Guitar Amp/FX simulators

[ernstinen]

Y'all know I'm an "Old School" electric guitar player, but for the past 4 months I've been playing through an original Tom Scholz "Rockman" which has a bunch of settings, including stereo reverb and chorus. "Headphone heaven!" The boost setting will give you the sustain of Santana, and the clean settings are shimmery clean. Really helped my playing a lot.Unfortunately, I heard Scholz sold his patented "Boston" sound to Dunlop, who have made a pale comparison. Too bad --- what a little dynamo the original was! Scholz made millions on this gem of a guitar preamp, and is laughing all the way to the bank.Oh well --- on to the future! Ern

[t4mh]

Apr 3, 2009, 5:19pm, ernstinen wrote:Y'all know I'm an "Old School" electric guitar player, but for the past 4 months I've been playing through an original Tom Scholz "Rockman" which has a bunch of settings, including stereo reverb and chorus. "Headphone heaven!" The boost setting will give you the sustain of Santana, and the clean settings are shimmery clean. Really helped my playing a lot.Unfortunately, I heard Scholz sold his patented "Boston" sound to Dunlop, who have made a pale comparison. Too bad --- what a little dynamo the original was! Scholz made millions on this gem of a guitar preamp, and is laughing all the way to the bank.Oh well --- on to the future! Ern I have one of these and I've always loved it too! I'm fairly old school about guitar also. While I do quite a bit of modeling, mainly its just me, my guitars and my amp. But everything I do I can take out and play live. I should probably consider one of these software emulators but they're just that, emulations of things I can already do. Still they might be faster than setting up mics and all that...and I've heard good things about some of them.Keith

[ernstinen]

Apr 4, 2009, 5:45am, t4mh wrote:I have one of these and I've always loved it too! I'm fairly old school about guitar also. While I do quite a bit of modeling, mainly its just me, my guitars and my amp. But everything I do I can take out and play live. I should probably consider one of these software emulators but they're just that, emulations of things I can already do. Still they might be faster than setting up mics and all that...and I've heard good things about some of them.Yup, Keith, I played guitar in a showcase band for a friend a few years ago, and he also hired a hot-shot guitarist straight out of G.I.T. in Hollywood (learned his stuff from Steve Vai, Joe Satriani etc.).This young buck played through an array of processors, and had chops to burn. BUT, it sounded, um, fake! Not like a "real" guitar should sound.He finally asked me "Dude, your sound is so great! HOW do you do it!?"I told him "A '63 Fender Strat, with a guitar cable into a Soldano amp." He says "Wow, cool! I never thought of that!" So, there ya go! "Nothin' like the real thing, baby!"Ern