What have you learned from digital modeling?

[norminal]

What have you learned from digital modeling?

IMO:

1. That the majority of people listening to your music could probably give two shits what brand of modeler you use or whether or not it performed 0.01% better than the other in a “null test.”

2. Most people, including experienced gear heads, probably couldn’t pick out the difference between a POD and an Axe-FX III in a full mix.

3. None of them give you an identical experience of playing through a 100W head with a monster power transformer, dimed through a pair of 4x12 cabinets. LOL at your Class-D pedal amp.

4. I spend way more time “dialing in my tone” than I did with amps and pedals.

5. My level playing will never justify the capabilities of the modelers I own.

6. Tone is in the fingers.

 

[zematynnad]

I've learned to find my sound and stay consistent with it as opposed to always chasing other possibilities. Once you settle on the amp (dual amps in my case) that you love and the essential effects you need then you can just focus on continuing to improve your playing and performance. Consistency may not be as exciting as chasing endless tonal possibilities but it is its own reward.

 

[gy1900s]

I learned that digital amps in general are easier to gig and record with, and they sound just as good with 90% of the stuff that I play. It's those other 10% of tones that I can't seem to achieve that brought me back to valve amps.

There's some tones that are so spot on, that I can't tell the difference unless I'm playing the amp, and even then it's hard. I'm not 100% certain that I coud tell if I was plugged into a real Princeton reverb or a tonemaster Princeton reverb.

 

[iaresee]

What have you learned from digital modeling?​

It doesn't matter what I play through, how the firmware changes, how the hardware advances. What I need, more than anything else, every single time, without fail, is to just practice more.

 

[Cactusprick]

ive learnt to cope with all cork sniffers who would tell me tube amps are always better (my bandmate being one. our relationship went south as soon as i veered into the dark side lol). I just let them be.

Modelers helped me vastly showcasing so many different amp voices without actually buying real amps & to solidify my preferences in tone making.

P.S. I love both tube amps and modelers. whatever floats your boat. Just be open minded and embrace them all.

 

[norminal]

our relationship went south as soon as i veered into the dark side lol). I just let them be.

So your relationship with your bandmate went bad after you switched to modeling? What, is he 5 years old?

 

[Cactusprick]

So your relationship with your bandmate went bad after you switched to modeling? What, is he 5 years old?

not far off in terms of maturity, no lol

 

[HomespunEffects]

My main rig from 1995 or 1996 until 2015 was a Roland GP-100 into a Carver GA250 into a Peavey stereo 4x12 with Sheffields.

What I learned is that no matter how many options I have, I only make 2 patches and never change them.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I learned that I hate a Miguel'ed cab sound.

Also Badonk goes brrr

 

[norminal]

Miguel'ed cab sound

 

[Alex Kenivel]

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Mic = Mike = Michael =Miguel

Inside joke, srry

 

[timbuck3]

Newer isn’t always better in certain aspects

 

[Enchilada Jones]

I learned I need to give up thinking it is the replacement for traditional guitar amplifiers.
In a multi effect/all in one format they are a very convenient solution that serves me better than a traditional amplifier rig could in many situations.
If I limit use to those roles then I don’t waste time and money tilting at windmills.

 

[Stone]

Here is what I learned, there is no other platform on earth that can get me what I want to do
Sure I could go the non modeling route but that would probably put me out 50 to 70K or more, without Modeling I could not achieve what I want to do, In my Fracatlverse i have at a click of a mouse and swipe of my foot a fully loaded Studio
So thats what i learned

 

[Whizzinby]

Digitals ability to let you demo the history of tones lead me to the realization that 90% of the amps and pedals that now matter (to me) were released before or very shortly after I started playing to begin with and that the gear game was largely already solved multiple decades ago.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Digitals ability to let you demo the history of tones lead me to the realization that 90% of the amps and pedals that now matter (to me) were released before or very shortly after I started playing to begin with and that the gear game was largely already solved multiple decades ago.

Yeah...now it's just cheaper and easier to get to that realization. Also....how easy and simple it is to sound amazing!!!!

 

[FuzzyAce]

Digitals ability to let you demo the history of tones lead me to the realization that 90% of the amps and pedals that now matter (to me) were released before or very shortly after I started playing to begin with and that the gear game was largely already solved multiple decades ago.

Painful, isn't it.

 

[la szum]

I learned it is the same as it ever was: Nearly 99.9% of the time is is NEVER the gear.

 

[paisleywookiee]

I learned that I dislike most people.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I learned it is the same as it ever was: Nearly 99.9% of the time is is NEVER the gear.

But toan is in that .1%!