The Digital Doubt

[Boudoir Guitar]

On the OG idea of doubt -- this popped up in my Facebook feed this morning (I got rid of my ~700 records years ago because what.a.pain.in.the.ass):

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I feel like folks can get that way with a lot of guitar gear, not just digital. I was watching an old That Pedal Show with Greg Koch on it. He was talking about the Wildwood 10 guitars and how surprised he was at how quickly they flew off the shelves and you could tell from the way he talked about them his thoughts were "great guitars, but I ain't spending that kinda money on most of them". Somehow the spec sheet, or the curation of Wildwood, or whatever, got them selling $4k custom shop Strats at a much higher rate than before, mostly through online orders. I guess people didn't trust going into a shop and playing guitars, but once a guitar was curated, or had a spec sheet they thought they might like, they were perfectly happy spending $4k on them without ever playing one? Its this weird combo of not trusting their own senses, but somehow WILDLY overtrusting a spec sheet and/or curator.

 

[Sascha Franck]

It’s about if a photocopy of an amp is as good as a Rembrandt.

Record. Broken. Repeat.

 

[jay mitchell]

It’s about if a photocopy of an amp is as good as a Rembrandt.

No. That idiot analogy was worn out 20 years ago.

 

[the swede]

No doubts since yesterday... whats wrong with you people... post some shit....

 

[mercifulfuzziness]

No doubts since yesterday... whats wrong with you people... post some shit....

Sure. My brain is running in circles. I am a little bit back at "i should just get a small tube amp" with a bit of "okay.. but now" added to it.

 

[the swede]

Sure. My brain is running in circles. I am a little bit back at "i should just get a small tube amp" with a bit of "okay.. but now" added to it.

You qualified the "doubt test"

 

[PLX]

Can anyone please tell me what this thread is about?

Something called "Digital Gout".

Sounds nasty.

 

[EOengineer]

Something called "Digital Gout".

Sounds nasty.

"Does this Helix have pork in it?"

 

[Jarick]

I have my digital and analog rigs hooked up side by side. Running a chain of pedals into an Orange Rocker 15 tube amp and then on the other it's a Quad Cortex running into a Fender FR-12.

The tube amp is fussy to dial in and I wouldn't call it versatile, but when it's sounding pretty decent it takes pedals really well and the sounds all kind of melt together and build on each other. The QC can sound really close through the FR speaker, but it's a lot more work to get in the ballpark.

Honestly it does sound like in this case one is getting close to sounding like the real thing and the other is the real thing. Like 90% vs 100%.

Now if I switch to a high gain sound, the QC will sound like 90% again and the tube amp will sound like 20% but it's not that sound at all. So there's something to be said for versatility.

 

[Jarick]

Actually I think what would be a fun next test would be to run a modeler into both the FR-12 with an IR on one side and a flat power amp and cab on the other. Maybe I've done that before? Anyways I have a 1x12 Orange impulse pack from Celestion which sounds pretty good so it would be interesting to hear if it's the amp or the cab.

I could also do the flip side, run the Orange amp into a load box and then out into either cab. Maybe I'll play around with that over the next couple days...