DeVai Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 I have been hearing that term being used a lot lately. Can you guys please explain what it is ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobB Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 It’s a term tossed around by tossers who can’t play, but can afford anything they desire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cynic Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 All amps are 3D. All amp tone is produced by amps. All amp tone is 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathman Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 Since I am the mathman... a flat piece of paper is 2D. Length and width or base and height.. 3D adds the third dimension to the two options. so a flat piece of paper can lay flat on a table. L and W. It could be stood on it’s side, base and height. 3D is length , width, and height. so, the sound of an amp doesn’t just go along the floor,2D . It also doesn’t jus go straight up. Again 2D. It goes up, down and all around. 3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted April 7, 2019 Share Posted April 7, 2019 The Super Champ X2 is 4D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
django49 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 The original, IF you can find one....... https://reverb.com/item/392762-forte-3d-guitar-speaker-cabinet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchee Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 6 hours ago, DeVai said: I have been hearing that term being used a lot lately. Can you guys please explain what it is ? Going by what mathman says (kinda), here ya go: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shark Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Another description of tone. My best friend used the term "killer" for the best tone. I still do, in his stead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princeofdarkness56 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Yeah, but does sound organic ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakeboy Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 Tone is hard to describe sometimes....but “3D”smacks of TGP knobbery... see RobB’s post for further elucidation. People often say the tweed Bassman and Bandmaster have a “swirling” tone, and they are refueling to the multiple speaker interplay, not Trem or vibrato. Good Tone can be hard to describe, but I know it when I hear it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Studio Custom Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 What ever happened to haunting mids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devnor Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 My IIC+ has 3D amp tone in spades. Do I get double points for that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixesandsevens Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 9 hours ago, Jakeboy said: People often say the tweed Bassman and Bandmaster have a “swirling” tone, and they are refueling to the multiple speaker interplay, not Trem or vibrato. I think you're right about it being weird phase relationships with multiple speakers. The term has often confused me so I tend to side with RobB too. I've been playing with new DAW software recently and reminds me a bit of how synth folks tend to go ga-ga for additional modulation sources. Anything to make the patch feel "dynamic" and "alive". But with guitar it's somehow a kind of tone that does it in the absence of explicit modulation - that would be... cheating? It's almost more like the way analog synths drift a little and provide a bit of non-determinism to the tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitcomb3 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 In the old days, we called this "stereo." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disturber Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 You need to tape one pair of these over both your ears to hear it. Red over the right ear, and the blue over the left ear. It's a bit of a hazzle but so worth it. It really works. Try it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 If you flip the colors you get the Peter Green sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugartune Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 On 4/10/2019 at 9:03 AM, Studio Custom said: What ever happened to haunting mids? Great pedal and troll all in one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crunchee Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I'm kinda surprised that no one's mentioned the old-fashioned 'presence' control on some amps yet, since in most cases that's meant or supposed to increase sound factors that could be called '3-D'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
django49 Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 On 4/10/2019 at 7:26 AM, Devnor said: My IIC+ has 3D amp tone in spades. Do I get double points for that? Wait......3D from a 2C? What brand of batteries are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbonesullivan Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 I know that many describe EL34s has having a kind of "3D Swirl of sound", but that's about it. Otherwise, sounds like cork sniffing.. or sniffing something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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