![]() Two blended IRs is good enough IMO to get started, it helps getting rid of some of the harshness of a single mic setup. It’s just trying to do something very different than capture the experience of plugging into an amp to rock out, and I think it’s important to keep that in mind. It’s insane what you can do with software alone these days, in a recording environment, and both of those VSTs - which are NOT even remotely close to high end or cutting edge, these days - are good enough that in a pinch I wouldn’t hesitate to record with one. ![]() It’s supposed to, essentially, sound like a recording of a guitar, and not a guitar in the room.Īnd with that in mind, even free amp VSTs are surprisingly good, when used with a decent IR - the LePou Lecto got me surprisingly close to the tone I go for from my Roadster, and the Lecstacy or whatever it’s called got me some really awesome modded marshall sounds when I played around with it a bit, and is still one of the plugins I’ll occasionally reach for on bass or for an iintentionally distorted effect. It’s supposed to replicate the sound of an amp, through a specific cab, captured by a specific mic in a specific position, and possibly run through some sort of preamp and with some sort of studio FX gear like compression and EQ applied downstream of all of this. Then again, the fact he went back to a real cab may itself be pretty meaningful here.Īgain, though, I don’t say this as a knock against modeling technology - it’s important to remember that a modeler ISN’T intended to replicate the sound of an amp in a room. The real tragedy here is I have a buddy who DID go deep down the “room IR” rabbit hole with his AxeFX back when he used to own some sort of reference-grade large format speaker to play it through, but I never got a chance to run up to his place to try it out, before he eventually abandoned that approach and just opted to use a poweramp/cab for jamming/“in the room” playing, while running seperate outs with speaker emulation for recording. I think it goes beyond the IR though - maybe if you were running a modeler with a “room IR” through something like a floor wedge or a sound reinforcement speaker rather than studio monitors, but I think it ultimately has a lot to do with how an amp cabinet moves air, and how a studio monitor can’t replicate that. So, I really think it’s not modeling, per se, but something to do with the lack of a cab. On the other hand… I once played an AxeFX II belonging to Cliff at Fractal through a Carvin poweramp and the Mesa 2x12 I used to use at the time, at a get-together for another guitar site, where he pulled up some sort of Blackface type clean tone, and it felt and sounded good enough that if I hadn’t known it was a modeler, I’d have wanted to know what I was playing through just because it straight-up ruled. ![]() ![]() I do feel like I play better when I’m standing in front of and reactig to an amp, though. I’m not sure what it is - maybe the lack of low end response that a 4x12 can impart that a studio monitor doesn’t, or the sheer amount of air a cab can move, or maybe t’s the slight milisecond delay that you’re getting from on one hand all the signal processing or on the other the run of cables and the ad/da conversion in my interface/computer before it comes back out through the speakers. The huge caveat, of course, is if I were to set my rig up on another room, mic it up, and listen while I plauyed through my moniors, it ALSO wouldn’t feel the same. I’m going to say this with a huge caveat - I have yet to play any sort of modeler that I can plug in and record directly through, that “feels” the same as an amp in the room. ![]()
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