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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Killer Bean? What year is it!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The DSL40 sounds very appealing indeed, and not too pricey. I'll go around and look for it at the local guitar store. I've also frequently seen those Katanas mentioned above which I'll have to try. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Hoping to figure this out around $500. I don't need loads of power so that should help the budget.

I don't have experience with amp modellers in the FX loop. This works differently from multi-fx pedals with preamp simulations? I plug my guitar into my GT-1, which goes into the instrument input of my amp (a Rumble 100). No matter what I tweak with this setup, I fail to get it to sound believably "classic rock" so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes I should've specified. It's a Rumble 100. Yeah, that's a bass amp as I was primarily playing bass when I bought it. It does sound surprisingly excellent when I play clean-ish guitar through it, but with the GT-1 I can't quite get a satisfying overdrive tone, no matter what pre-amp simulation I select on the GT1. With the amp set to clean, 0 gain. The master volume is plenty to make it loud. But yeah, I just can't get this combination to reproduce what I'm looking for.

Perhaps it's the speaker cone itself which is holding it back. I hadn't considered that yet. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Do you do poison?

 

I mostly play and enjoy the sound of "classic" metal. 1980s Judas Priest. Metallica. Maiden. Etc.

What's a good amp/fx setup to reproduce this sound at modest volumes?

I have a friend with a Marshall stack, which sounds amazing but I have neither the budget or the space for something like this. I currently have a Fender amp with a Boss GT-1 effects pedal, which is quite good but no matter what I do I never quite get this to reproduce the tone I'm looking for.

Will a small Marshall combo amp like a MG30GFX work for me? Does it make sense to go for low-wattage tube amps over solid state? Thoughts?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

According to the article this system also detects power outages and shuts off when they happen. Just like full-scale solar power systems. But yeah, no physical kill switch.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I enjoy opamps. Texas Instruments LME49723 is one of my favorites :P

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

By asking this question you're already ahead.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing regular non-LP DDR works fine socketed in desktops because power is nearly a non-issue. Need to burn a few watts to guarantee signal integrity? We've got a chonky PSU, so no problem. On mobile devices however every watt matters..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I doubt doing it in software like that outperforms sqrtss/sqrtsd. Modern CPUs can do the conversions and the floating point sqrt in approximately 20-30 cycles total. That's comparable to one integer division. But I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Well, yeah, but you asked why they didn't use integer sqrt. It's something many programming languages just don't have. Or if they do, it's internally implemented as a sqrt(f64) anyway, like C++ does.

Most CPUs AFAIK don't have integer sqrt instructions so you either do it manually in some kind of loop, or you use floating point...

 

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