Vintage TDM/RTAS manual

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T able of Contents Contact Details.......................................................................................................................... ... ... ..3 Support........................................................................................................................... .... ... ... ... ... ... 4 System Requirements....[...]

Contact Details If you would lik e to g et in touch with Softube, please e-mail info@sof tube.com. Alternativ ely , you could use the phone or send an old-fashioned mail (do you remember env elopes, stamps and paper?) to: Sof tube AB S:t Larsgatan 1 0c SE-582 2 4 Link ö ping Sweden We b: www .softube.com E-mail: info@softube.com Phone: +46 1 3 21 [...]

Support On the Amp Room websi te (www .sof tube.com) you will find answers to common questions (F AQ) and ot her topics that might inter est you. Suppor t questions can be posted at http://www .tcsupport.tc, where TC's dedicated staff will help you. E-mail addresses and update d inf ormation are alwa y s av ailable on the Amp Room w ebsite. Am[...]

System Requirements Please mak e sure that y ou ha v e the latest Interlok drivers installed! The lates t version of Amp Room is alwa ys av ailable from the Amp Room websi te. Pro T ools HD|Accel V ersion (TDM) ● Pro T ools | HD Accel with Pro T ools 7 .0 or higher ● System mus t meet requirements for P ro T ools HD from Digidesign ● Mac OS X[...]

Introduction Straightforward and simple, Vintage Amp Room emulates three great guitar amps in a complete studio set-up with speak er cabinets and fully flexible microphon e positioning. It's easy to use for live per formances and recordings, as well as for re-amping and last- minute tweakin g. Amp Room has none of the added gadgets or weird-so[...]

production is about using y our ears, not your computer skills. Simulation T echnology Here follows three geeky sections, so you might want to skip directly to the next chapter on page 9. Once upon a time, when Sof tube was not yet born, three guys (the hacker , the guitar play er and the professor) were involv ed in a researc h project at Link ö [...]

the real amp, which easily can ha ve a dynamic range of 1 00 dB. F rom a technical perspective, this means that the signal path within Amp Room always has the highest dynamic range possible, and y ou won't lose any bits on the w a y . P atents This Sof tube product is prot ected by patent SE525332 and pending patents US2004- 0258250, EP1 49208[...]

User Interface Simplicity has been the goal when we developed this product ; the amps and mics should work just as they do in the real studio. Unfortunately , moving a mouse cursor on a 1 7” L CD screen isn't ex actly like grabbing the real mic stand in a cozy studio. Nev er theless, we hav e tried to imitate that feeling as far as it is pos[...]

Mic Position When the mouse is located over the mic stand, the mouse pointer changes to an “up-down”-arrow . Click -and-drag the mouse up or down to change the position of the mic stand. The microphone mov es along a predet ermined path (see Figure 3), so you only need to move the mouse up or down, just as if yo u were changing a knob. 1 0 Vint[...]

Amp Selection Y ou can change amp by clicking on the background and dragging the mouse to the left or right. The mouse pointer becomes a “left- right”-arrow when you are pointing at the bac kgro und to indicate that it is possible to change amplifier . Clicking on the backgroun d while holding the Shift-ke y toggles betw een the amplifiers wi t[...]

Controls Summary Mouse Up/Down : T o change a parameter such as a knob or the position of the mic stand (Figur e 6). Left/Righ t : T o change amplifier (Figure 7). Click : T o toggle switches or activ ate the “ About”-box. Mouse wheel: Use the mouse wheel to change knob paramet ers and mic stand position. Keyboard Commands for Mac OS X Use thes[...]

Platform Specific Issues TDM/R T AS on Pro T ools|HD There are some specific issues to consider when using an RT AS plug-in in recording mode on a Pro T ools|HD system. First of all, an audio buf fer latency is introduced in the RT AS version, but not in the TDM version. So for the best live guitar e xperience, it is preferr ed to use the TDM v ers[...]

White Amp White is based on an all-round great amp, a classic that set the industr y standard for classic, distorted rock'n'roll sounds. The genius is its simplicity . It's stripped down to the bare essentials – all tubes, only one channel, and no rev erb or any oth er built-in effects. Sound-wise, it goes from mad screaming preamp[...]

Knobs The functionality of the knobs on the front panel of the plug-in correspond exactly to the front panel of the real amplifier . Presence : The presence is used to control the feedback loop and thus the amount of treble in the po wer amp. T urn it up to get a high frequency boost. Bass, Middle, and T reble : These knobs are the tone control of [...]

Brown Amp Amp Room Brown is based on one of the most versatile classic amplifiers in music history . It's been used in all kinds of genres, and with all kind of instruments, thanks to a sound that is clean, crisp and clear , but also warm, thick and punchy . Brown can produce anything from the clearest country-style sound for steel-guitars to [...]

Knobs The functionality of the knobs on the front panel of the plug-in corresponds to the front panel of the real amplifier , e xcept the spring rev erb, which hasn't been included in this plug-in. W e hav e also added a “Vibrato” switch, which on the real amplifier is a foot switch. There is also a difference when all the tone controls ar[...]

Green Amp Green is packed with character and produces a pleasant guitar sound with warm y et intense poweramp distortion. Its edginess makes it shine through in mix es, without drowning out other instruments. Green is based on a famous brit-pop amplifier from the middle of the 60's. It has three dif ferent channels (“Vib- T rem”, “Normal[...]

Knobs The functionality of the knobs on the front panel of the plug-in corresponds exactly to the front panel of the real amplifier , ex cept that we have added the foot switch as a “Vib- T rem Off-On” switch. Vib- T rem Off-On : T urn on the vibrato or trem olo effect by moving this switc h clock-wise. Vib- T rem Speed : Thr ee wa y switch tha[...]

Pitfalls and Commo n Mistak es (I nput Impedance is Important!) It is very impor tant to have a line box or a preamp with an input that is designed for guit ar (or bass) before the signal from your guitar enters your computer . More technically speaking: the signal from your guitar must go directly into a high impedance input (1 megohm). Line input[...]

although this will most probably rule out most input stages and A/D co nverters. Input Levels Mak e the Difference! If you experience the amplifier distor ting too much or too little, you should experiment by attenuating or boosting the guitar signal before the plug-in, for e xample by using the “V olume” plug-in that usually come with most plu[...]

Buying Recommendations If you like the sound from Amp Room and would like to get that sound using the real deal (let's face it, a real vintage amp is alwa ys sexier than a plug-in), here are some buying recommendations. White If you like the sound of the White amp, we recommend you to buy a Marshall JCM800 2203 with a 1 960A 4x1 2” cabinet. [...]

Vintage Amp Room was mad e by Oscar Ö berg - concept, preamp mod eling, sound- and DSP -programming. Niklas Odelholm - cabinet and microphone modeling and sound design. Arvid Ros é n - power amp mo deling and sound pro gramming. T orsten Gatu - inter face and DSP pro gramming. Per Connman - amp selection and mod eling. Ö rjan – amp selection. [...]