John Mayer & The Coming Simulacra

[Tito83]

Since the beginning modelling has been very important where I live. Valve amps are not that common and pretty expensive, I've grown up playing where the vast majority of guitar players I knew used old zooms and vamps. I've witnessed a lot of them trying valve amps for the first time and hating them because they weren't as easy to play and would actively try to make the amp sound like their modeler. That still happens. I obviously 100% agree with the article, the part I find a bit funny is how this seems to come as an actual surprise and a new thing to some people.

 

[Dez]

I used to be a jhs/josh hater, hardcore. He’s converted me into a fan.

I’ll be the odd man out here…

I do believe it’s possible that John Mayer hit a moment in the development cycle with Ndsp where he couldn’t tell the difference between the rigs or could get confused about which was which. Mayer has the kind of money now that ndsp couldn’t possibly buy him off. He’s doing projects that he wants to do, and can walk away from them at any point he isn’t feeling it.

The same has happened to me a few times when doing deep work on A/b’ing digital recreations of my favorite tones.

I haven’t had a chance to read Josh’s essay yet, but I want to when I have the time.

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I agree, he can’t be bought off, and he has no reason to lie about that just to sell a plugin. If anything I think his departure from pop music is a big sign that he just doesn’t care about that shit as much now that he’s made it.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Fwiw, why should anyone actually not prefer a modeled amp over the real deal - even if it's a model of the very same amp? Good is good.