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I use a Fractal Ax FX2...Love it..ditched my Orange (kept the cab) and ditched my Egnator...
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The only thing with Mustangs and such, is the array of choices. There can be just too much to tweak, and you really need to be handy a dialling in amps to get what you want. I spend too much time fiddling with mine. So there's still something to be said for a simple amp and a pedal or two. |
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Have to say modeling stuff has come a long way since I bought my Pandora. Still happy with my 5E3 though.
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I have a Line 6 M5. Was surprised at the quality of the modeled effects especially the Wah that I bought it for. Very rarely use it though, since I lost the power adapter.
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At church we use a Line 6 POD XT Live floorboard for electric guitar and the bass version for the electric bass.
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I've got a Mustang 2 in my music room and I like it. I spend most of my time on the Twin Reverb with a few tweaks to get my desired tone and that's now a preset. I do spend some time experimenting with different sounds when I'm in the mood. On the other hand I have a little Bugera Vintage 5 in the kitchen corner and it sure is nice to just plug in and play without the computer and all. I guess I just like both
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Hey Dru, I've used and still own a cheaper Rocktron modeling amp. A few years ago, a friend came over to play some bass in our gospel group (this friend was all Fender guitars bass/strats and amplifiers). We were goofing off before actually practicing. I had my T5 plugged in the Rocktron and it dialed in to Fender. Without telling him or anyone else how I had set it, when we finished he said he could not believe how the T5 and amp sounded just like a Strat. Of course it was not identical, but it was close. I now have the Princeton Reverb tube and I love playing it and have not used the Rocktron for a long time. It might be time to break it out again and run the two amps with my ABY box just to see what I can do.
Catdaddy *** In regards to your post with the links, I really enjoyed them. I really did not know which amp was which, but I thought A was a little more aggressive/responsive in the sound and maybe a slight increase in gain (to my ears). In any environment playing either of these amps would make a good sound as far as I am concerned.
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I'll just add another comment. What I'm really attracted to these days, but haven't pulled the pin, are those tube amps with all the little switches to get different voicings. Examples are the Egnater Renegade and Tweaker, Mesa Transatlantic and recent Vox Night Train. These seem to be the up and coming thing at the expensive end of the sprectrum.
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i like the yamaha stuff. i used to have a dg-stomp, and i still have a magicstomp and recently bought a thr10 (mini practice amp). it's great.
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He also cheated by making the Mustang clips louder. Everybody would have picked B if that had been the other way round. It's very important that audio clips are equal volume for comparison. I think it's really sad that budding musicians without a lot of money to spend are manoeuvred into buying cheap modelling amps which make all kinds of outrageous promises in the marketing blurb and then fail to deliver. One of the worst things is that you don't learn anything about how to craft a tone. A real amp, and the way it responds to control tweaks and pedals, is a much richer sonic experience than pressing a button for an inferior-sounding preset. A lot of music has been directly inspired by fiddling with gain, tonestack, etc and finding a cool new sound, or by letting rip and pushing the tubes & speakers until they sing. |
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Your comment prompted me to test the volume of the the A-B test in the video using a line out audio feed direct to two channel inputs on my Roland VS-880EX recorder. By utilizing the peak hold function of the VU meters and monitoring the entire test for mean volume level I was able to verify that the average and peak sound pressures for both A and B sections were virtually identical. You're certainly entitled to your opinion regarding the tube vs modeling amp discussion but calling the claims made for modeling amps to be "outrageous" appears to be more an indication of your own bias than of an impartial assessment of the facts. To be clear, I own a tube amplifier and enjoy using it. That doesn't preclude my enjoying my Fender Mustang modeling amp or thinking that it produces an equally good sound.
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