Softube Bass Amp Room Manual
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1. PHASE AMPLIFIER CABINET INVERT BYPASS AMP BYPASS CAB MAIN INPUT MAIN OUTPUT DI LIMITER D I AMP BALANCE OUTPUT SOLO BUTTONS VOLUME DI TONE CTRL LIMITER LOW CUT HIGH CUT TONE Buying Recommendations If you like the sound from Bass Amp Room and would like to get that sound using the real deal let s face it a real amp is always sexier than a plug in here are some buying recommendations Amplifier If you like this characteristic fat distortion and scooped out tone stack I would suggest that you get a two channel Hiwatt DR103 from the late 70s early 80s Cabinets and Mic Ihe leftmost cabinet was modeled after the in dustry standard of bass cabinets the Ampeg 8x10 SVT810 If you like the 4x12 sound I d suggest that you try out a couple of different 4x12s because we have absolutely no clue what kind of 4x12 we meas ured It sounded excellent had no labels on and wasn t for sale The small cabinet was a half open 1x12 cabinet with a Celestion 20W 15ohm driver But you will also need a good sounding mic to get a good bass sound and in our opinion nothing beats the Sennheiser MD421 D I and Mix Panel The tone controls of the D I and limiter was made by us and have no hardware counterpart Room If you like the sound of the room make sure to schedule a session at Care Of Sound in Norrk ping BRAND NAMES ARE TRADEMARKS OR REGIS TERED TRADEMARKS OF THEIR R2. distortion High Low Use this switch to select either the attenuated channel Low or the regular channel HIGH Normal Volume This knob controls the amount of preamp distortion and is usually called Gain on more modern amps Use it to dial in Middle Treble Master Volume MIDDLE THEBLE MASTER VOLUME the amount of distortion you want Bass Middle Treble These knobs are the tone con trols of the amplifier A com mon setting is Bass on full Middle on min and Treble somewhere in between Master Volume Adjusts the amount of power amp distortion With a mas sive amount of Master and Normal Volume the amp will start sound like it s about to break Unless you really want that kind of distortion you ll find that a Master Volume at 12 oclock will suit most of your needs Master Volume won t distort much unless you increase the Normal Volume Just like the real amp 10 BASS AMP ROOM The Cabinets Positioning the Mic Click and drag left right on the background to By changing the mic position you can get lots of change cabinets different sounds from a single cabinet How the sound changes depends on the cabinet and the MIDDLE TREBLE MASTER room but there are some common features for all BIG ER the cabs in Bass Amp Room CLOSE OFF AXIS Ihe position with most bass and the least amount of highs CLOSE ON AXIS Moving the mic towards the on axis position will gradually give you more highs and a
3. more pronounced mid Usually the most focused sound FAR FIELD Moving away from the cabinet will give you more room ambiance and often but not always a thinner sound 8x10 Ihe industry standard 8x10 doesn t need much presentation With a fat sound and lots of low end this is the goto cabinet for many bass players 4x12 Ihe regular 4x12 cabinet is preferred by many bass players over the industry standard 8x10 It has a more focused sound than the 8x10 and although its a bit thinner than the 8x10 it is often easier to work with in a mix 1x12 This is the odd bird among the cabinets While trying out cabinets for Bass Amp Room we felt that we needed to listen to something completely different just to clear our minds We found this old openback 1x12 plugged it in and immediately fell in love with the sound Some sort of 60s sound with lots of room And you can dial in more low end if you need it just by moving the mic more to the off axis position If you find that the selection of cabinets isn t enough for you you can always bypass the cabinet in Bass Amp Room and use the cabinets from one of our other Amp Room plugins with the amp modeling bypassed Low Cut Tone High Cut Limiter DI Amp Balance Qutput Volume DIRECT INJECT D I AMP BALANCE rs TONE HIGH CUT LIMITER area CR N Ble SOLO See 32 32 OFF OFE NV DE OUTPUT FLAT 2k sa DIRECT INJECT AMPLIFIE
4. ESPECTIVE OWNERS Credits Niklas Odelholm modeling and sound design Oscar Oberg compressor modeling framework programming Torsten Gatu interface program ming Arvid Rosen framework programming Ulf Ekelof 3D rendering Softube
