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Rocktron - Taboo


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Different from the early 90s typical multifx units. Strives for controlling or accounting for various specific parameters of amp emulation (power tube, output transformer, guitar speaker, cabinet, and mic), not just speaker simulation. Doesn't go into the level of amp-emulation detail of the ADA Ampulator, but is miles ahead of more typical preamp/multifx processors such as the DigiTech 2120 with "programmable speaker simulator" which has little more than two settings: on or off.

Strives for total tube-amp emulation, not just "speaker simulation", breaks out of the mere, so-called "preamp" league -- which says "pre" "amp", which means *not* amp-like.

Might have a badly needed feature, pre-distortion eq.

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Rocktron Product Manuals - Chameleon, VooDu Valve, and Piranha are available in HTML.

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>The Tom Scholtz Rockman also does a lot of eq tricks.

What sort? This intelligent design seems to have been carried over into all of the Rocktron products.

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User comments about Rocktron products - including Chameleon, Gainiac, Multivalve, Piranha, VooDu Valve. No Prophecy reviews yet, as of 11/98.

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Taboo

The Taboo Amp has a speaker simulator output.

Rocktron Taboo DSP guitar amps -- "TABOO amps employ Rocktron's latest in digital and tube technology. We have combined the power of the most advanced DSP engine by Motorola�, and the warmth found only in the popular 12AX7 [preamp-, not power-] tube to produce amp tones. TABOO brings decades of experience with professional preamps, effects systems and power amplification into a single package. The TABOO contains the most advanced EQ available on a guitar amp today, including Pre and Post distortion EQ and an awesome analog Global EQ circuit for achieving a bigger-than-life tone even at low volumes. With Rocktron's famous cabinet simulator circuitry on both the TABOO TWIN and TABOO 100, direct recording is possible."

Taboo Artist - DSP floor preamp/multifx. 24-bit. With speaker cabinet simulation. $999. briang at eaglequest.com

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