Re: Analog distortion pedal into Digital Amp modeling
There's a famous rock guitarist in my country that regularly perform live with digital multi-fx (not sure what it is, probably a pod). I'm talking a few thousand attendees. Only when it's stadium sized gig he would bring his soldanos.
So I think it's possible to use digital fx live, but you need to dial it differently than you would for lower volume/recording. Good relationship with the soundman helps too.
Digital gear clips really bad whenever you overload the signal. You can ultimately get a louder signal using an analog signal path since the components have a much higher tolerance of wider dynamic ranges. You can overload analog components to color one's sound with each unit's inherent harmonic distortion added flavor to the mix.
Digital gear has a line in the sand that you can't cross. Crossing that line gets REALLY bad sounding distortion that isn't musically pleasing in any way. One must NEVER cross the zero mark with digital gear.
Digital gear has a line in the sand that you can't cross. Crossing that line gets REALLY bad sounding distortion that isn't musically pleasing in any way. One must NEVER cross the zero mark with digital gear.
So I think it's possible to use digital fx live, but you need to dial it differently than you would for lower volume/recording. Good relationship with the soundman helps too.
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