Re: Modeling amp technology still lagging
I embrace moddeling technology!
It's the digital revolution that takes everything to a higher standard.
It's practical, it's relatively inexpensive when compared to real tube amps, it's fairly easy to use and it sounds a whole lot better than Solid State amps. Best part is that you can just use headphones when the situation asks for it and still sound good! Ever plugged in headphones in a SS amp? Then you can hear how bad it sounds even better! Nobody can crank up tube amps all the time to get 'real deal' tones! Shure we all want that but the reality is that we also need something practical and easy to plug in when you feel like playing guitar instantly at a time or place we can't crank it. No warming up either, just instant tone. No more 'boxy sounding' distortion pedals needed.
I wish it had existed when I was young and started playing guitar!
Let me tell you a little story:
I got my first amp when I was 19 i think. I wanted a tube amp because I already knew those were the amps you'd want when you play guitar. Most amps everyone had back then were valvestate's and bandid's. I thought they sounded like $hite, thin and buzzy. Sterile. Nothing like the music I grew up with: Queen, Toto, Metallica etc. all bands that use huge tube rigs.
So I got a Randall 2x12 combo and a metal zone so I could have the supposed good cleans of the Randall and the 'fat' distortion of the metal zone. I thought it was a cool black box anyway. It never gave me the tone I was looking for but it was the closest thing that was affordable trying to sound huge like those bands already mentioned. Tube amps were simply too expensive.
I wish they had Line 6 spiders back then. I think they sound pretty good considering the price you pay for them. Same price range as the bandids, the valvestate's,high & knetter's or whatever ss crap that is in practise spaces you rent with bands for 30 bucks 3-4 hours to sound like $hite!
How many good bands ended up sounding bad like that? How many people got put off from music because of the hassle? How many people listening would walk away because of the high pitched sounds or dull muffled sounds inherent to these kind of amps? How many girls did you not impress becasue of that!
(remember: pretty girls have pretty ears!)
I wish they had moddeling amps back then so I never got around buying a good expensive tube amp, so I never got around buying a car that would fit a 4x12, so I never got around buying SD pickups to sound even better, so I never got addicted to the 'real deal' hauling around tons of equipment and piss of band members who have to carry around your stuff lol.
(Let the bass player carry your guitars and push your amp and cab around on a skateboard lol) So I never got into this forum, learning a ton about music and equipment.
Kids today have much more to choose from and sound better too (even if they dont have the chops) because moddeling amps really sound better than their obsolete counterparts.
I see no reason getting a higher end expensive tube moddeler that costs as much as a good tube amp. When you get serious about this stuff, and are willing to pay a lot of money for sweet equipment, why not get the real deal and find a good place to crank it up? No, the lower grade models are fine for the money sounding half decent, just make shure your guitar is properly set up and rock on!
Try this: Yamaha Audiogram with cubase included and amplitube or guitar rig. Get a good cabinet emulator software (can be downloaded for free legally) and try to beat that for a home recording set-up! Of course you need to have a good pc so the driver won't lagg you but who hasn't one already. you can sound huge these days without spending a lot of money! And you can sound good though your own stereo and speakers!
This new generation of modeling software IS the $hit!
I embrace the digital revolution.
