an ipod, a fairly affordable digital device, playing a digital VH track, plugged into a pair of small powered studio monitors, can reproduce eddie's old VH sound perfectly
shouldn't a 2.2k box plugged into the same monitors reproduce the sound precisely, with virtually limitless control, regardless of guitar woods or pickups?
i remember the ads prior to the line 6 axsys launch in 96 promising it would model the entire rig perfectly. i requested the literature, bought the POD 1.0, full of hopes and dreams, and well, here we are.....a yamaha dg80, boss gx-700, vox valvetronix, behringer v-amp, fender superchamp xd, and axe ultra later.
the vox and the fender with the tube/model hybrid won out on the feel factor above the rest, but the ultra was far and away the fx everest.
early amp model clips of the II show promise. sounds like a layer of wax/plastic has been removed from the tone.
i still wish fractal could provide a section of amps dialed in by the amp makers, one clean patch, one dirty patch, and even cooler all the effects the ampmaker would personally add to those patches on alternative presets (clean dry/clean wet/dirty dry/dirty wet) from the minds of friedman, carol ann, suhr, egnater, cameron, and some artist presets, and that italo cat!