andrushkiwt
Well-known member
...18 year old technology sounds more realistic than today's amp sims?
I bought a GNX3000 recently, made by DIGITECH. It not only contains effects and crazy sounds (the main reason I wanted these things when I was younger), but, astonishingly, it contains amp and cab emulations. Yes - you can bypass the effects and crazy wah-wah/strings/underwater/Santana tones and go right to what everyone is talking about in today's guitar universe: amp sims. No different than Amplitube or Voxengo or any of the other countless attempts to recreate classic amps and cabs.
But what I find fascinating is that this 18 year old tech (gnx3000 made in 2000) does it BETTER than any of those amp sims I've used - of course, this is a personal opinion. But I've spent a lot of time on those sims, got to know them pretty well, and often had many compliments on my guitar tones with them. Straight away, the outboard pedal sounds much more realistic, to me.
Can anyone conclude why that might be? Is it a bias? Is it the science/tech inside the board itself that grants a pathway to realism?
Here's the item in question, if interested: https://homerecording.com/bbs/speci...test-purchase-341041/post4490340/#post4490340
I bought a GNX3000 recently, made by DIGITECH. It not only contains effects and crazy sounds (the main reason I wanted these things when I was younger), but, astonishingly, it contains amp and cab emulations. Yes - you can bypass the effects and crazy wah-wah/strings/underwater/Santana tones and go right to what everyone is talking about in today's guitar universe: amp sims. No different than Amplitube or Voxengo or any of the other countless attempts to recreate classic amps and cabs.
But what I find fascinating is that this 18 year old tech (gnx3000 made in 2000) does it BETTER than any of those amp sims I've used - of course, this is a personal opinion. But I've spent a lot of time on those sims, got to know them pretty well, and often had many compliments on my guitar tones with them. Straight away, the outboard pedal sounds much more realistic, to me.
Can anyone conclude why that might be? Is it a bias? Is it the science/tech inside the board itself that grants a pathway to realism?
Here's the item in question, if interested: https://homerecording.com/bbs/speci...test-purchase-341041/post4490340/#post4490340