Sascha Franck
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Fwiw, re: What sound for recordings?
Personally, I'd like to use *my* sound for recordings. So, what is *my* sound? For me, it's a sound that a) works, b) I'm familiar with and c) is fun to play with. Modeling checks all these boxes in my case. Now, if I had an option to record in some environment offering real amps, cabs, mics and what not, (a) and (c) would possibly still be true, but (b) wouldn't. So I'd play with a sound I'm not familiar with. No good. Let alone (c) would at least partially be affected as well.
In fact, I've already been there back in the analog amp days. Our band had quite a decent record deal (in fact a major deal with plenty of cash involved - turned out to be a flop in the end, but still...), so we could afford recording in a big ass studio and borrow tons of things, quite some amps, guitars, cabs, pedals and what not as well. And well, there's been some killer amps, such as two VH4s, one modified by Mr. Diezel himself, Bogners, quite some Marshalls, Fenders and Voxes, you name it. Same with guitars. And pedals.
In the end, I tried to use pretty much everything - and in 95% of all cases, I returned to my own core setup (mainly a Soldano SP-77 running into a Marshall 6100 return plus some pedals) and my own guitars. And in all these cases I've got the thumbs up from my bandmates and the producer as well.
For me, it's every bit the same with modeling, really. Why would I use anything else just because I was recording when I'm using modeling pretty much exclusively for 6 years already?
Personally, I'd like to use *my* sound for recordings. So, what is *my* sound? For me, it's a sound that a) works, b) I'm familiar with and c) is fun to play with. Modeling checks all these boxes in my case. Now, if I had an option to record in some environment offering real amps, cabs, mics and what not, (a) and (c) would possibly still be true, but (b) wouldn't. So I'd play with a sound I'm not familiar with. No good. Let alone (c) would at least partially be affected as well.
In fact, I've already been there back in the analog amp days. Our band had quite a decent record deal (in fact a major deal with plenty of cash involved - turned out to be a flop in the end, but still...), so we could afford recording in a big ass studio and borrow tons of things, quite some amps, guitars, cabs, pedals and what not as well. And well, there's been some killer amps, such as two VH4s, one modified by Mr. Diezel himself, Bogners, quite some Marshalls, Fenders and Voxes, you name it. Same with guitars. And pedals.
In the end, I tried to use pretty much everything - and in 95% of all cases, I returned to my own core setup (mainly a Soldano SP-77 running into a Marshall 6100 return plus some pedals) and my own guitars. And in all these cases I've got the thumbs up from my bandmates and the producer as well.
For me, it's every bit the same with modeling, really. Why would I use anything else just because I was recording when I'm using modeling pretty much exclusively for 6 years already?
But what I've learned about modelers (and I own far too many) is that they all have their own core sound(s) be it in their gates, EQs, comps, boosts, amp models, verbs, delays, modulations etc. I wont mention cabs because of IRs and the afore mentioned IRs effect on each core sound is worthy of it's own thread. In a perfect world, we could select the core sound from of all the elements I previously mentioned that we like from each individual modeler and build our own dream modeler.
