AbsolutelyWas that when Luke was sportin' the Richard Simmons Perm?
Pre Samick....it's a Custom with the graphicsAbsolutely
If it's one of the real old-school Valley Art Lukes (from before the Samick and later Gibson takeover), I congratulate on an amazing find and an amazing guitar! Older guitars sometimes need a bit of TLC to perform, but with a real Valley Arts, you know it'll be worth it.
Cheers
Eske
That's good stuff - congrats!
... and, of course, Dudley Gimpel who designs the MM instruments (aka "The Master") worked at Valley Arts before Sterling tapped him to work at MM.
I'm glad you giggled. While you may be correct about how most didgi processors use info, you are way off about how did modeling uses it...but I'm guess thats why I worked for a company that was the forefathers of digi modeling..because I make people giggle. Now that you've had a chuckle, if I may have my say...I have to admit I giggled when I read that.
You may like the older Pod better and that's totally valid, but it has nothing to do with the number of simultaneous effects it can run, nor does it have to do with the bit depth. With all due respect, your idea of how a Pod works is anything but "techie". Don't get me wrong, the great thing about modern computing is that you don't have to have any idea how it works in order to use it. That's why computers are so powerful. Hell, most computer programmers actually have little to no idea how a processor does what it does, because they code in an HLL like C++. It's like magic, and it's great, but it does lead to some huge misconceptions about how the whole thing works.
Okay, from the top, a processor doesn't assign a certain number of bits to one process, a certain number to another, it just doesn't work like that. "bit" actually means very little - the number of "bits" something has can mean a lot of different things. In this case, the 24 bit processing in a Pod actually refers to the bit depth of the audio stream. It defines the dynamic range (i.e. how much headroom is available). Internally, a Pod XT has an 80-bit fixed-point accumulator, and can handle 32/40 bit floating point math. The earlier Pods probably have similar specs as it regards "bits", because most embedded systems are designed around similar families of DSPs, and most DSPs work relatively similarly anyway. Basically, the number of bits defines how many numbers are contained in a single instruction or datum.
But none of that really matters, because it all has to do with the precision in a single instruction. Believe it or not, a Pod actually can't do 7 things at once. It can do exactly one thing at a time, and that's usually performing some math operation or moving a number from one place to another. It just does these things so quickly that it seems like it's all happening at once, because the audio stream only needs to be updated like 48,000 times per second, and the Pod can do, let's say 400 million things per second. And many of those things it does in 1/400,000,000 of a second are mathematically the equivalent of more than one thing per second done by a general-purpose CPU, because DSPs are designed to be very, very efficient at exactly the kinds of things the Pod does to a guitar's signal.
What's handy about the Pod is that it's very optimized, so they know exactly how many cycles any given operation will take. Based on that, they can figure out how many algorithms you can run at once (each processing block can be considered an "algorithm"). For example, the EQ is probably a biquad filter, the cab simulation is a convolution engine, etc. To reiterate, from the processor's standpoint, it's not all happening at once. Everything happens one tiny step at a time. It just looks like it's all happening at once to you. What that means is that if you only run one thing at once, it's not devoting all of it's power to that one thing, it just means that you're actually only using a fraction of it's power and most of the time, that DSP is doing nothing.
The moral of the story? Trust your ears. You really don't understand anything about how that little red reniform box does what it does, and you don't need to. But please don't just guess. It makes engineers giggle, and we sound horrendous when we do that, and we tend to snort.
