Would you like to play a game...Clip comparison as I am figuring out my new recording rig

[gybe!]

Got new toys for amp switching (can now have 8 heads into 8 cabs with fx loops!) and recording (new PC, new interface, new software, new monitors), so am now playing about with all of it. Threw something very quick together to start to learn all the new to me stuff: SD3, Studio One Pro, and Reamping/routing with the new system. So the caveat for below; this is more about starting to figure all this out and play around than stellar composition/guitar playing.
Here we have two tracks. Same guitar performance for each, simple double track being reamped (dry guitar all handled through spdif in/out on the axeFx3). Each track will have a change at the half way point (~15s in). In one case the guitar switches from one cabinet to another (same head, different speaker type but same mic, no change in amp settings), in another it switches from one amp to another (same cabinet and mic position). Can you tell which is which?

Playing is not terribly interesting or great and the drums need work (my first attempt with SD3). Other than a low pass filter and some light limiting on the master bus for levels, no post processing going on. While I am not really trying to have a finished product here, if anything sounds way off do let me know as I don`t know/understand these monitors at all yet.

 

[TheGreatGreen]

My guess:

Spoiler

VariationTwo is the cab switch. The change is more drastic in this clip, and changing cabs makes a much more pronounced difference than changing heads in otherwise identical high gain rigs.

Congrats on the new recording rig, btw! Recording rigs are like instruments themselves. It's a ton of fun getting into it and figuring everything out.

 

[311boogieman]

I honestly can't figure this out but just a note, the change seems to occur at 13 seconds and in both cases, the volume is slightly lower on the second half

Love these threads regardless and HNTD

 

[Anje]

Cool rig!
I hear a much more important change in the 2nd clip => that would make me think of a cab change, rather than an amp change (of course it's very broad guess as it could greatly depend on what are the precise different cabs & amps in each case).
In that case, I would even take the risk to bet that the 1st cab in the 2 clip is the same cab that was used for both amps in the 1st clip.