Marc Thow SAE Institute Major Project

Exit Survey

Do you play guitar?

Yes

No

Do you have experience working with electric guitar amplifiers? (Solid state and Valve)

Yes

No

Do you have any experience with Simulated guitar amplifiers? (plugins, software amplifiers)

Yes

No

Have you ever recorded or mixed guitar amplifiers before?

Yes

No

Next is the listening test section, please be sure to listen through good monitors or headphones so you are able to make your choices to the best of your abilities

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There will be two clips for each question, one is a real Orange Rockerverb MKII guitar amplifier recorded with a Sennhieser MD421 and an AKG C414, with the 414 being the more prominent microphone, the other clip will be a D.I. signal going straight into Amplitube where there is a Software copy of the Orange amp, the speaker cab and the microphones, all amplifier settings are matched and the only thing that differs from the two is the volume and gain amount to make sure they match.

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Here is the clean tone. Listen to clips 1A and 1B and please choose which one you think is the REAL amplifier.

Clip 1A

Clip 1B

Here is the Distorted tone. Again please choose which one you believe is the REAL amplifier.

Clip 2A

Clip 2B

Here are clips of the amplifier types in the context of a mix, please choose which one is the REAL amplifier

Clip 3A

Clip 3B

After listening to these clips, do you feel the real amplifier was easy to pick out? If yes then why?