Dynatube

[Ricardo]

Have tried the Adern Mojo and Scuffham amp.
The Adern sounds more realistic to me, as if I was playing through a real amp in my studio. The Scuffham doesn't quite have the warmth I'm looking for. Early days though, only given each about 45 mins to play around. Hopefully I'llget the trial keys for the Dynatube soon.I'll let you know my final thoughts when I've had more time.
Cheers all.

[grappa]

Yeah - sadly I only video'd me playing the rhythm part..the lead is played through Dynatube and I think it sounds pretty sweet..

Scope + Dynatube - for when the Dumble just wont cut it!!

Si

[astroman]

...The Adern sounds more realistic to me, as if I was playing through a real amp in my studio. The Scuffham doesn't quite have the warmth I'm looking for. ...

yeah, VST naturally tends a bit into the brittle direction
when I compared them I switched off all FX and cabinet emulation in Scuffham
(9 out of 10 cabinets will spoil the party, but 1 good may be among the pack)

I then set an arbitrary sound in Mojo, and tried to tweak Scuffham to a similiar result.
It performed pretty amazingly... and David Scuffham is someone to rely on (check his bio)
for me it's clearly the best (most expressiv, most dynamic) native solution.

With a Scope card available it doesn't matter much, but if none available S-Gear may save the day

cheers, Tom

[Ricardo]

Keys arrived. Wrote back to alex to thank him and got another response in 19 minutes!!!! The quickest response ever. Anyway, off to try out this Dynatube stuff.
Might try your test this week Tom. Seems like a challenge.

[Ricardo]

Is this Dynatube amp supposed to be this noisy? As part of the realism? The Fender emu is all I can trial, and it sounds great, but that noise makes me wonder. Could someone please confirm that it's not just my set up doing this. I'm going through an active DI which is quiet as a mouse.

[astroman]

yes, I guess it's the normal noise of an input stage (modelled) which has a lot of gain by nature
on a real amp you don't hear as much of it due to the limited frequency response of the driver
(noise suppressors are the remedy in real world...)

cheers, Tom

[garyb]

guitar amps are noisy. gain raises noise levels too. a guitar is like an antenna for noise.

[Ricardo]

Thanx, I just wanted to be sure. I suspected it was part of the emu. Adds to the realism.

[Ricardo]

And the winner is.....................
Well, to be honest there is no winner or loser. All three have their worth.
Dynatube - I only got to test the Fender Twin. A great amp emu, sound is great except for some reason the distortion seemed a bit edgy, not to my taste. Also a little limited to the 4 amp types. Some will love this, the fender sounds just like that, so if you're after a classic sound it's excellent. I'm assuming the other emus are just as good. Si confirms the Vox.
Adern Mojo - Indeed nice warm distortion, also sounds like an 'in the room' amp. If you add this as a fifth amp to the Dynatube collection you'll have a lot of versatility. Very tweakable as well.
Swaffham S Gear - This is very versatile and comes with 3 different amp heads, lots of effects and swapable cab mics plus more. No vibrato however. I compared the Fender preset with the Dynatube. It was reasonably close, but one thing I noticed was the lack of 'in the room' feel, may be the tube emulation was why, not sure. It doesn't eat up your DSP however as it's native.
I didn't try these with effects pedals pre scope. I recorded clean guitar to my DAW then ran the recorded track through the plugin. I might just try distortion pre scope than see how it sounds through the S Gear.
Lastly, the Swaffham and Adern are very nicely priced. The Dynatube a little more, although it won't break the bank either and of course nothing like as much as buying the actual amps!!
I'll probably get the Adern. If I need more versatility I'll get the Swaffham as well for an extra AU$70
Thanks to all for helping.

[astroman]

agreed, all those models are quite affordable.
Mojo's kind of room sound is controlled by the 'ambience dial', as one would expect.
A nice feature that saves an extra reverb if you don't want it dry as the desert

btw I re-vitalized my SPX-90 by adding an additional hardware path to the rig.
the 31.25 khz sampling frequency adds some grit with a color hard to achieve elseway (imho)

cheers, Tom

[dante]

Is this Dynatube amp supposed to be this noisy? As part of the realism? The Fender emu is all I can trial, and it sounds great, but that noise makes me wonder. Could someone please confirm that it's not just my set up doing this. I'm going through an active DI which is quiet as a mouse.

On the J Marshall model, turn the pre-amp down to about 1/4 works for me. You can make up the gain with the master knob just next door