When playing the amp loud and distorted, does it clean up just using the guitar’s volume control?
Yes. The distortion is not “modeled.” It is totally about progressive non-linearity from the drive level. Thus backing off the guitar’s volume will reduce the amount of distortion, unless you are way, way into overdrive territory. I saw this in the explanatory text about the amp: “very low latency circuit for player responsiveness.” What does it mean? All amps that use digital processing have a short delay between when the guitar signal is applied, and when the sound comes out of the speaker. This is due to the analog-to-digital-to-analog conversion, and due to the processing going on. This delay is called “latency” and is in the range of milliseconds. It is our belief that even fairly small delays that are not heard directly by the brain still serve to subtly disconnect the player’s fingers from the sound. Maybe this is one reason why digital modeling amps sometimes just don’t feel right, even if they nail the “tone” of the classics. So we worked to make the processing delay as short
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