Rank your personal favorite brand of modeler.

[Iron1]

Line 6
Fractal
Boss
Fender

 

[GTR37]

Wrong. I am very much so. And to prove it, I voted for Nux.

It wasn’t even on the list

 

[iaresee]

I've only played Fractal when it comes to current generation modelers, so Fractal it is.

 

[metropolis_4]

I voted Boss because I felt bad it didn’t have any votes

 

[TubeStack]

For me, it's:

best-sounding digital anything: Quad Cortex capture of my own amp, much preferred over any Fractal/Helix model

amp modelling: Fractal, with Helix very close (maybe equal, still exploring it recently)

effects: Helix and Fractal tied, with plus to Helix for usability/pedal-like approach, for me

form factor: Helix Floor

UI: Helix Floor

best company/customer support: L6 and Fractal tied in being way beyond all others

 

[Sascha Franck]

Where's BluGuitar?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Oh, and no Zoom.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Kinda using the term a bit loosely, IMO. If that’s a modeler, so is the Mesa Mark VII.

Well, Blug is pretty much calling it that himself. Something like "analog modeling" or so (fwiw, personally, I'd agree with you).

 

[eggpl@nt]

At the risk of sending this thread into a total Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown .... the [limited] FW 24 vs Cygnus X3 audio clip comparisons I've heard so far ... combined with Fractals own detailed descriptions of the expected audio changes users will hear and encounter with Cygnus X3 ...... very much seems to me to be taking the Fractal Modelling into the realm of the warts-and-all Helix Modelling which used to be so mocked and crucified as being "too rough / raw / ugly / hard to tame / not accurate" .... you know ... just like a real Amp

Just a thought ..... b.t.w ..... I don't own either a L6 or Fractal unit.

Ben

Hard to say. According to Cliff, warts-and-all accuracy has been the focus since at least 2019. Yes, some poetic license was taken with the tapers of some controls and with the Friedman BE models (per comments here on TGF), and that's where it gets hard to say how many warts were covered up and how many were allowed to truly flourish.

Aside from the FAS amps, I don't know that I believe that Cliff ever wanted to hide a bunch of warts, so the shift in the conversation to "now FAS has real warts" seems really weird to me and more like users are simply parroting one another or using "warts" as some blanket term.

 

[jellodog]

... so the shift in the conversation to "now FAS has real warts" seems really weird to me and more like users are simply parroting one another or using "warts" as some blanket term.

QC comes with a wall wart.

So real.

 

[Stone]

FM Stone is the best Modeler, bar none !

 

[KingsXJJ]

I don’t know what that is. I have a TONEX though.

I hope you are enjoying your Tone X!

 

[KingsXJJ]

Dude, he said ToanEXE.

My mistake! Thanks PW!

 

[KingsXJJ]

Dude, he said ToanEXE.

Tone-FX it is!

 

[SKU]

Tone-FX it is!

Tone eXpress. Similar to the pod express but it’s made out of metal and it’s not a toy.

 

[Jynx]

I've only had a QC and a Pod Go. The QC is way better.

Anyway, it should be NDSP in the poll as they are the brand. And that's who I vote for.

Unless we're talking fx, then the Line 6 Pod Go was better. But Neural's amps sound far more realistic to me than Line 6's. And they matter most to me.

 

[fuyume]

I don't really see the point of this, as the vast majority of people won't have had the opportunity to own more than one of these units and/or have had enough experience with actually using them that they could really offer anything that might be considered an informed, objective opinion.

I have a Boss GT-1000Core, and I like it. Are other units "better"? Maybe, but I haven't got $10K USD to buy 4-6 different units, sit with them for a few weeks to see how well they fit my needs, and discover their limitations.

I sat with my Core this past week to see if I would be happy going all digital with it, and I realized that, sonically and logistically, I'd be happy with have two Cores on my board for the price of $1200 USD. Is there any other modelling-capable unit on the market for $1200 USD that could come anywhere near giving me what I can get out of two Cores?

 

[JiveTurkey]

Tonex sucks. Clock radio display turd.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Tone eXpress. Similar to the pod express but it’s made out of metal and it’s not a toy.

Hardly a toy. Any enclosure can be susceptible to damage, especially if dropped or abused -- but most likely something internally shocked from jarring (and there could be an argument made that a plastic shell is better in that case).

 

[SKU]

GT1000 is pretty cool though. Had it once in parallel with the Amplifire and the Kemper Stage. Lowest latency, the snapiest tone. Don't know why I ever sold it... I ended up selling the Stage afterwards and the AA6. From time to time I get the urge to get a Core. I like BOSS for being old school. Also had the Helix, not impressed although Native can sound good but it just doesn't feel right.