When ever I hear digitized guitar signals they tend to have a dull attack(sounds very compressed). Is there something about consumer grade ADC's where they cannot handle the transient's as well as tubes?
I don't know if it's the processing after the ADC's or what but there seems to be something strange sounding with all digital versions of tube processing. I only hear the issue on the sharp attack of notes rather than on the sustained sound.
Is this the ADC? The input to the ADC or the after? It's pretty obvious to anyone with ears that there is a big difference. I just always figured it was in the software but after hearing several different products(pedals, computer, etc...) all having a similar issue with the attack it got me to wondering about the ADC's themselves.