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The days of "the only way to make music is plugging directly into a vintage amp with a guitar nobody can afford" are over.
Deal with it.

I absolutely agree. In fact, i would be as bold as calling these days as non existing.
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As far as suno goes, the voice along is a tell for a minimally trained ear, but that removed i would not bet that i would be able to recognise AI over human, what i'm saying as a humble music composer is that when i tried to use it as a tool, it did not yet work for me. The fact that it might work better for the larger audience than human work is another matter and i would agree that music composer making a living are definely a thing of the past.

Suno, as a piece of tech is immensely impressive. I fed him some audio with a odd time sig that it used and must have transformed to a virtual instrument somehow sounding close to the original guitar sound.
But ultimately it took a crappy sounding piece of music i liked and made a glorious sounding song i thoroughly disliked.
As a piece of tech impressive, as a music creator not there yet in my opinion.
But what do i know, i still don't own any bitcoin.

Good luck tomorrow Paul.

Pretty cool actually. Three tubes: 2 12ax7 and one 12au7 to replace two "traditional" powertubes, that's really fun, full of tube dynamic.
To be honest, in use it's not very different than the 5w amps that flourished here and there: too loud to get the goods in a practice room.
However, probably bc of the push/pull conf; it's a bit less acid while having even less bass.
Very interesting recording amp that you're not afraid to abuse as a power tube change will cost you a 20 at most.

Hi all,
So recentrly i've been exploring the world of amp & pedal capture. Bought a Tonex, a few neuraldsp plugins, explored AIDAx and NAM and came to the conclusion that tube amps are things from the past.
Who knew?
So i bought a new one, stuck in my 8 square meter office between a twin reverb, a boss katana, a h&k triamp and a Victory Krake, i present to you the Marshal DSL1. A 1W tube amp powered by a 12AY7 used in a push/pull configuration.

It's awesome, loud, does not produce any sort of relevant bass. Awesome.

And here in context, a silly thing i toyed with to test ezdrummer. left is the marshall with a heavily gained tubescreamer in front and right is the amp with nothing at all.
recorded with the cheap royer clone from harley benton.

http://djaaz.free.fr/eztest.mp3

Good to hear that you're home.

It sure did. then, i built probably half a dozen fuzzes this year and as no modeler can capture fuzz for bananas, seems i'll do just as much next year bc i need every each one of them.
That being said. i really recommand taking a look at https://mod.audio/ download the mod desktop app and try it on your pc, mac whatever it is that you use to mainly browse what's remaining of the web.

This thing is really fun.

Thanks for sharing.
I was just starting to investigate arduino based controller for a mod.audio raspberry Pi based modeler/multi pedal. I'll need 4 pots and 3 footswitches.  Yet another world to explore.

A zendrive, can't remember the name of the board.
Tonex, aida & nam models in the same zip.

By the way, you can do your own capture with Aida & Neural amp modeler,they both provide google colab notebooks.

The weird part is that modulation effects and delay are out so it kinda gets limited to distortion.  I have the original Tonex capture box and got some cool caps of my Traynor TS25.  It's a cool tech and I enjoy playing stuff that people upload but haven't had a chance to record anything so it doesn't get used outside of the fun of auditioning other peeps gear.

I like the idea but haven't leaned into using it enough.

Still if you could do generic pedal captures, that would be pretty cool.  Not sure how that would work but a great idea.

You might look at the mod dwarf by mod audio. You get the "best" of both world, you can use aida or nam to capture your amp & pedals and then use programmed modulation and cab sim to get an all in one.
the brother in law with his challenged back traded his pedalboard for the dwarf, only kept the whammy.
Plus, as you can build pedalboard and snapshots within a pedalboard, he found himself focusing on his fingers rather than his feet.
Obviously, looking at his shoes, i found the entire thing a bit sad but to be fair, i did not feel that he sounded any different.

I'm still not completely satisified with my capture process. The reamp box level setup is not plug & play. The audio level output is a bit below the guitar level that i was using to test it. As it was humbuckers, i sort of decided not to correct it.
Neural amp modeler and AIDA are both free & opensource capture & modeler.

First capture is the MOAR which i dearly love and should definitely not be forgotten.

So i bought my way into the future to see if i like it there.
Also bc it was cheap enough.
Long story short: if i don't need to be near silent or travel in a pocket plane, it loses most of its interest.
It is still impressive for some pedal capture and helpful for the rehearsing guy tired of carrying his weight in gear.
If any interest, i'll post some clips of the real and captured pedal.


Which lead to a question: @madbean, any issue with capturing & sharing madbean pedals?

Hi,
Anyone tried to build this one or something like it:
https://www.treefallsound.com/

What is pretty impressive is the possibility offered by mod.audio to build full pedalboard visually in a web interface:

https://mod.audio/

I would'nt. Maybe play it first to figure it out and then find another one to gut when you kind of know what you're chasing?

K, I've never been a wah guy. Only had a considerable amount of time with whatever was programmed onto the POD via the simulated foot controller thingy, and it was awful. I know. Digital effect, but still, just wasn't ever my bag, but I'm thinking about it now.

Couple questions about it all.

1a- The potentiometer
So ICAR just means it's adjusted to compensate for not being able to mechanically (by extension, electronically) move through the total wiper range? Places like amplified parts have wah-centric pots from 100-200k, with 100k being log taper, the others being linear. A bit confused here.

1b- continued
If I've never been a wah guy, am I really going to "notice" the pot's behavior not being "the right way" if I somehow get the "wrong one?"

1c- continued
If I want to avoid the MiC product out there, what's a decent one that isn't going to cost upwards of half the cost of a decent wah shell kit? (I've seen >$20 ones and struggle to understand)

2- to avoid contention (based on what I've seen elsewhere on the web), I don't want to start a "what's better" war, but what's the general character differences between Fasel and non-F style inductors?

3- Weener or neener?

Hi Chris, i was hoping someone would enlighten us both. I can tell you abou
My first wah is a vox v847 that i bought in the 90's based on ones opinion that it was the "real" wah. I added a dunlop crybaby and then way later built a few project including madbean wah project (The one madbean project i did not like much).

I had to make a few fix to the vox to add a 9v dc input that mine did not have and a led bc you want to know when this thing is on. I changed the pot bc it was scratchy, i ordered the part in the "wah part" section of musikding without giving it any thoughts and did not notice anything different.
https://www.musikding.de/Blacktop-Deluxe-100k-ICAR_1

On the weener wah, the madbean project, i used a eye rock inductor supposedly wounded by hand during a full moon night under a rain of unicorn tears. Did not blow my mind but i would fault the builder first and i never cared enough to revisit it.

At the end of the day i prefer my vox wah to the dunlop if played side by side, i can't tell them apart as soon as volume, focus on playing or other musician are involved.
Most of the time i have to take it out of its cute mustard bag to plug it, so most of the time i don't bc i'm lazy. I was even thinking of buying this micro Mooer wah bc at least it can stay on a pedalboard that is not the size of Canada.

I would go for a used crybaby, there's ton of them. They're cheap, the shell will outlive you and you'll have something to experiment and destroy.