Part 2 (Properly recording guitars with AMP SIMS!)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- Hopefully we as guitar players can look forward with more clarity. I really think the problem is we are all at different stages. And different levels of knowledge. And hopefully we can help each other out rather than bash each other going forward. So lets have fun let me know how old is the interface your operating from?
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I'm a noob at music production so all this info is very handy, Thanks for the great explanation!
Glad that I was able to help!
Holy backtrack! A few notes, gain still will not increase the sensitivity of a microphone, in the same way increasing the exposure does not increase the sensitivity of a camera. Signal that wasnt there before will not suddenly appear when gain is applied. Interesting decision to still ignore the phrase "signal to noise ratio" and instead still being stuck on this "noise floor" concept. Sm57s do not use springs, but diaphragms. If you are using a DI box it wont matter how new your interface is you will need gain. In the video you bring up where he "admits to lying" if you actually read the comment he admits to using a noisier interface to make the difference more apparent, not that this issue is not a problem on newer interfaces. Neural DSPs statement explains how they themselves design their sims, not how you should do things all the time. The important number the mention is -13 dbfs, which is not a standard (another issue that was mentioned in the video you didnt watch). And guess what, lets say you have a signal coming into their amp sim that is less or more than that number, youd have to (say it with me) GAIN STAGE. Gain staging is still done in the studio, in your rant about how it is not done while tracking you litterally say that you set the gain. Its ok to be wrong. These concepts mean a lot to those who understand them, and if you can have your work flow make good music without understanding them, more power too you. But dont tell the people who actually understand what is being discussed that they are stupid or wrong when you dont understand what they are talking about.
www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=is+gain+sensitivity+control&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
You can do a simple google search and find your errors on gain...... I explained the mic incorrectly though. About the coil it's not the whole process of how it works. So yes you were more correct.
@Chelitosuav The source you have linked has no relevance to the discussion if you took the time to read it.
I tried to link actually relevant sources that showcase why you are incorrect, but youtube does not allow me to post links. However "NOT the same! Microphone Gain vs Sensitivity" By Randy Rektor should explain things in a very digestible way for you.
In short, I think you are conflating input sensitivity of a interface with microphone sensitivity. This is very easy to test, take a signal generator and watch as the volume increases and decreases as you adjust the gain, despite the signal generator not outputting any more signal than it has before. In fact, the way preamps are designed prevent the incoming signal from being changed at all, every increase in volume happens post an input buffer.
These types of differences matter to advanced studio engineers, which is maybe why you have not encountered an issue with your misunderstanding in your own personal production work flow. But for the people who are designing the tools that you use, this type of distinction is important.
I am not going to lie I forgot that there different on a technicality. But now I remember why audio engineers don't waist there time separating them. Because technically it's still wrong to say sensitivity is different. Because gain is measurement of how much of the mic sensitivity I wish to access. Therefore Sensitivity without gain is a circle its pointless. If my only way to access sensitivity of a mic is gain. It is fair to say that gain is increasing the sensitivity. So I gain up an access more of the mics potential sensitivity. I still am making the mic on a technical scale more sensitive. Because I accessed more of it. So in a nut shell since you want to go analyze everything. Gain is a potentiometer that sets the amount of sensitivity I wish to access. But in that same terminology saying gain increases sensitivity is more correct than incorrect. I don't like making audio more complicated than it has to be. So yes gain on a more technical level is sensitivity. It's a measurement for how much id like to access. There fore making it increase the sensitivity of the mic or anything. So to simplify it because it doesn't help anyone to separate them gain is sensitivity.
@@Chelitosuav Do whatever mental gymnastics you need to do to always be right man
@@ItsTakeingTooLongso are you telling me gain doesn’t give me access to the sensitivity of the mic?