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Flextone Manual Rev E; bookfile Page 10 Tuesday, September 8, 1998 10:31 AM
INTRODUCTION: FLEXTONE! MEET THE FLEXTONE....
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| The TubeTone process allowed Line 6 to create software Amp Models modeled |
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| after a collection of amplifiers recognized by guitarists the world over as true “tone |
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| classics.” We got these amps together, cranked ’em up, and had a look at the |
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| electronic data generated by the tubes, transformers, capacitors, plate and grid |
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| voltages, tone control curves – and the whole mess of components and elements |
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| unique to each amplifier design. This research led to the creation of TubeTone |
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| software Amp Models. These Amp Models were tweaked up through careful A/B |
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| listening comparisons to the amps that inspired them, with an ear open for the |
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| effects of different volume levels and settings of the originals’ tone and gain |
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| controls. The gain and equalization characteristics of the modeled amps were |
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| carefully measured so that changes to amp knobs on the models would mirror the |
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| effects of these changes on the originals as closely as possible. We’re talkin’ major |
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| attention to detail here. Tone control center frequencies, slopes, and cut/boost |
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| range were painstakingly analyzed, and we also carefully attended to the effect of |
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| presence switches, “bright” channels, and other |
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| that, but since these old amps had highly interactive circuits, we paid careful |
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| attention to the way that the setting of one knob will change the way that another |
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| knob on the amp will behave. All in an effort to make our Amp Models as much |
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| like the amps we modeled as possible. |
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| The resulting TubeTone Amp Models are the foundation of the Flextone guitar |
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| amp. Now, then. Here are a couple of things we want to be crystal clear on: |
1.TheTubeTone modeling process is a 100% digital
2.TubeTone is not sampling, nor is it solid state; no special guitar, pickup, or cabling is needed.
So, now that you know what’s in store, it’s time to experience the TubeTone Amp Models for yourself. Grab your favorite axe, plug in to the Flextone, and flip back to the handy Quick Start Guide on Page 1•1 if you haven’t already been through that. Then, press ahead with us to the Flextone Grand Tour....