Yep, I've even considered making some kind of weird synth, experimentation only board/creation station and use these little modelers like the Opus and Pod express for that purpose only. Throw in a mixing board and some other odd pedals I have laying around for additional weirdness. Could be cool, and more purpose driven. I really feel like the guitar stuff is already covered between the HX, VP4 and real amps.
I have their DI400P for a bog standard DI. If you've been following, I wanted one with onboard IR loading
The Cab M+ even comes with a Genome license!
I’m hoping (wishing?) NAM support would find its way to the Opus (even if only standard captures only), as a way to integrate with Genome.
I have NAM, NAM-U, and now Genome. The Genome capture loader (CODEX) has some really cool options.
I love the MRSH M20 and MRSH 412 M25. Sweet sounding is the best way I know how to describe them. Very musical to me.
That looks super nice!
That’s pretty close to the price of an HX Stomp.
Yeah! So you can see how I thought long and hard about this. I'm so glad I got this used. For about $150 I could have gotten a used Cab M+ for an Amp DI with IR loading and would have been all set on that front. Less than $50 more got me their TSM preamps in the Opus.That’s pretty close to the price of an HX Stomp.
I assume you know what the King of Tone is? This King of Drive is apparently a clone of it, and a cheap one too -- not too sure how close of a clone it is exactly. So it "do" what the other does if we were to believe that.
I ordered this some time last week and it came in this morning while I was on my way out so I had to wait until this afternoon to check it out. It shipped used from GC, OG box in a shipping box. No feet, no manual, just a French startup slip and velcro on the bottom with hair stuck to it (calling @la szum).
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#1 reason to buy this was for amp DI + IR loading.
#2 reason was for the Pre/power models, which was easier to do so I did that first.
I plugged in the laptop-style adapter (boo) and the Opus booted up, and was in a preset with the Vox-inspired model, single ended somethings and a Marshall cab with V30s.. Sounded okay, and after a few tweaks to the power section and tonestack I was getting something close to what I like out of my coveted HX Essex A30, but no squish.
Loaded in the IR of my 2x12 Greenback cab and a smattering of York mixes, played with the Flatback V and Albion. Seemed like caricatures of the amps more than amp models. Still useful coupled with the poweramp options. I want to go back and give it more time, play through the Foundry, maybe save some actual presets.
After some light dicking around with the Preamps I got my shit in order and hooked it all up to my amp, but decided to put my speaker cab in the bathroom since I don't have an attenuator or load box, but what I do have is an absurdly long speaker cable.
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This is where the fun time was hiding! My amp + my IR = there it was! I just sat and played for as long as the bathroom had nobody in it. Didn't last too long.
I'll get more time later.
I don't have any straight-up analog Preamps, just amp heads and modelers. I've played with the power amp simulation in Genome (which I'm sure are using the same algos in Opus) and it's pretty good AFAICT.
Thanks, that might be an option! Sound like a trial of Genome is the way to go.
