Virtual guitar amps/analog guitar amps

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EricIndecisive said:
On the other hand, you have amps. .................... Tubes need replacing.
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that's actually much less of an issue than many make it out to be. First off , few of you guys put enough time on the amps to ever need to change the pre amp tubes. I gig almost nightly and I might look at my pre amp tubes after 7 or 8 years and very few of ya'll put that many hours on your tubes.
Power tubes ...... on an amp that I gig with say 250 times a year I'll change power tubes maybe in 2 or 3 years. That's around 1000 hours of kicking.
But over in here in Florida I use so many different amps that none of them get more than maybe 50 gigs in a year ...... 200 hours ..... so maybe in 10 years I'll start thinking about it!
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I doubt very seriously any of you put 1000 hours a year on your amps so really your power tubes outta be good for 10 years and your preamp tubes forever.
 
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moresound said:
What am I doing wrong then? :D
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You might need different "help" material. Just because you're 100 years old doesn't mean you need to look at grandma p0rn. :D

DM60 said:
I am sure the pharma companies don't care how one uses their pills.
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I suppose not. I've heard of bodybuilders using viagra for the "pump" and increased blood flow.
 
Greg_L said:
You might need different "help" material. Just because you're 100 years old doesn't mean you need to look at grandma p0rn. :
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LOL @grandma p0rn.
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This is a long thread and I don't wanna go and read it all but ... Has anyone chimed in with the kemper sim yet?
 
moresound said:
This is a long thread and I don't wanna go and read it all but ... Has anyone chimed in with the kemper sim yet?
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Yup, several of us have. I actually like the idea of it - stealing the essence of real amps.
 
Lt. Bob said:
that's actually much less of an issue than many make it out to be.
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Right.
I've actually burned out maybe less than 3-4 tubes in all the years I've used tube amps....and a couple of them I simply pushed over the edge almost consciously....like running the amp dimed, but with an attenuator on it real low, and then doing that for like 4-5 hours while jamming and rehearsing on a couple of tracks.
I loved the sound....so I sacrificed a couple of EL34 tubes. :D
 
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Pro guitarist...no amp since 1985...don't miss it...

Pinky said:
Sound is subjective, but what I produce since going virtual (2012 onward) certainly doesn't sound poor.

It matters A LOT to most people, since very few us of are rolling in spare cash. And really, if spending less gets you more value/use, then why the hell not?
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I agree completely. Amps give you their one color and sound, diminished by the limited frequency response of a speaker, no matter what speaker you are using, and then further diminished by a mic which may or may not be placed properly, and then your amp, if you like to play loud, which bleeds over into everyone else's microphones....

In this day and age of in-ear monitors, virtual perfect amp sims at the push of a button and infinitely programmable guitar tone multi-effects unit, using a huge amp stack to get your sound is impractical and just silly. Actually, if you do some research, there are quite a few bands that, for years, have used fake stacks for the visual effect, but are either using virtual plugins or modeling preamps. That's reality. That is progress. And, agree or not, IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO PROGRAM THEM PROPERLY, they sound far better than any amp ever did and with more control. Your soundman will love you, and so will the rest of the band.

Onward into the future.....and here's to saving your back!

I've used rackmount effects as my prime voice source ever since the Roland GP-8 came out in 1985. For my own personal monitoring, I use 2 powered monitors facing back at me onstage and I put my monitor mix in those whenever in-ear mixes are not available. And I can still hear after all these years of doing it. The quality of doing it that way is that my live mix sounds just like my studio mix, something that you can't quite say with using amps.

Just my two cents, but I've been doing it for a LONG time....:guitar:
 
Divinit said:
I agree completely. Amps give you their one color and sound, diminished by the limited frequency response of a speaker, no matter what speaker you are using, and then further diminished by a mic which may or may not be placed properly, and then your amp, if you like to play loud, which bleeds over into everyone else's microphones....

In this day and age of in-ear monitors, virtual perfect amp sims at the push of a button and infinitely programmable guitar tone multi-effects unit, using a huge amp stack to get your sound is impractical and just silly. Actually, if you do some research, there are quite a few bands that, for years, have used fake stacks for the visual effect, but are either using virtual plugins or modeling preamps. That's reality. That is progress. And, agree or not, IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO PROGRAM THEM PROPERLY, they sound far better than any amp ever did and with more control. Your soundman will love you, and so will the rest of the band.

Onward into the future.....and here's to saving your back!

I've used rackmount effects as my prime voice source ever since the Roland GP-8 came out in 1985. For my own personal monitoring, I use 2 powered monitors facing back at me onstage and I put my monitor mix in those whenever in-ear mixes are not available. And I can still hear after all these years of doing it. The quality of doing it that way is that my live mix sounds just like my studio mix, something that you can't quite say with using amps.

Just my two cents, but I've been doing it for a LONG time....:guitar:
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Lol. There's so many holes and flaws in this logic that it's not even worth going through. And all that to SIMULATE what you'd get with an actual amp. So lame. :laughings:
 
Greg_L said:
There's so many holes and flaws in this logic that it's not even worth going through.:
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Yeah...I agree.

When I read this:
"Amps give you their one color and sound, diminished by the limited frequency response of a speaker, no matter what speaker you are using, and then further diminished by a mic which may or may not be placed properly..."

...and this:
"I use 2 powered monitors facing back at me onstage and I put my monitor mix in those whenever in-ear mixes are not available..."

I had to laugh. :D

First he talks about diminished sound from the limited frequency response of a spealker....then he says he uses two floor wedges or in-ear buds to get his tone.
:laughings:
 
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