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[fritzman]

Yeah Sascha!

Same from me. This sounds great. It's always what somebody does with it. The tones do fit great into this music. What guitar did you use for that? Sounds really good ...
Nice tune, man. Like that stuff. Reminds me of the time when I listened to Eric Johnson, Jeff Beck and all these guys. Cool.


Best wishes, FRitz

P.S. And it was what? Which amp sim?

[A3ntar]

I like the direction this thread has taken ( besided the last few pages where Hink felt attacked and he had to defend himself ). For me that is the essens of a messagboard, people discussing topics that they feel is related somehow to the thread's subject and most important, stuff that answer/add previous posts in the thread.

What I noticed though through most of KvR, and that is the sad part, is that somehow ( maybe dur to the large number of members ) you always have to be on the lookup because you end up often time with posts that disagree with you and put you down, even though you're just stating your opinion. For example, lately I asked people to comment on the sound of a mp3 file I produced. It was me playing the lead guitar on Santana's Smooth sing. Well, some of the people instead of giving their opinions on my technic, sound, mix, etc... started critisizing the song I was playing! "Why didn't you play your own song" they said. I felt sorry that I even had to defend myself, because obviously, the song choice wasn't even an issue. But I still did had to defend myself and my song selection.

[Sascha Franck]

Excellent Sascha! Too bad you live so far away. It would be a blast to jam with you. This is V-Amp, right?

Thanks Gordon.
No, it's not the VAmp. That would've sounded even better (I could try redoing it tomorrow, for comparison...). Left the VAmp in the theatre overnight.
It's indeed a POD 1, that I usually don't use anymore at all, never updated the eprom either.

Same from me. This sounds great. It's always what somebody does with it. The tones do fit great into this music. What guitar did you use for that? Sounds really good ...

Thanks Fritz, I've been using my Anderson. Actually, the riff sounds would've sounded better with something else, but I wanted to use one single guitar and (more or less) one single amp sound. That's what I'm usually doing for live playing as well... most often I may just switch on a boost or a delay, the rest is done by the volume pot, pickup selection and playing dynamics.

Oh fwiw, I'm usually running the guitar into a Whammy 2 at first, does a great job in buffering the signal, saves me a DI box and makes any amp react more sensible for whatever reasons. And it's not altering the tone all that drastically either.

[AndrewSimon]

FWIW, I'm rather surprised that IK has't implemented their all so new and shiny dynamic response thingy into Amplitude yet.
For me that's what it's all about.
Here's a 5 minute mockup:
http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/temp/SF_AmpResponse.mp3
Been using 1 single sound for all the rhythm guitars. So, the almost clean one is just the same amp sound as the more heavy things. Those are doubled (just the common procedure)

Cool!
So this is POD1 ehh , I'm impressed.
It just shows you that the first thing in the signal chain (the guitar player) is the most important one.

You inspired me.
I will go now and pull out my Vamp2 and hook it up to the computer for the first time. (I was just using it for practice with headphones when everybody in the house sleeps)

[AndrewSimon]

Hink, I listened to your songs.
The guitar sound is very good but it's not something that makes me go WOW.
The Rocktron demo did.
I just like the cleaner HiFi type sounds.
When I was a teenager I used to play on a Fender twin reverb head hooked up to two PA speakers.
I think it just stuck with me.

[Sascha Franck]

I will go now and pull out my Vamp2 and hook it up to the computer for the first time. (I was just using it for practice with headphones when everybody in the house sleeps)

Yeah, try it out. Careful with the bass, that's where it lacks clarity, plus there's too much of it. I often end up with bass settings close to 0.
In any other aspect it's way better than the POD 1 IMO. Ok, there's one sorta vox-ish sound on the POD that I can't get out of the VAmp, but that's about it.

[Hink]

Hink, I listened to your songs.
The guitar sound is very good but it's not something that makes me go WOW.
The Rocktron demo did.
I just like the cleaner HiFi type sounds.
When I was a teenager I used to play on a Fender twin reverb head hooked up to two PA speakers.
I think it just stuck with me.

well technically it shouldn't make you go wow, if it does that's cool...fortunately I can work with many sounds as you see all three are quite different. But like I said about your sound...it's not my thing...same thing...there's nothing wrong with that...I just took exception (and it's happened b4 from someone else) that I'm some sort of purist (that's what bugged me when you said I'll never like sims)...I use EMGs, that alone kicks me out of the purists league...

Like what you grew up with, I was influenced a different way, my first amp I built and I spent many years chasing a sound that I finally got with a modded plexi...tbh I like my sound very simple...I dont use pedals...I just play guitar (and apparently not good because my phrasing is all wrong)..and have fun...I do though as I said before, put a lot of work into my guitars.

fwiw sleeping giant-sansamp...in fact I used 5 tracks on that total. The Whisper-POD and the little piece was POD...ironically all three played on my hardtail warnoth strat (I guess cause I play that the most)...

[Midiworks]

No, it's not the VAmp. That would've sounded even better (I could try redoing it tomorrow, for comparison...).

I would like to hear that !

[Beardedone]

Cool!
So this is POD1 ehh , I'm impressed.
It just shows you that the first thing in the signal chain (the guitar player) is the most important one.

You inspired me.
I will go now and pull out my Vamp2 and hook it up to the computer for the first time. (I was just using it for practice with headphones when everybody in the house sleeps)

The player is a major factor!

[AndrewSimon]

Check out this guy:
http://www.tonemerchants.com/pops/guthr ... _2_pop.htm

Many more here:
http://www.tonemerchants.com/Guthrie_Go ... _Clips.htm

[Sascha Franck]

Check out this guy:
http://www.tonemerchants.com/pops/guthr ... _2_pop.htm

Many more here:
http://www.tonemerchants.com/Guthrie_Go ... _Clips.htm

Interesting player.
But even more interesting how it allways seems to be that those fast (and excellent at that, I won't argue here) players can't play any funky guitars at all. Just watch clip #6 and you'll see some funky strumming that I'll fire a player for. Predictable rhythms, not funky at all, plus done with a lousy tone. In a nutshell: Not a hint of an idea of what funk is all about.
As soon as he starts soloing it's all back to normal...

It's like that with a lot of wellknown players.

[SJ_Digriz]

I want to know what a "Modern Classic Jazz" tune is? Sounds contradictory to me.

[AndrewSimon]

I was reading user comments about the Rocktron Prophecy and there were several users who said they upgraded to this thing:



It has 6 tubes

They don't even call it an Amp-Sim, they call it a very low output amp..... it's marketing but there is some truth to it.

more info:
http://www.vhtamp.com/product-news/valvulator-gp3.html
and
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=l ... id/182070/

OK it's a long shot but did anybody out there ever heard one of these babies?....

[Sascha Franck]

I have once played a VHT Pitbull on a session, and believe me, even the thoughts are making my mouth all wet, so probably this preamp is quite something.

[fritzman]

I want to know what a "Modern Classic Jazz" tune is? Sounds contradictory to me.

Hehe,

there's quite some marketing blurb going on there ...
And the tone he had on the first one I tried was really hm not so eh good.


Best wishes, FRitz