Vox nostalgia

ragingplatypi said:


@timbuck3 - I didn’t know you were actually Danish Pete!
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Foxmeister said:
Trouble is, he didn't A/B anything - the Tonelab he's got sounds great, but the question the thumbnail asks is "did we have better sounds in 2011?", yet there was no comparison to a 2026 sound.
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Modeling guitar is ruined because of everyone A/B testing the absolute crap out of anything and then there's people listening to the comparisons on their iphone speakers like "yeah yeah, this sounds so bad compared to this, yuck :wat" - change my mind.
 
I loved my old Tonelab SE. But I really didn't like how it sounded direct with cabinet modeling on so I would run it into the effects return of a tube amp. I would then use a Palmer PDI-03 to get a good direct sound from the amp.

I even tried running the Tonelab direct into the old EPSi pedal, which was one of the first hardware IR loaders on the market. It just introduced too much noise to be usable.

The first time I got a direct sound I was truly happy with was when I started using the first Atomic Amplifire.

So yes, while the multi effects pedals of old (which you might remember we were calling them before we started calling them "modelers") were perfectly fine and serviceable, I still feel a lot of progress was made when cabinet modeling started to be based on impulse reflections.
 
I remember there were great sounds, and there were bad sounds in these, and if you thought they sounded great or terrible depended largely on what kind of tones you were going for.

The biggest problem with older modelers wasn’t the sounds, it was the limited control options in a live setting. It was a major PITA to program for a gig.

Two memories about the old Vox ToneLabs:

For a short time I was playing country gigs with a Tonelab SE into an Epiphone Blues Custom 30 and I thought it was great.

I once saw a Beatles tribute band play Red Rocks and they had big Vox piggyback amps on stage. I got up close to take a look and saw every one of them had a Tonelab sitting on the ground behind the amps.

The onstage amps were just shells for decoration, they were all running direct from the ToneLabs
 
metropolis_4 said:
I remember there were great sounds, and there were bad sounds in these, and if you thought they sounded great or terrible depended largely on what kind of tones you were going for.

The biggest problem with older modelers wasn’t the sounds, it was the limited control options in a live setting. It was a major PITA to program for a gig.

Two memories about the old Vox ToneLabs:

For a short time I was playing country gigs with a Tonelab SE into an Epiphone Blues Custom 30 and I thought it was great.

I once saw a Beatles tribute band play Red Rocks and they had big Vox piggyback amps on stage. I got up close to take a look and saw every one of them had a Tonelab sitting on the ground behind the amps.

The onstage amps were just shells for decoration, they were all running direct from the ToneLabs
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Foxmeister said:
Trouble is, he didn't A/B anything - the Tonelab he's got sounds great, but the question the thumbnail asks is "did we have better sounds in 2011?", yet there was no comparison to a 2026 sound.
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That's because most of us humans know how things sound right now. WOW this can't be real.
 
I had a blue Tonelab desktop. Wish I had never sold it. I replaced the 12AX7 with a 12AU7 and loved it. One of the best modellers ever made, even with today's options. I would 100% buy one if they released them again.
 
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