Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

msplines

msplines

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I often hear guys with relatively high end gear get a kind of "bloom" at the beginning of some notes when soloing. Is this the famous "sag" that you get from valve rectifiers etc or is it something else that us mere mortals can't do without three trillion dollars worth of gear??
ta lots.
 
Re: Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

Could we get an example of this "bloom?" It could just be a rake.
 
Re: Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

It is very difficult to describe. It's as if there is a micro delay associated with the pick scrape and it gives a sort of "gblitz" noise just before the note comes on song and the note really sings just after it, almost as if there is a rebound effect with a punch into something soft, pillow like, but gritty at the same time.
I'll have a poke around to see if I can get a short clipette with the sound I mean - Tim Pierce comes to mind, amongst others;
 
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Re: Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

here's a clipette (v short), it was zip encoded with stuffit, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem(!)
 
Re: Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

hmm, that sucks. So there's no way to get squidge clean? Too bad! Could a compressor cop this sound by dulling the attack but increasing release.
 
Re: Squidge with pick attack - is this "sag"

Yes and no... the "bloom" can be emulated by a compressor, but the "microdelay" would require at the least a very tweakable delay pedal........ But what you´re describing in post 4 is definitely the "sag" of a tube amp ;)

but the "gblitz" you´re describing reminds me more of pick noise somehow....
 
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