Software or Hardware?

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Do you use/prefer software or hardware guitar processing?

  • Software Only

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Hardware Only

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • Software and Hardware

    Votes: 10 34.5%

  • Neither, I'm a hardcore mic-man!

    Votes: 9 31.0%
  • Total voters
    29
I like the sound of my Triple Rectifier through my Randall ISO recording cabinet with a Sennheiser E609. Then I EQ it with software from there.

Amplitube sounds good, but it just doesn't sound "alive" like a real recording setup. I'd rather spend money on one great sound than a bunch of mediocre ones. The key is to have a versatile amp and guitars to work with. While the Rectifier may not be the most versatile amp (especially when it comes to clean sounds), with the right settings and guitar/pickup choice, you can get a lot of tone from one setup.

I keep telling myself I'm not going to buy a Roland JC-120 for clean sounds. The temptation is hard to resist.
 
haha, I had a roland JC. I still don't know how I could buy this amp. I think the main reason was because it colored the sound coming out of my cheap multi-effects the least.
damn - at that time I had no clue of good tone.
nevertheless the JCs are great amps when played with a good guitar.

... hm, I might have kept it if I had enough money to have the JC, a plexi, a fender twin and a JCM800. perhaps even a couple of each :p , with different setting and a big switch-board in front of it. aaaaah :D :D who needs modelers? :rolleyes:

oh yeah, and I forgot the soundproof room to keep the neighbours friendly.
 
I'm gonna go with the tube amp crew here. I started out in the modelling crowd, working with J-Stations, PODs, V-Amps, etc, then went to the Tech21 Trademark amps which do tube modelling instead of amp modelling, and now I've finally found what I'm after with my Orange AD30TC. So many people want to use settings and presets and whatnot to get the "different" sounds that they are after, and totally fail to realize that the start of all of those different sounds is in the fingers.

I can take my Orange and my Epi Les Paul and without changing any settings on either, get a really wide range of sounds simply by varying not only how hard I play, but the angle of pick attack and release, and what chord formations I use, and a huge change can be found in the left-hand work.

Basically, modellers can get you the sounds of different amps. A good, quality tube amp can get you the sounds of whatever you sound like when you play, and the sound of the guitar you are using.

The story is told of Jaco Pastoruis (spelling?), a phenomenal bassist, and also many other guitarists and such. Jaco was playing backstage before a show, and the bassist from one of the opening bands came up to him and asked him what equipment and settings he was using to get his sound. Jaco just said "here, I'll show you how to get my sound", and then took the other guy's bass, plugged into the other guy's rig and just started playing. It sounded almost just like it did on his own rig with his own bass.

The example has been used over and over again of the master violinist who was at an auction and saw a beat up, ugly looking violin that was only selling for a few dollars. He picked it up and just started playing. By the time he was done, the auction price was in the tens of thousands of dollars. Nothing changed about the violin, except the person playing it.

The sound and the beauty of tone starts in the fingers, not in the equipment. However, there is some equipment that is capable of completely killing that beauty. I found that all the modellers I played were not capable of reproducing anything close to the dynamic range I can get out of a single note on a single string from my Epi Les Paul through my Orange.
 
I'm not familiar with any, but I'm sure somebody somewhere makes them.
 
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