So I'm a complete tube snob when I can be- Studio always, bedroom always and live when I can.
But I've had multiple modeling rigs for years (Roland GT100 in the early 90s), because you can't always take everything with you, and in the mix, it's pretty impossible to tell the difference (if you don't believe me, the next time you're tubeing with a great FOH engineer, get him to solo your track- to get guitar sitting in the mix, they usually have to thin out most of the tube thickness).
Anyway, I got creative (read lazy) recently when I didn't want to take pedals and tube out for a little gig, so I combined my Boss GT10 with a Fender Mustang and my mind was blown...
I had planned to use the GT for FX only, but started with a complex patch that fades from a blackface to a plexi with all the beautiful in between tones-
It turns out that as I drove the GT10 from clean to crunch, it 'naturally' overloaded the blackface model in the Mustang and I had an entirely new pallet of in between sounds to play with! And when I switched over to my Mustang's hyper crunch setting (SuperSonic model), it did the same thing- lots more chewy harmonic goodness...
In retrospect, it makes sense, the Mustang is a smart enough model to respond to input gain changes, but I had always imagined that modle + model wasn't necessarily good.
In retrospect, in the studio we stack up modeled plug ins by the dozen and that works great, so clearly the old dog wasn't getting the new trick.
But I've had multiple modeling rigs for years (Roland GT100 in the early 90s), because you can't always take everything with you, and in the mix, it's pretty impossible to tell the difference (if you don't believe me, the next time you're tubeing with a great FOH engineer, get him to solo your track- to get guitar sitting in the mix, they usually have to thin out most of the tube thickness).
Anyway, I got creative (read lazy) recently when I didn't want to take pedals and tube out for a little gig, so I combined my Boss GT10 with a Fender Mustang and my mind was blown...
I had planned to use the GT for FX only, but started with a complex patch that fades from a blackface to a plexi with all the beautiful in between tones-
It turns out that as I drove the GT10 from clean to crunch, it 'naturally' overloaded the blackface model in the Mustang and I had an entirely new pallet of in between sounds to play with! And when I switched over to my Mustang's hyper crunch setting (SuperSonic model), it did the same thing- lots more chewy harmonic goodness...
In retrospect, it makes sense, the Mustang is a smart enough model to respond to input gain changes, but I had always imagined that modle + model wasn't necessarily good.
In retrospect, in the studio we stack up modeled plug ins by the dozen and that works great, so clearly the old dog wasn't getting the new trick.
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