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Pure heaven, compared to too loud stages with my cab placed at whatever unfortunate spot. These days, I just bring a little mixer and my FRFR wedge and should that be not desirable but there's a personal monitoring path for myself, I simply get my InEars out and plug into my mixer. So, in all these situations, for me modeling has shown some *major* advances. But how many of us are? I for one am not, it's clubs, corporate events, theaters and what not - none of them with any particular interest in pleasing the dreaded guitar player with his sound ideas. Moot points in case you're playing in a top act where everything is taken care of. I have been through all that and my personal resume would be that in around 70-80% of all cases I could not get the ideal sound out of my equipment (or simply not listen to it the way I'd have liked to). And they're worth absolutely nothing anymore once whatever authorities (be it MDs, your bandmates, the sound guy or the location owner) demand you to turn things down, place them anywhere else or even demand that there's no stage volume at all. But, these are rather unpredictable setups, especially when using them live.
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I have been playing such rigs for, well, decades. Sure, I give it to anybody that there's a sort of "physical sensation" when playing a nice amp through a great sounding cab at volume, with yourself being placed just right in the sweet spot. Now, we may still argue whether the feel of playing any of these units is close to playing a real amp - but especially through a typical monitoring system (be it studio monitors or whatever IEM stuff onstage), I'd take any bet that most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference at all anymore, at least not once we're in the league of Axe FXs and Kempers (and partially the Line 6, Atomicamps and Boss offerings, either). I have already heard a bunch of Axe FX tones that I would never be able to tell from a real (high quality) amp. But that Cliff Chase dude is really onto something IMO, pretty much on the bleeding edge of technology or so.
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And well, it actually is as expensive as many tube amps, especially given that you still need something for the final amplification. Are there any open-source amp-sim project? Are Kemper building something new? While I agree on pretty much everything (especially products being created for the mass market), there's the Axe FX already - which goes pretty much beyond mass market demands. Most technology markets have a tipping point, where somebody does something radical that shifts the balance. And for folks that already have a tube amp, why would they switch? They wouldn't - as we have seen on this thread! There are many things that could be done better already, but most product development is aimed at the mass market - it would take a lot of investment to to get a product that is good enough to completely replace a tube amp, and right now it would probably cost more to buy than a tube amp. And in case there's some drawbacks, these will usually be adressed rather quickly (such as those discussed in this very thread). Without even the slightest hint of a doubt, digital will take over in pretty much all aspects of musical production where it's even remotely suitable. These days, nobody even thinks about using hardware for sampling anymore (unless it's for highly specialized tasks and/or live playing). Just 3 years (maybe even less) later, Gigasampler had already replaced most AKAIs. "No way this will ever be used on any serious production!". But in a decade things will look completely different.Īnecdote: I've been at the Musikmesse when Steinberg presented the very first VST instruments (anyone remember Neon?). With guitar amps, it'll be exactly the same. Seriously, if all people were as conservative as some guitarists (or as some "guitar sound centered producers"), studios would still be using all AKAIs (if they would use samplers at all) and large analog racks.Īnd while some still are, these are almost antique items - and they're not exactly needed to get a great sounding production going. Maybe they have not yet been modelled, but it doesn't mean they can't be.This! There seems to be a myth out there that there are certain non-linear behaviours that cannot be modelled.