sorry for the meaningless post...just aggravated and need to vent...
I tried it every way possible last night using the Reactor/Line 6 POD XTL Combo/Stack EQs..and tweaking the crap out of all my pre-sets.
Still never could dial out the buzziness without cutting the highs to the point of mud. It def feels like a tube amp, but there's this huge lower midrange spike that makes it sound "congested." Like tunnelvision, only with sound. The "directional" comment people make I guess, but it's obnoxiously so. I used the Focus EQ on the XTL to try and pull out the over projection and no go. Went back into studio direct (with mic sims), and tweaked and tweaked....meh...
I was a/b' ing last night with my Rivera to try and dial/in mimic it....no comparison really. Night and Day. I don't mean the tube vs. digital issue..I mean just the "real amp" sound. Then I plugged the XTL back into the Rivera and much better...def not as warm as in the Reactor, but at least it doesn't have that "congestion" issue...there it sounds like "real" SS amp.
Funny thing is, when I turn off the amp sim and play basically directly through the Reactor clean, it has a nice warm jazzy EL-84 clean sound
Back to the drawing board...
I tried it every way possible last night using the Reactor/Line 6 POD XTL Combo/Stack EQs..and tweaking the crap out of all my pre-sets.
Still never could dial out the buzziness without cutting the highs to the point of mud. It def feels like a tube amp, but there's this huge lower midrange spike that makes it sound "congested." Like tunnelvision, only with sound. The "directional" comment people make I guess, but it's obnoxiously so. I used the Focus EQ on the XTL to try and pull out the over projection and no go. Went back into studio direct (with mic sims), and tweaked and tweaked....meh...
I was a/b' ing last night with my Rivera to try and dial/in mimic it....no comparison really. Night and Day. I don't mean the tube vs. digital issue..I mean just the "real amp" sound. Then I plugged the XTL back into the Rivera and much better...def not as warm as in the Reactor, but at least it doesn't have that "congestion" issue...there it sounds like "real" SS amp.
Funny thing is, when I turn off the amp sim and play basically directly through the Reactor clean, it has a nice warm jazzy EL-84 clean sound
Back to the drawing board...
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