The Official Guitar Thread

alavaz said:

Those kempers are awesome. That's what I'm saving for, probably the last amp I'll ever need.

As far as what it does, you can basically mic up an amp that you really love the sound of (i.e. MB dual rectifier) and it will profile it and then you can use that profile anytime you want. It then works like a real amp where you can add effects to it, tweak the EQ etc and it will (theoretically) sound like the amp you profiled with those effects. You of course don't have to do this profiling yourself, you can download profiles.

They like to say it's not a modeling amp and all that, but it is the same thing. It's still just digital simulation of sound they just do it fuckloads better than anyone else at the moment.

Also, forgot to add that it does have preloaded profiles. I'm also not sure what you mean by use it with a computer - if you mean plug it directly into an interface or something to record then yes. If you mean using some sort of software to control and manage it then I think also yes, but I haven't used it for myself.

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Ok, thanks, that sounds awesome.

So how would you use this in a live jam session type environment? Im assuming this is not powered, or relatively low power, so it would have to be run through some type of an amp and then to a speaker cabinet/PA amp??

Wow, just researching this a bit I guess people have set up profiles you can buy for like $15 using true vntage tube amps and effects, like the van halen pack. Fucking incredible sound... Well if you can play like van halen, lol. This to me seems like the most exciting shit to hit the guitar world since the power amp.



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alavaz said:

Yeah something like that. I had planned on just plugging it straight to my mixer and then play it through my monitors (basically what I do with my pod right now). I hadn't thought of wanting to travel with it...

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Not really travelling but we get together in basements still to jam out, bass, guitar, singer, and drums. Im usually drums, but have been itching to learn more guitar. Also my kid is showing interest too. $1800 seem really cheap for what you are getting too. We usually go to brother in laws house since hes still single and hass all the shit there, PA system, marshall 1/2 stack, bass hookup, and yamaha maple custom drums. I have some shit at my house like drums, of course, a few guitars, old vintage peavey amp, and a small cheap PA system.

Well like I said I have an old peavey which is pretty nice but with all that tax money Im probably gonna pick that bitch up. and let me and the boys I play with fuck around with it.

Just got this fucker...

Was wondering if something like this would work. Instead of going with something like the modeling amp, amp and speaker cabinet, maybe I could go with a laptop, amp modeling software, focuserite scarlett, and a $300 PA cabinet speaker, you know those new ones that DJs sling around with them? Can get a good 12" 400-500W one for like $300-$400. And from what im hearing the amp modeling software on PC is pretty fucking good these days, shit like bias fx which they have versions that cost as little as a fucking PC game.

Shits gotten crazy in the last 10 or so years. I remember us fucking around with a $1000 8track back in the 90s trying to record our shit while playing (and it sounded like shit because of bad mikes and all analog). Now you can get some relatively cheap gears thats near studio quality all digital. Shit that scarlett comes with stripped down 16 channel studio mixing/arrainging software, lol. I was even looking into whats available for the drums, and its stupid cheap these days. $200 for a set of decent 7 mike set, and another $300 for a tascam 8 channel I/O device to get it into your computer. Sure it wont be studio quality mike setup, but 1000% better than what we had back in the day. I dont even know why anyone would fuck around with old cabinet like amps anymore. I know this is probably not new to any of you dudes, but it sure is for me. Shit ive been out of the loop on all this shit since most of the dudes I play with are all still old school, not the computer types if you know what I mean. I think both the guitar dudes would be amazed if I showed them any of this shit.

Check out that sound, $300 set of mikes. It's crazy.....

So anyone here do any of this digital music shit on the PC?

My thought, I was going to take my old i5 2500K box I have lying around in the basement 1/2 scrapped and make a digital amp/studio out of it using focuserite for a interface for now. Maybe get a tascam+mikes later for drums.

Anyway would that 2500K be enough processor for that kind of shit? All that I think the box is missing is HDs and video card, but I have several older ones I can plug in there. also probably memorey since its only got 4 gigs. Would be kind of fun experiment to fuck with my kids which have kind of taken interest in the whole music thing as of late. Was thinking of just getting a cheap PA type powered cabinet for the output with the guitar and bass.

So maybe a new mo bo and one of those new i7 6 cores would do the trick then. Damn thats like a grand right there, lol. Maybe ill set up the i5 first and see how it runs, if it sucks, then maybe it will be time to upgrade.

mkopec said:

So maybe a new mo bo and one of those new i7 6 cores would do the trick then. Damn thats like a grand right there, lol. Maybe ill set up the i5 first and see how it runs, if it sucks, then maybe it will be time to upgrade.

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Take a look at the ryzen CPUs, typically outperform their intel counterparts in multicore operations for less $