5. R Solo Amp Solo DI Phase Invert Amp The Mix Panel lose the low end stop and go back a couple of millimeters SO WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED EXCEPT a good yes we are metric sounding amp Since a lot of engineers and produc ers prefer to work with both the raw D I signal and High Cut Same as the Low Cut but for the mic ed signal using the amp signal for charac high frequencies ter and the D I signal for focus or low end we de cided to incorporate that work flow into Bass Amp Room But instead of having two tracks one with Tone When this knob is set at the microphone signal and one with the direct bass 12 oclock FLAT it doesn t line you can easily blend the two signals directly in change the sound at all Turn Bass Amp Room And to make life easier we added ing it clockwise will give you a a couple of very powerful tone controls and a state fatter and more scooped sound oftheart singleknob compressor in the D I section much like the tone stack in the That way you will be able to get a really good bass amplifier Turning it counter sound just by using the D I clockwise will give you a sound with lots of mid Direct Inject D I Knobs Changing the Low Cut and High Cut will drasti cally change the characteristics of the Tone knob lan AA ad acana lo an len Technically speaking the center frequencies ofthe Tone knob filters will change when you change the bandwidth the settings of Low and High Cut combined Th
6. d while holding the Shift key toggles through the cabs without any sliding animations Mix Panel Bottom Area In the mix panel you can change the balance be tween the amplifier signal and the D I signal The tonality of the D I signal can be changed with the three EQ knobs and the compressor limiter You can also change the phase of the amplifier signal and adjust the output volume D NORMAL VOLUME BASS MIDDLE TREBLE MASTER VOLUME DI and Mix Panel DA AMP BALANCE DU RA 18 IRECT INJECT INE HIGH CUT re i IFF LIMITE REENGR dv DIPEC NJECT AN 3 n y High Low Normal Volume Bass NORMAL VOLUME The Amplifier Ihe amplifier that we chose to model is actually a guitar amplifier but because of its very characteristic non fizzy distortion and specialsounding tone stack it s been very popular among bass players dur ing the last decades When the High Low switch is set to HIGH the amplifier will work and act just like the real thing The Low mode is the same ampli fier with a slightly different input stage one which lowers the input gain a little bit while adding some warmth to the signal The Low mode gives you a fat bass sound without too much distortion Use the two volume controls as a means of dialing in the right amount of distortion not to change the actual volume More Normal Volume gives you greater preamp distortion and more Master Volume gives you greater power amp
7. is control is intended for filtering out unwanted fre quencies but can of course be used more creatively Keep increasing the knob until you cannot hear any difference in the sound When you start to Limiter Use the limiter to increase the amount of compression This function can for instance be used to limit the peaks of the D I signal and would then be set somewhere around 12 oclock depending on the level of the input signal With a higher setting you will get a longer sustain on each note Limiter LED The LED on the top right of the Limiter knob indicates when the limiter is working like a gain reduction meter D I Amp Balance This fader sets the balance between the D I signal and the amp signal Use the Solo knobs to audition each chan nel post fader Solo Click the Solo texts to solo either the Direct Inject chan nel or the Amplifier and cabinet channel You can only solo one channel at a time so by soloing one channel you au tomatically un solo the other channel Phase Invert Amp Inverts the phase of the amp signal Changing the relative phase between the D I signal and amp signal will often completely change the sound If you have a hard time trying to find a good blend between the two signals try flipping the Phase Invert It usually makes a big difference to the sound Phase invert If you have the balance fader somewhere in the middle you should make it a habit to t
