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Originally Posted by WildCowboys  guess UBK will also not do it, right? |
i'd be happy to do it, except i don't have q-clone. one of the problems i think you'd face is that, if my understanding is correct, transformers introduce non-linearities into the sound. q-clone doesn't do non-linear iirc.
two other things come to mind: on the one and only occasion when i was in the presence of q-clone, it was used to emulate a vintage 550a module. it didn't come remotely close to affecting the tone in the same way as the hardware, although it did a very respectable job of behaving similarly in terms of eq curves. iow, it seemed to 'grab' the same stuff, it just didn't have the sweetening on top that we were hoping to hear.
i think people truly overestimate the role of the transformers in the sound and underestimate the role of the conversion itself here. before these things got the final thumbsup for production, rich was doing mods. he settled on one he felt clarified the mids, and i had to do it. it was one surface mount resistor, about 1/4 the size of a pinky nail clipping. it changed the tone of the whole path noticeably, it made the conversion truer to the source in the 1-3k range.
the apoges may test flat, but i tell you in all honesty the burls sounded like the console, with a little bit more love. no hype, no exaggeration, just some vague special sauce. the apogees, otoh, did not, they were very different in every respect. again, i'm not here to bash apogees, people love them and it's a perfectly valid sound to want in your arsenal. but *they do have a sound*, and it is not subtle, not to me at least.
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