7 Jul
2011
7 Jul
'11
5:44 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Charles Henry <czhenry(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Brett McCoy
<idragosani(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I use some amp modeling software for recording and experimenting, but
for the real meat of my guitar work, I still mike my trusty Marshall
head via 4x12 cab, it's really what's needed for a thick powerful
sound :-) Usually what I will do is layer sounds, put down a couple
rhythm tracks using a modeled tone and then layer the live amp on top
of that to sweeten the sound (and for the lead guitar parts).
One other benefit of amp modeling, of course, is that you can record
in an apartment or similar where you can't blast a Marshall stack just
to record.
--
Brett W. McCoy -- http://www.electricminstrel.com
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden; If I were to divulge it,
it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
Amp modeling is really big (using Amplitube, Line
6 hardware or even
guitarix), you can get pretty good sounds out of that. Amp modeling
played through a tube amp and miked gives you the best of both
worlds... more control over your tone and the warm tube-y sound.
While I don't want to argue the quality or a matter of preference or
the exact implementation--I completely disagree with the principle!
Amp modeling software should take the place of using tube amps in the
first place. The filtering and non-linear qualities of the amp being
modeled are what you want to reproduce, not the noise, or the
transformers' hum. The notion of creating amp modeling
software/hardware is to reduce costs compared to keeping a ton of
different amps for just the right tone, per application. I think the
most efficient thing to do is to introduce the characteristic
distortion and filtering you want by a processor.
So, you should run the processed sound through an amp that has very
clean, low distortion characteristics (would be nice if such
hardware/software had capability to analyze the output of the
amplifier in use... one can dream... or design it).
That said... nothing sounds like a tube amp, quite like a tube amp :)
Amp modeling software doesn't take the place of tube amps in every
application. Just watch out for the audiophile hocus-pocus that comes
with comparing amplifiers to each other.