8. low is a crucial element of our design the amps and mics should work just as they do in a real studio We have tried to imi tate this as much as it is possible in a compu ter environment and if you have experience working in real studios you will notice that Bass Amp Room handles and sounds just the way you expect it to Amp Panel Top Area In the Amp Panel you can alter the settings of the amp by clicking the knob and dragging the mouse up and down or left to right Switches can be switched either by clicking on them or by clickand dragging the mouse In some hosts you can change the behavior of the mouse but the default behavior of Bass Amp Room is the one described above Room View Middle Area In the Room View you can do two things select the other cabinet or change the mic s position Mic Position When the mouse is located over a mic stand the mouse pointer changes to an updown arrow and the mic gets a copper goldish glow Click and drag the mouse up or down to change the position of the mic stand The microphone moves along a predeter mined path so you only need to move the mouse up or down not to the left or right Cabinet Selection You can change the cabinet by clicking on the background and dragging the mouse to the left or right The mouse pointer becomes a left right arrow when you are pointing at the background to indicate that it is possible to change cabinet Clicking on the backgroun
9. mouse wheel is turned up or down Mac OS Only You need to restart your host software DAW before the changes to fully take effect If you messed something up and manually need to set these options you ll find them in text format in the following locations MAC OS Library Application Support Sof tube WINDOWS username Application Data Key Commands All numbers and labels in the plug in are clickable This allows you to easy select a setting by clicking on the wanted value Hovering above a label will turn the mouse pointer into a pointing hand Mouse Up Down or Mouse Wheel Change a parameter such as a knob or a switch Keyboard Fine Adjust 3 Mac or cTRL Win while changing the parameter value Reset to Default art while clicking on the knob or fader Plug In Specific Key Commands In many plug ins you can SHIFT click on a knob or a switch to get some extra functionality Metal Amp Room SHIFT click and drag a mic will move both mics simultaneously All Amp Rooms SHIFT click in the cabinet background will change cabinet or amp without any animations Bass Amp Room Introduction WHEN WE DESIGNED BASS AMP ROOM we had two goals in mind Ihe first goal was to give the user the best possible sound quality and state of the art physical modeling Ihe other equally important goal was to give the user a plugin that was intuitive and allowed for a really fast work flow Time is money but cu
10. nges global options for all instances of that plug in v r 5 oftube Mode Active A Menu Row E L 5 oftube Mode Bypa m S SETUF Si In the bottom of the plug in interface you will see a thin black row with some buttons We ll use the Dyna mite plug in as example but the same goes TR for all plug ins Enable About Box Opens the About Box with When the Enable switch is set to on I the plug version info in is active and will process audio When set to OFF 0 it will be bypassed and not process any audio It Value Display Displays the knob value when will take considerably less CPU when it is bypassed the mouse is hovering over a control About Box Value Display Enable Setup L 4 we Softube Hormal Volume 4 5 epn ID UIV OUP VDE b L R ma z K w EE m E un z Setup In the Setup window you can change settings that will affect all instances of that particular plug in If you for example de select the Show Value Display option in the Bass Amp Room plug in the value display will be off for all Bass Amp Rooms on your system until you select that option again Ihe different options vary between Windows and Mac and also different formats and plug ins Ihe most common options are SHOW VALUE DISPLAY Enables the parameter and value display in the bottom row of the plug in REVERSE MOUSE WHEEL DIRECTION Mac OS Only Changes if the a knob is turned up or down when the
11. oggle the Phase Invert switch It can make a huge difference to the sound Output Sets the output volume It goes from 32 dB to 32 dB except at the minimum position where it turns off the output signal completely Output Peak LED The Output Peak LED indi cates when the output signal peaks at O dBFS Bass Amp Room will not clip the peaks it is only an indication Bypassing Amps or Cabs You can choose to bypass the amp or the cabinet by selecting AMP BYPASS or CAB BYPASS from the small box in the lower right corner This is very useful if you want to use Bass Amp Room with an external speaker or speaker plugin or if you just want to add a cabinet simulation to a track such as a recorded line out from your ampli fler This will not bypass the D I section since that can be easily done by setting the D I Amplifier Fader all the way to the right on AMPLIFIER By bypassing the cabinets in Bass Amp Room you can use the cabinets from the other Amp Room plugins Just insert for example Metal Amp Room with bypassed amplifier on the track after Bass Amp Room with a bypassed cabinet Block Diagram The bass signal Main Input is split up into two identical signals one that goes to the amp top sec tion and one to the D I bottom section Ihe two signals are mixed with the D I Amp Balance fader HIGH LOW NORMAL VOLUME BASS MIDDLE TREBLE CAB SWITCH MASTER VOLUME MIC POSITION PHASE INVERT
