TLfreakingDR warning
It’s all good. There is however two sides in all this.
One could argue that (if the legacy cabs were better) a new user with no experience with mics and how to set a cab up, would be helped by Line 6 curating the cabs stocks setting in a helpful way. And keep the legacy cabs simple layout and options.
The starting points and stock settings should be “standardized” or something like that. So the user feel confident in that this is the way it’s supposed to sound.
It’s the same kind of “trust” thing that many people put in IR makers.
York gained a lot of trust with curated IR mixes only because people with real experience acknowledging that “this is how it sounds”, and then people with no experience feel comfortable with that and “think” that it’s the way it should sound. And also keeping things minimum amounts of files is helping.
Line 6 should, imo, go above and beyond to give an inexperienced user the best possibilities to start off knowing that “this is how it should sound”.
Because. Far from everyone has ever put a mic in front of an amp. I haven’t, never ever did I have to do that in my band playing days, or recording in studio days. I’ve realized that between 17 and 35 (the years I was active in bands and friends, playing some gigs and took part of recordings) I didn’t know a f*****g thing about anything except standing there and do my part.
In this day with all the modelers and stuff available in them, we are thrown into a world where experience and knowledge is the key. Sure… I use my ears and it mostly turns out good. But the “I don’t know why and what I’m doing” factor combined with to many options/parameters is something that always will be the thing that either makes me put down the guitar or put my trust in someone else that knows how it should be.
I’m blowing this up and exaggerating it of course. But it’s relevant.
The new cabs are great, and sound great to me. But they are also opening a new (old) kind of problem. For some people. It’s easy for people like James, you, John the freaking Painter and Justiffer York to say this and that. But people like me and many others don’t have the kind of experiences. And that’s also why the debates about this and that between these people gets soooo tiresome. Because it won’t help.
But I’m good…
At least I feel a little better now about the starting settings of the new cab sim, than the legacy cab sim. Out of the box they sound closer to the IRs I’ve sometimes used.
