how do you feel about the "amp modeler plugins"

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:45 pm

ouzo77 wrote:

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There is one area where they fail to produce....
"Playing into the feedback".

not anymore. there's a new plugin called "acoustic feedback" by softube which emulates a natural feedback. didn't try it, but the samples on their website sound quite impressive.

OK....I must look into that.
I don't really see how it could work because the act of leaning into or away from your guitar amp to produce different amounts of feedback tone on a moment by moment basis would still seem to require the guitarist to lean into or away from some speaker enclosure.

LATER: Ok...I see.. you have to turn a knob to control the feedback amount after the fact.
A useful tool for an engineer, but there's no way these guitarists who play that way would give up on it and try to fiddle some knob after they played the track. Impossible really because the guitarist would have to guess how what they are playing would respond to slight changes in feedback.

Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:15 pm

I'm a total gear snob when it comes to my guitar rig: Soldano SLO100, Soldano Racks, Bogner Fish pre, VHT power amps, etc.

That said, the some of those amp plug-ins don't sound half bad. They don't have the same picking dynamics as a high-end tube amp, but they sound better than a cheap solid state amp any day of the week. Not to mention when I'm doing some quick writing/recording on the fly, it's whole lot easier to just use a the amp plug-in for the rough draft than it is to set up a real amp set up.

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