Re: Your attitude toward modeler gear and modeler software
A Kemper Profiling amp is around $3000 but you would have to spend 100 times that to own all of the amplifiers... it's really a cost and ease of use thing.
To get a non master volume tube amp to break up properly you need to turn it up so loud that you will damage your hearing if you are in the same room as it is.
The biggest thing with master volume tune amps is that when you play light, it's clean and when you hit it hard, it's dirty... the top of the line modelers all can do that with aplomb.
Of course, the wealthy members will all tell you that you can't get good tone unless you shell out big bucks for a vintage or boutique tube amp that is really great at getting one or two different tones to fall in love with.
You then end up with a very expensive pedalboard full of gadgets to make that vintage or boutique tune amp more versatile... and that eventually leads to another vintage or boutique tube amp purchase.
And when you want to record... you gotta buy MICROPHONES, PREAMP(S) and an INTERFACE or other DAW hardware. Oh my God... you mean we have to learn how to use this stuff to actually get a recorded signal?
Should have just bought a Kemper and been done and on to the next song already.
I would rather profile my amps and play them through a Kemper than play the amps themselves. I live in a duplex and can't turn my tube amps past 2.
I also don't like losing takes whenever a large dump truck drives by or someone turns on their lawn equipment across the street... of course, the wealthy members will wonder where my private secluded studio with thousands of dollars worth of sound treatment is and why I am not using it.
Not all great musicians are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Some of us have to make do with what we have and are tired of unreasonable expectations from unrealistic people on the gear we use.
Of course, "Black Dog" was recorded through the mixing board... so was the "Another Brick in the Wall" solo... and so was the "Reelin in the Years" solo.
Those are three of the most iconic tones of the 20th century and they were achieved without an amplifier (sort of early attempts at modeling IMHO).
I personally think that when it comes to modeling vs tube amps, "The luddites just love the errant & amateur sound of the ringing electric guitar strings combined with the sound of a distorted iPhone".
