Where/when did "modern" guitar tone begin?

[Chistopher]

How would this make any sense at all? All you can do with FPGAs is look up Boolean logic tables; guitar signals aren't discretes, they're not gates and muxes, so this doesn't even begin to work unless you think you have an FPGA with a LUT large enough to do an entire analog-to-digital conversion, an entire ampsim's worth of programming logic, and a digital-to-analog conversion.

Does VHDL's real type even have enough bits to be useful for studio audio?

I'll take a look for my paper. It's kinda hard to explain on here

 

[Solarflares]

How would this make any sense at all? All you can do with FPGAs is look up Boolean logic tables; guitar signals aren't discretes, they're not gates and muxes, so this doesn't even begin to work unless you think you have an FPGA with a LUT large enough to do an entire analog-to-digital conversion, an entire ampsim's worth of programming logic, and a digital-to-analog conversion.

Does VHDL's real type even have enough bits to be useful for studio audio?

Be fair. It was only for a Masters thesis. At that level of education, he could have written about making it with newt’s spawn, poison Ivy, and used baked bean tins - and got a pass these days.
Since he ignored my wraparound suggestion, which covers your idea fully - I think you’re on a shot to nothing if you want any sense.
I say that in all warm sincerity. We all have off days!

 

[Securb]

This thread got weird then it got weird

 

[Solarflares]

This thread got weird then it got weird

Advanced Acronym angst!

 

[Chistopher]

Be fair. It was only for a Masters thesis. At that level of education, he could have written about making it with newt’s spawn, poison Ivy, and used baked bean tins - and got a pass these days.
Since he ignored my wraparound suggestion, which covers your idea fully - I think you’re on a shot to nothing if you want any sense.
I say that in all warm sincerity. We all have off days!

What a strange thing to say

 

[jeremy]

This thread got weird then it got weird

indeed

 

[playas]

When vintage guitar tone ended.

 

[MikeS]

I think the main entries at the start are the SLO100, the 5150, and the Dual Rectifier. I think Soldano was the first to the party, but I don't think of those amps as coming onto the scene with what I'd describe as modern tones. They certainly weren't vintage in sound, but I also don't think the hair metal tones they were initially known for really count.

The SLO100's preamp circuit is pretty much the ancestor of all modern high gain tube amps. The 5150 was based on the SLO100, was more affordable, and mass-produced. The 5150 and 6505 remain ubiquitous metal amps to this day. It seems to my ears that many metal bands today are either playing these amps or using a QC or Kemper profile based on these amps.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Holy crap, a post I can understand. SLO, IIc+, that's where my thinking is on the topic. To my ears Ride the Lightning is when metal tone changed.

Of course, there's the other bear in the room, about when fusion tone changed from MacLaughlin's fire to the insipid 90s Wave sounds. That's a modern guitar tone, too.

 

[Cynical]

The SLO100's preamp circuit is pretty much the ancestor of all modern high gain tube amps. The 5150 was based on the SLO100, was more affordable, and mass-produced. The 5150 and 6505 remain ubiquitous metal amps to this day. It seems to my ears that many metal bands today are either playing these amps or using a QC or Kemper profile based on these amps.

A lot of modern high-gain amps are more Mark II in the preamp than SLO.