Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

loudriver23

loudriver23

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I'm curious as to how the newer modeling amps, POD's, multi-FX treat the different pickups. The reason I ask, is that I've been messing around with garageband and the built in amp models. It doesn't matter what pickup I use, neck, bridge, strat, or tele, they all sound just about the same.
I am in need of a small bedroom type amp situation, but I really want my tele to sound like a tele, strat like a strat, and a snozzberry to taste like a snozzberry.
So, what are your experiences? Am I better off going with a <5 Watt tube amp?
What says you?
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

Garageband's amp models suck for anything but clean tones, IMO.

The Fender Mustang and most of the other modelers made by real guitar amp companies are all MUCH better.

Find a Mustang 1 and run that into garageband set to record a real instrument, you'll hear a strat sound like a strat and everything else sounds how it should as well.

I love the GB program but the amp models BLOW.
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

Thanks FuseG4, I'm happy it wasn't just me going crazy at how bad the amp models work. How do you think a POD would do in the same regard, would it behave more like an the Mustang, or like GB?
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

sorry I forgot about this thread.

anything with halfway decent cab simulation will sound alright through garageband. PODs included. When going through USB you just have to worry about latency, and I've found 4GB of RAM to be sufficient while running my mustang I into the USB, and if I start to hear latency, I just save my work, restart my laptop, and get back to doing it and everything's usually fine.
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

I've found my POD XT live to be very sensitive to different pickups. I have a hard to make a patch that would sound good with the bridge and neck pickup of a guitar.
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

sometimes I've noticed that, with certain models on the mustang, but only through headphones or recording... it makes my neck pickup sound more bassy, when through the speaker it's fine...

These days, especially with a les paul, I EQ for the neck pickup, and however bright the bridge pickup seems after that, I just deal with it. That's why they make vol and tone controls, right?
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

With the prices dropping on the 11rack those are starting to seem temping too. I've heard some awesome demos come out of those.
 
Re: Digi amps, and their interactions with pickups.

Mostly it has to do with how well you dial in your amps (read: program your patches).

It also has to do with the quality of the pickups.
 
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