I thought the HX Effects was great when I had one. One of my favorite features was the ability to adjust parameters with my feet, without taking my hands off the guitar. Overall I thought the FX in it were awesome. I had sold my HXFX to switch to the stomp to get access to amp modeling and get a...
Sounds pretty solid! I think the core sound is pretty much there — but I think there’s a bit too much reverb happening maybe (kind of personal taste though)
Overall great job!
I definitely think there’s something to that. There is ‘tone’ in the fingers in the sense that what your fingers do has a direct effect on what the signal sounds like going through everything in the chain, but my fingers aren’t going to do what pedals and amps are doing to process that signal.
I personally wonder if it also has anything to do with more people buying and selling equipment to flip it for profit, but I’m definitely not any expert.
I don’t have an ASAT, but I’ve got a Legacy (strat), a JB5 (Jazz Bass), and a L-2500 (also a bass) — all current-ish production USA
I don’t think you can really do any better for a US fender-style guitar for the money that you can get them for on the used market!
I’ve been gigging with my QC for over a year now and it’s been great! The inbuilt models can be hit or miss, but I’ve found most of the stuff I need between factory and cloud captures.
I feel like I’d prefer to have more amps than cabs vs the other way around.
So unless that Marshall cab has some special meaning to you I think I’d go amp