Re: Amp Sim LePou SoloC tested and wins!
why are you messin' with sims when you got all the mics and nice amps? just curious.
Sims are the future IMHO. I sold off all my amps and pedals last year and work totally with sims now and couldn't be happier, plus the sig other certainly likes not having a room full of amps and cabs and boxes all over the floor and the cost savings.
Mic'ing and recording was always a PITA, both to get it to sound right, as well as to redo takes, and also just finding a time/place to be able to do it.
With a sim I can record a track anytime, anywhere, get the tones I'm after, and change different amps, cabs, mics etc after I've already recorded a track.
Not to mention having the sheer ability to basically have any amp, cab, mic, rack unit, effects box etc I could want at my disposal and not be able to click a mouse and call that routing and program up, no more spending 45 minutes patching together cables in a new order, instead just click a mouse.
Functionally as well, being able to always play and record with the ability to have drum tracks from EZDrummer going, my time based effects synced to the midi clock and more is really helpful as well.
Check out Overloud Th1 and get an idea of some of the tones and versatility you can get using a sim these days.
Sims are going to just keep on getting better as well. The days where it will make sense to have tens of thousands of dollars tied up in gear, and all its limitations in getting that tone to tape, transportation issues, maintaince etc are not going to be around much longer I dont think.
People will still have and enjoy their amps, just like some people still enjoy shooting old film camera's, but amp sims, just like digital photography will one day become the standard method of working for a great number of people.