12. r there are a chance that we have made mistakes and we hope that you understand that we are only humans Please let us know about the mistake and we ll fix it in the mix or in the next version of this manual Support On the Softube website www sof tube com you will find answers to common questions FAQ and other topics that might interest you Support questions can be posted at http www sof tube com where we will help you as fast as we can Web www sof tube com E mail info softube com Phone 46 13 21 1623 9 am 5 pm CET Contents User Interface 5 Menu ROW co poroso ee ee 5 Key Command 6 Bass Amp Room 7 Introduction 7 Userlnterface 8 The Amplifier 9 The Cabinets AG oe ee 2 2 0 00 u KA 10 The MixPanel 11 Bypassing AmpsorCabs 12 Block Diagram 13 Buying Recommendations 14 Credits ee ae 14 User Interface SOFTUBE PLUG INS ARE what you see is what you get products You should be able to intuitively learn Enable Enable Activate the plug in the products within minutes so that you can work Set to OFF for bypass fast and efficient with them There are a couple of things that remain the same for all of our plug ins such as the menu row Ihese will be explained in this chapter For detailed information of a particular plug in please see its chapter Setup Cha
13. tting down on time shouldn t have to mean that you need to accept poor results At least not with Bass Amp Room And having an amp model that behaves just like the real thing will definitely speed up the work process since you probably already know how to use it In short you need the same skills to master this software as you need when dealing with the real studio setup You can get back to doing what you do best because music production should be about using your ears not your computer skills WE HAVE IMAGINED TWO TYPES OF USERS Ihe first wants the best possible amp modeling and is willing to spend time tweaking the sound of each bass track By working the mics amp and D I tone controls and perhaps most importantly the blend between the D I and amp this user gets full control over the sound without ever losing it s authenticity The second user is one who just like the previous user wants the best possible amp modeling but rec ognizes the fact that he she cannot spend too much time tweaking it That is why we have for example only a single tone control knob on the D I and a one knob limiter Don t be fooled by the simplicity however you still have the ability to create a unique signature sound The strength lies in the very easy individual blocks the amp the D I the cabs and mics and the ability to mix and match between them 8 BASS AMP ROOM User Interface Apart from a good sound work f
14. vw Softube User Manual Bass Amp Room User Manual for Version 1 3 15 Rev Jan 10 2013 Softube User Manual 2007 2013 Amp Room is a registered trademark of Softube AB Sweden Softube is a registered trademark of Softube AB Sweden All visual and aural references to the Valley People Dyna mite Trident A Range Tonelux and Tilt are trademarks being made with written permission from PMI Audio Ihe Tonelux and Tilt logo the Valley People Dyna mite and associated logos and the Trident A Range and Triangle logo are trademarks of PMI Audio Group used under license Tube Tech is a registered trademark of Lydkraft ApS Denmark All specifications subject to change without notice All Rights Reserved Other company and product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies Men tion of third party products is for informational purposes only and constitutes neither an endorsement nor a recommendation Softube assumes no responsibility with regard to the performance or use of these products Softube products are protected by patents SE526523 and SE525332 and related patents patent ap plications including WO06054943 US11 667360 US20040258250 EP1492081 EP1815459 and JP2004183976 Your rights to the software are governed by the accompanying software license agreement End User Li cense Agreement Disclaimer Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate Howeve
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