Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

[lareplus]

I got an RP155 today because I wanted clean amp tones a la Bassman and AC15 and man that pedal made me mad. . .just hiss hissy hissy.

I hate noisy pedals. Other pedals I plug into aren't noisy.

Back it goes with it's 9v adaptor between its legs. Nice feature set though and great price point.

sigh. . .

Anyone got any recommendations for an all in one pedal that can give good cleans for the Fender BASSMAN and the Vox AC15. . .clean!

and no extra noise, please. .

[jtougas]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

Check out the Tech 21 gear... I've been happy with all of the stuff I've picked up from them:

TradeMark 10
Bass Driver DI
Acoustic Driver DI

[Mincer]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

Tech21 has their Blonde and Liverpool pedals...both sound wonderful. If you need an all-in-one with effects solution, check out the very quiet POD HD 300 or 400 too.

[Hurricane]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

Most times these amp/cam modelers don't sound good pumped into a guitar amp to put it simply .

To get it to sound it's best some times you have to run them through a clean as can be distortion less amp . A stereo amp is best if you want to get as much as you can out of this set up if it offers stereo outputs .

Sounds crazy but it works best this way with many modelers including Digitech . I know cause I own a Digitech GNX4 DAW and it's got the same basic guts as what you tried in that RP155 .

And remember to turn the out put setting correctly on the RP155 , this is a common error many make and blame the unit when in actuality the right output configuration switch was not engage correctly resulting in a:

" Tiny " and " thin " sound and not a " fat " one .

Check this out first before you send it back .

Easy man :

Hurricane Ramon

[DankStar]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

I figured it'd be a versatile/useful headphone amp and direct recording tool. Never really thought of how they'd perform into an amp.

[Hurricane]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

I figured it'd be a versatile/useful headphone amp and direct recording tool. Never really thought of how they'd perform into an amp.

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Some do some don't . Depends , I know guys who love going through a POD-DAW- & P . A . system board and then through the monitors to hear themselves . Some would rather eat glass and gouge their eyes out with a dull knife than do this .

I have gotten great results with my DAW and I own vintage tube amps and stuff .

Lately I have been gong the " lightweight " approach to small venues when I do a duet or solo , I have found in these situations the DAW is more versatile .

Doesn't mean I'm dumping my tube amps though , I still love them . When I sit in with friends sometimes all I bring is a singular tube amp for either harp or guitar and or both .

It's all good .


Hurricane Ramon

[ehdwuld]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

on my GNX pedal
it says to turn off speaker simulation when going thru an amp
I run my amp sims in thru the effects loop return
to avoid the guitar amps preamp
and no speaker sims unless using headphones or direct recording

[BRHGM]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

Love my Tech 21 British.

[DrNewcenstein]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

Another point to consider about noise - make sure the power adapter cable is not crossing the signal (guitar) cable.

I thought I had a cable going bad recently because I was getting a lot of hiss/noise in my tracks. Then I moved the ABY box and it went away. I noticed a thin AC adapter cable had somehow weaved between the Input and one of the Output cables of the ABY box, and once I re-routed it, the nosie went away.

[lareplus]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

that's useful information. . .also found out that a laptop plugged into the same circuit can mess up sound. .

[P.A.Foholic]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

AMT pedals ---> interface ---> DAW = win

[Chickenwings]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

AMT pedals ---> interface ---> DAW = win

**** that sounds epic.

but to the OP....its a cheapo digital amp emulator plugged into another amp altogether. what were you thinking?

[jtougas]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

He was thinking it was what he had available, would be my guess. *Grin*

[Chickenwings]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

thats how a lot of compaies part young players fron their hard earned cash i guess. Promises of tonal bliss. The sansamp stuff is good tho, but even that wont make one amp sound like anotehr amp.

[jtougas]

Re: Amp Emulator pissed me off. .

No, they won't. They work best going into a PA mic channel, or straight into a power amp.