuesday-evening April 12th

Special Line 6 User Group Meeting; Vetta

 

Go to page 6; Page 7 from several pages.

 

Not only technique, ears aswell..

Steve: There was a question about when it all comes together, is it basically right?
Then you come to that place where you’re maybe 80% there, where everybody says yes we’re on the right track and then it’s just (Steve putting his hands to his ears) ears, it’s people with ears and just reinforcing what you said earlier Darrell. It not just sound designers, it engineers too, they all have guitars in their offices and many of them are really good players and they’ve been around for a long time.

Everything we know on paper, everything we know technically, everything we were able to measure, draw or capture is were we want it to be but it’s not quite right. Then you come to a point where it is impossible to describe the interactive process to get it to the place where it is doing those right things, or as Darrell said in some cases the ‘broken’ things.

 

 

Leakage..

Steve:The obvious one, the AC leakage on the AC30 where and when we realize that what we hear is a kind off grind in the amp. The 60 Herz mains heterodyning against the audio signals of what you are playing and when we kinda realized that it was gone, we talked to the engineers and talked about putting it back in. The senior engineer in the company well he was like his head exploded!! He was like. NO, WADDAYOUMEAN??? and it was that hard to get that out and now you want that all back in?? (laughter about the way Steve explaining it, using his mimic and voice).

It was kinda interesting to see, not only did they put it back in, but they put it back in to the point where we could say, well that could pass, we could hear the different version and hear the leakage and tell; that one was just a few months old, and that one  many months older.
So we can tweak it and tune it until you get / decide on how much of it is going to be in there.

 

Finding Harmonics..

Darrell: Parallel on the guitar for instance if you have a guitar with a tailpiece as opposed to a solid bridge. We are able, as we got into it, the strings between the tail piece and the bridge was contributing harmonics and overtones, well that was a big component of a Bigsby or that kind of sound. So we’re able to add those things into a guitar, a really bizarre things that you don’t really necessarily think they are in there.