
Chubtone
Well-known member
I believe you need the $79 EVH pack and then you need to spend $100 for Tonex Max which is the software. I purchased just the Van Halen pack and could open it and play it, but every 10 seconds you get the loud static sound that some companies do when you are trying out a demo of their product. Spoke to a friend who had also bought the EVH pack and he said I needed to buy Tonex Max to really be able to use the product.
My user report on this so far is that if you are using PAF level pickups like the guy who designed the EVH Pack designed it with, (I use the Duncan '78) you really, really, really have to work to play lead on it. I am talking slap you in the face if you don't nail what you were trying to play. No tube amp compression/lotta gain to help you out. The guys in those first two videos are using hotter pickups so that helps with soloing but then takes the rhythm guitar farther from what Gaustad intended accuracy wise. I have played it with my Duncan Custom guitar and better for soloing and not as cool for rhythms.
Take the first guys video. Great playing but tons of gain and the low end distortion character is kind of like an overpowered input and jagged sounding. I do enjoy playing through this and am still messing with it. I'm findng, just like every other digital thing I have tried, that I have trouble getting it to sit right in a mix. When it's at the "correct" volume in a mix you just can't hear it clearly and when you try and turn it up to where it sits right, it overpowers everything else.
Of course I want to just get something like this and have it be everything I want it to be and sell all my tube amps, but I am keeping my 3 main amps and hoping someday I have no need for them. This may all be user error though. It's just my findings so far.
My user report on this so far is that if you are using PAF level pickups like the guy who designed the EVH Pack designed it with, (I use the Duncan '78) you really, really, really have to work to play lead on it. I am talking slap you in the face if you don't nail what you were trying to play. No tube amp compression/lotta gain to help you out. The guys in those first two videos are using hotter pickups so that helps with soloing but then takes the rhythm guitar farther from what Gaustad intended accuracy wise. I have played it with my Duncan Custom guitar and better for soloing and not as cool for rhythms.
Take the first guys video. Great playing but tons of gain and the low end distortion character is kind of like an overpowered input and jagged sounding. I do enjoy playing through this and am still messing with it. I'm findng, just like every other digital thing I have tried, that I have trouble getting it to sit right in a mix. When it's at the "correct" volume in a mix you just can't hear it clearly and when you try and turn it up to where it sits right, it overpowers everything else.
Of course I want to just get something like this and have it be everything I want it to be and sell all my tube amps, but I am keeping my 3 main amps and hoping someday I have no need for them. This may all be user error though. It's just my findings so far.