Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Speaker emulation is one of the most crucial, and sometimes overlooked, parts of a software signal chain for guitar or bass. We tend to obsess about having the right amp simulator, forgetting just how much a speaker and its cabinet affect the tone in “real” rigs. In fact, a great amp sim with a terrible IR is going to sound bad 99 times out of 100—awesome tone is that dependent on speaker emulation.

An impulse response (IR) is a snapshot of a speaker cabinet’s sonic characteristics. This includes the frequency response, edge response, as well as the phase response. In a digital rig, you’d insert an IR after the amp in the signal path, just like connecting an amp to a speaker cabinet.

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