I have Guitar Rig 2. I just finished putting together my mobile unit. I call it "The House Plate" imageimage.

The stuff you guys and gals have heard from us (the Neptunes) like "Live at John's House" was Live and unmodeled. Nothing beats a good sounding rig, but sometimes it's just to hard to get control of a beast in a quite nieghborhood. When I 'm working on my own tunes, it's all modeled. I take it to the band to see how it flies. (lot easier on the Old Folk...Ha I'm 55).

My main goal with models is to work with the player and find the tone that best matchs their live tone. Great for rythum and background effects. But frontmen should be in its "native" voice.

One trick with soft modeling like GR2 is to use it as a plugin. The player lays down the track as clean as possible. Then come back and switch from rig to rig in the plugin. The other way I use models is to treat them like a real amp or as an effects pedal board, going through one pc to be recorded by another.

Still, No matter how model it, its still you that's playin' and nothing can model that.

Hap

I use AmpliTube 2 - its the bees knees!
but I would say that wouldn't I , I wrote the surf & vintage presets for it !

(guess whose band is the name of the first preset! mwah hahahahahh'

Paul K

Los Kiosk Bears - the genuine surf sound of cambridge, UK

No sun, no surf, no sand, no babes but great music !!

voodoodentists
Good choice.

Plus I can make the sound of Sebulba's PodRacer with it !!!

Ha ha ha I bet that's fun to do.

Although I prefer to buy single pedals I do recognize it is a lot more expensive and that amp modellers like the GT8 can come in handy sometimes, but the best thing in my opinion is simplicity. Just a ton of reverb, maybe a tremolo or chorus pedal and that's it.

Augusto Vite

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I have a Line 6 Guitar POD 2.0 and a Line 6 Bass POD. My Peavey TransTube 258 EFX (25W combo) is also a modeler, but only so much as there are some effects digitally modeled. Once I start playing around with my new digital recorder, I'll be putting both POD's into it, and experimenting with how to get the best sound on the output side of things. Of course both POD's have effects, the digital recorder has some effects, and I've even got Sony ACID Music (might upgrade to Pro, this year)...whatever it takes, toward achieving that best possible output, really, and working entirely within the digital realm.

Matt

Fast Cars & Loud Guitars!

Well, I have fooled with the Line6 Pocket Pod. I am bored so here is my highly biased mini-review:

I think it does well what it was designed to do. The sounds are pretty good overall. The presets are odd and bad for my kinds of tunes. Some of them are named after songs so it was my excuse to play Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Joe Walsh licks for about an hour based on those presets.

There seems to be one or maybe two "surf" presets. Argh! They are some of the worst sounding guitar tones I have ever heard, never mind the fact that they are really bad for surf. The spring reverb effect is most poor with a nasty artificial sound. If Line6 had a reverb model about as good as the Digitech Digiverb pedal the Pocket Pod would have been been perfect for making demos. Shame they didn't, really; the small size of this gizmo is irresistible.

Because of the size, and the fact that it takes the standard 110VAC/9VDC adapter, it may yet find a home next to my stage tuner. I have one song that requires some pretty decent drive and this would excel at that, at least.

Nutshell: fun toy.

SSIV

I've got a Vox AD30VT. Its probably similiar to the tonelab in tone but its a combo amp.. The blackface model is very good. Effects are good, the reverb is especially good.

The controls are a little confusing though there is one knob and it does different things when you push different buttons. Once you have this system memorized though it's good.

My general rule is that a modeler will get you about 90% there but its that last 10% that makes all the difference.

All greetings! I often write down music in a computer. I could use such processors
DIGITECH RP50 - a bad sound, bad effects, all is bad!
ZOOM G2.1u - the good effects, convenient connection, bad overdrive.
LINE6 POD 2.0 good sound, good effects, good connection … but is not ideal.
As I used computer programs Guitar Rig2 and Amplitude2. They have not impressed me. Separate devices it is better.

All digital devices badly emulate a live sound. Now, for home record, I use combo MarshallAVT20 - one tube in preamp and excellent an output on record. It is very happy, but I think about Fender Princeton Recording Amp.

Fender American Stratocaster -> MarshallAVT50
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Confession:

I used to own the modeler that the Surf Coasters used...

I picked up a Vox Tonelab a few months back and I'm pretty happy with it. The built-in spring reverb simulation is bad, but I just run my re-issue tank in front of it and it sounds pretty good.

ROCKMAN XP100a. Nope, not the Sony Walkman thing w/earphones, but the Amplifier which you can run her as a 100 watt, 50 watt, or just Headphones.
You can run it line out (Mono or Stereo), or use the (2) 6" Pyle Driver speakers, OR hook up 1 or 2 cabinets (mono or stereo) with your choice of 1X12, 2X12, or 4X12 Cabs......Well, what did you expect from some designer with an MIT Degree??? LOL!! Anywho, it is FULLY programmable, with Compression, clean to FULL BLOWN Overdrive/Distortion, Stereo Chorus, Reverb, or Delay, 3 band Pre EQ as well as 5 band Post EQ.
Don't let all that garbage mentioned above scare you, anyone that has played, used, or owned one, really liked it. Alot of people assumed, "Well, all you are gonna get is the BOSTON Sound.".....WRONG. If you know how to use pre and post EQ, you can color or shape the tone of your guitar any which way you want, even a Nickel Ninety Eight Wal-Mart guitar will sound great. OK, no offense to Wal-Mart (LOL), but again, anyone who had the opportunity to play one, liked it. To make a short story longer, this was probably one of the very first so-called "Modeling" Amps w/o that title back in the late 80's. Back then, MIDI was the new thing, and yes, it is MIDI Controlled as well. I own 2 of these, and on E-Bay, they have Sky-Rocketed in price, and are now out of control price wise, providing you find one on E-Bay.

.......make the Mos' of it,
.....choose the 'rite stuff!
.........owner of 9 Mosrites
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1963 "The Ventures" Model s/n# 0038
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