Whilst I agree there´s nothing like a real amp, and I´m not a fan of digital modellers I´ve had some reasonable results with solid-state modellers in a home studio environment.
I´ve got one of these which I´ve used for home recording and live through a PA cab as an alternative to carrying a...
buckkillr8 - I'm not particularly feeling inclined to build my own this time round since so much effort was expended on the last one for minimal success. Plus building PCs isn't really my forte so I'm usually relying on the goodwill of friends to sort out teething problems on these things...
Thanks for your responses so far.
Budget wise I was hoping to get something for around £400, but I have gig money coming in so if I need to spend more it'd just be a question of holding out a bit longer to save up.
I'm a newbie like yourself but installing LE with my Alesis IO2 I found I needed to set the IO2 as default soundcard in the control panel (ie so it runs as the main soundcard even when you aren't using cubase) to fix conflict problems with the onboard soundcard. Prodding which drivers do what...
Well I'm hoping to have enough oomph to demo a small band - vocals, 2 x guitars and drums but not necessarily recording simultaneously. I'd like enough head room track wise to overdub guitar solos on seperate tracks, multi track vocals etc when the mood takes me. I do use the VST effects for...
I apologise if this is a rookie question but a friend of mine a blues forum directed me here as somewhere that could more usefully help with this....
The PC I cobbled together from old parts that I had been using for recording has just died...but it was never really stable enough anyhow...