Cool experiment. The only thing you need to understand is the principle of gain staging. With analog gear, things are happening in stages, and it's possible to clip one stage while not clipping another. This will make a source sound distorted but may not register as clipping when it hits your converters. For example, preamps offering two stages of gain have two stages where they can clip. This is why when you were turning up the gain on the red knob, at one point, you stopped getting the corresponding gain at the converters. You were getting the maximum gain that stage can give you (in short, distorting it). In short: Stage 1: Source + Input Transformer (sometimes these add gain as a byproduct of impedance conversion) + Neve Input Gain (red knob) Stage 2: Output gain + Output Transformer Stage 3: Convertors Any of these stages can clip independently of one another. Once you get this, you can get really creative with how you saturate your sources. Hope this helps.
@@triplebeam23 Actually I just finished filming the video and... this UAD 1073 emulation is.. impressive. No spoiler but you'll have to see the vid when I post it soon....I'm not sure I haven't tested Pultec- myself though :) Maybe I will have to do that ASAP based on what you're saying🤔
@@heerobigby True. But still with endless computing power it would always be precision against speed. If you code it to use a sliding window of 1 second that refreshes every frame it would indeed require more computing power and the animation would be somewhat smoother but not faster. Peaks in the audio spectrum would rise and fall slowly. You can see this behavior very well in Span.
Bro your amp is more expensive than your Scarlett, and you are doing this kind of test? Wtf... You hear the sound of your worst equipment, main audio rule. Sell some of this analog and buy a real sound interface bro...
cool experiment 🍻
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Cool experiment. The only thing you need to understand is the principle of gain staging.
With analog gear, things are happening in stages, and it's possible to clip one stage while not clipping another. This will make a source sound distorted but may not register as clipping when it hits your converters. For example, preamps offering two stages of gain have two stages where they can clip. This is why when you were turning up the gain on the red knob, at one point, you stopped getting the corresponding gain at the converters. You were getting the maximum gain that stage can give you (in short, distorting it). In short:
Stage 1: Source + Input Transformer (sometimes these add gain as a byproduct of impedance conversion) + Neve Input Gain (red knob)
Stage 2: Output gain + Output Transformer
Stage 3: Convertors
Any of these stages can clip independently of one another. Once you get this, you can get really creative with how you saturate your sources. Hope this helps.
I wonder how much difference is shown when comparing the hardware 1073 to the UAD plugin
very interested to see this
Hey thanks for watching bro! Perhaps I’ll buy a month of UAD Spark and try it out if people are interested.. 🤔
I'm interested!
UAD is so overrated .. put there pultec through plugin doctor.. zero harmonics .. and that goes for the voice of God
@@triplebeam23 Actually I just finished filming the video and... this UAD 1073 emulation is.. impressive. No spoiler but you'll have to see the vid when I post it soon....I'm not sure I haven't tested Pultec- myself though :) Maybe I will have to do that ASAP based on what you're saying🤔
It's not a matter of computing power to calculate a more precise spectral graph, the graph just needs more audio samples to become more precise.
which, at a high refresh rate, requires more computing power :)
@@heerobigby True. But still with endless computing power it would always be precision against speed. If you code it to use a sliding window of 1 second that refreshes every frame it would indeed require more computing power and the animation would be somewhat smoother but not faster. Peaks in the audio spectrum would rise and fall slowly. You can see this behavior very well in Span.
what a lucky gal!!
100% agree
Edit: it’s me, I’m the gal.
@@bethanyreid1023 thanks for taking it in stride. not my best joke...what a lucky couple to have found each other on this big ball :)
Aliasing is a digital phenomenon so you shouldn't see it when clipping the preamp, unless you were also clipping some where in the digital realm.
That's not aliasing...
You might want to check the Hammerstein Analysis in Plugin Doctor...
lol. wtf?!
stop smoking so much weed bro!
I don’t smoke weed at all, I have eye problems 😢
why am I watching this bs.
Because you clicked on it. Hope this helps!
The world doesn’t need you…
Bro your amp is more expensive than your Scarlett, and you are doing this kind of test? Wtf... You hear the sound of your worst equipment, main audio rule. Sell some of this analog and buy a real sound interface bro...
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I plan to upgrade to Clarett+ pretty soon, not that I think it would make much a difference for this sort of test. Cheers
But you’re here criticizing, how ironicC experts shouldn’t be here 😅