{"id":1746,"date":"2008-02-09T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T19:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2008-12-14T15:55:11","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T19:55:11","slug":"virtuamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"VirtuAmp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span> couple<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1745' rel='attachment wp-att-1745' title='VirtuAmp'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/virtu_amp_every_thing.thumbnail.jpg' alt='VirtuAmp' \/><\/a> of months ago, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/nemesis.thewavelength.net\/index.php?p=51\">VirtuAmp<\/a>, a (real-time) virtual guitar amplifier that comes with a range of virtual pedals, including a tremolo, flanger and compressor. It works actually pretty good too and it&#8217;s easy to setup: your (desktop) microphone can work as an input, but preferably you should use your (semi\/electric) guitar cable and plug it right into the line-in\/mic of your computer (for this you may need an adapter of course).\n<\/p>\n<p>So, if you want to be a rockstar, you can even use your acoustic guitar (or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1490\">semi-acoustic<\/a> in my case) and crank up the flanger. You go, Jimmy Hendrix! (<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1747' rel='attachment wp-att-1747' title='A sample VirtuAmp sample'>Sample sound of me playing, 30+ second, mp3<\/a><sup>1<\/sup>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Since VirtuAmp processes everything in real-time, you may need a fast processor. You definitely need a good soundcard (my onboard cheapy ass freaking soundcard makes a mess out of it). Additionally, if you feel so obliged, virtuAmp comes with complete sources.\n<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;m also not sure how this compares to the real stuff, but hey, it&#8217;s fun anyways).\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"reference\">\n<p>\n<sup>1<\/sup> I did this in one take using <a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">Audacity<\/a> and my USB <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundblaster.com\/products\/product.asp?category=1&#038;subcategory=206&#038;product=10702\">Creative SoundBlaster Live!<\/a> soundcard. Background noise and static was filtered out, and the overall sound was amplified with a (min.) preset level of (at least) 0.8 dB. Hence why it may sound a bit &#8216;tin-canned&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of months ago, I found VirtuAmp, a (real-time) virtual guitar amplifier that comes with a range of virtual pedals, including a tremolo, flanger and compressor. It works actually pretty good too and it&#8217;s easy to setup: your (desktop) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[353,218,219],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}