Gear plans 2026

[romanianreaper]

I've played some very good, very recent modelers. Getting close to the untrained ear, but still no cigar. And that's before discussing feel.

My fundamental toan will always come from tube amps.

Yeah and the tweaking. I don't think it is good to have a ton of amps with tons of options. It is like you save up and get your dream sports car and have a garage filled with other sports cars. You go drive them just to try it and compare. It just creates this cycle.

 

[Uzi Nein Millimetah]

Yeah and the tweaking. I don't think it is good to have a ton of amps with tons of options. It is like you save up and get your dream sports car and have a garage filled with other sports cars. You go drive them just to try it and compare. It just creates this cycle.

It's ultimately not that important to constantly tweak every imaginable parameter, feel like you somehow "can't be happy" until you get the latest firmware update, and especially not to have 800 amp options. Who needs every amp ever made??

I figured out what works for my amps when I first got them and rarely change them. After that it was time to jam/create! That's the reason I play instruments.

I like to experiment a bit with delays and pitch shifting, but that's just the icing on top.

 

[Spaceboy]

I've been stalking modelers for years! Still could never pull the trigger, and I think it's because I don't play shows of any kind. Now that I'm getting slowly back into recording again, I am stalking modellers again. But then I get to thinking, and then some more thinking, then over thinking, eventually I somehow manage to talk myself out of buying one and this toxic cycle repeats ad infinitum!!

I only use modelers for home recording. I hate them for shows. I understand the convenience, but on stage I need real volume and tubes. I also don't want to tweak on the fly by scrolling through parameters and all that bullshit. I'm a caveman, I need to want to twist a knob and use my ears. But at home, modelers are phenomenal and can get inspiring tones and fun sessions of tweaking and testing out ideas that would cost me thousands with the real deal. Being able to test out various routing, stereo rigs, amp and speaker combinations, etc has actually caused me to seek out the real amps through the years. I've also got some of the best recorded tones I've ever had, even with real amps by loading them down and using IRs and processing within the modelers.

 

[Metalhex]

I've also got some of the best recorded tones I've ever had, even with real amps by loading them down and using IRs and processing within the modelers

This is what I hope to start doing someday but I am a noob. I have my amps and cabs/mic downstairs and my recording and computer upstairs. So either I have to crank my amps and run a long cable upstairs to my interface, or I have to capture my amp and use it on a modeler to my PC. As far as recording my amps DI, and using IR's, I've never done either before. I am also the type that I don't want fumble around with interfaces and digital knobs for hours on end. I want to have a good base tone and then do minimal tweaking to make it better. (Wishful thinking for me to be hoping for these things as a noob).

I can crank my amp initially but probably not for hours on end. The alternative would be to crank my amp and capture it, so I can continue the process at a bedroom volume.