@santellavision's post on his recording equipment thoughts, plus @mathman's remarks on whether amp/effects modelers output a "live" sound - presumably what you should hear right off the speaker cone of a guitar amp - or a "recorded" sound - presumably off the speaker cone of a studio monitor or headphone - have sent me spiraling.
I am shopping for a modeler for use at home. IF (big if) I ever wanted to inflict my musical stylings on an unprepared world, I'd expect I would use it there, too, but that's not the main purpose.
What difference would it make to me, in either case, if it was modeled to be "live" sounding, or "recorded" sounding? And which particular brands/products produce which sounds?
Leaving effects aside for now, I see that some of them allow you to build modeled signal chains that take your guitar input and run it through an amp sim and a cabinet sim on the way out to something that will make the noise. To that point, it should be a "live" sound, to my reading. Some of them allow a further application of a microphone sim, which I suppose would tend toward the "recorded" sound, although by the time I hear something recorded it has been committed to tape or run through A/D, processed through a recording board and later through a mixing board, and committed to the playback medium and pumped through whatever playback system I am using, each element of which presumably has a signal response bandwidth of its own which has the potential to affect the sound that reaches my ears. Hearing AC/DC in my car is not the same as standing next to Malcolm's amp cabinet, got it, but which should I be after in my home? Or does it matter?
I'm lost in the sauce. What I know is that I don't care for the sounds of my 12+ year old Line6 Floor Pod and I hear that the intervening years have produced great strides in modeling quality. I want to divorce the loudness in my subdivision home from the knob settings on the virtual amps in the modeler. I can decide for myself whether I want to commit to this or that proprietary software format for adding new sounds according to the value the developer offers with additional package, the vigor of the user community, etc. I suspect I am like most people in that even if there are several dozen modeled amp choices available in a given system, I will settle down on a couple or three that I like and never touch the others again, so it only matters if a product has those two or three that I can enjoy. Demoing candidates before purchase is another matter, of course, which I why I want to try to figure out what is worth my attention and what isn't.
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@santellavision's post on his recording equipment thoughts, plus @mathman's remarks on whether amp/effects modelers output a "live" sound - presumably what you should hear right off the speaker cone of a guitar amp - or a "recorded" sound - presumably off the speaker cone of a studio monitor or headphone - have sent me spiraling.
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I am shopping for a modeler for use at home. IF (big if) I ever wanted to inflict my musical stylings on an unprepared world, I'd expect I would use it there, too, but that's not the main purpose.
What difference would it make to me, in either case, if it was modeled to be "live" sounding, or "recorded" sounding? And which particular brands/products produce which sounds?
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Leaving effects aside for now, I see that some of them allow you to build modeled signal chains that take your guitar input and run it through an amp sim and a cabinet sim on the way out to something that will make the noise. To that point, it should be a "live" sound, to my reading. Some of them allow a further application of a microphone sim, which I suppose would tend toward the "recorded" sound, although by the time I hear something recorded it has been committed to tape or run through A/D, processed through a recording board and later through a mixing board, and committed to the playback medium and pumped through whatever playback system I am using, each element of which presumably has a signal response bandwidth of its own which has the potential to affect the sound that reaches my ears. Hearing AC/DC in my car is not the same as standing next to Malcolm's amp cabinet, got it, but which should I be after in my home? Or does it matter?
I'm lost in the sauce. What I know is that I don't care for the sounds of my 12+ year old Line6 Floor Pod and I hear that the intervening years have produced great strides in modeling quality. I want to divorce the loudness in my subdivision home from the knob settings on the virtual amps in the modeler. I can decide for myself whether I want to commit to this or that proprietary software format for adding new sounds according to the value the developer offers with additional package, the vigor of the user community, etc. I suspect I am like most people in that even if there are several dozen modeled amp choices available in a given system, I will settle down on a couple or three that I like and never touch the others again, so it only matters if a product has those two or three that I can enjoy. Demoing candidates before purchase is another matter, of course, which I why I want to try to figure out what is worth my attention and what isn't.
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