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If you do gig, you'll find the sound in every venue is different but going direct to PA simplifies all of that for you (and the sound guy will love you!)
You like a thing, so you say "we all like this".
It's not true.
"I" play in a pub band with a pretty average PA and go direct with a Helix and the 'feel factor' is there as a player who's used valve amps for years there's nothing at all "I" miss using a Helix and going direct. Don't know who this 'we' is but it doesn't include me
Anyone that uses a top quality amp in a band with a crappy PA is wasting their time unless the audience is full of guitarists who are only listening to the guitar
But it may be a downward spiral....
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
I speak as "guitarists in general" which is true. IMO. Gigging guitarists mostly play with real valve amps + pedals. Feel free to disagree though if you will feel bettererer. Digital modelling is more or less the bedroom rockers domain. ;-)
There are still pub rockers turning up with marshall stacks to play for 40 people, that doesn't mean everything invented since is bunk...
You seem to get the impression I'm against modelling or don't like the helix - both for the record are false. At home I use modelling a lot. Find it way easier to deal with for low volume stuff, plus you can change a sound drastically with a patch based processor. That is is good for live use to of course but, most of the bands I've seen/heard over the years and most 'famous' guitarists use real amps and pedals live. I think the guitar world is slowly changing of course in that regard as modelling gets better..but its not there yet. Its still on its journey. Maybe if valves do get banned eventually then there will be a wholesale jump over to the dark side. Till then long live the valve!! Modelling for me is still like diet coke (rola cola's version) compared to full fat Coka Cola.
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/content/dam/journey/us/en/private/2016/01/1990 Can't Beat the Real Thing.jpg
You'd be amazed at the the amount of acts using Kemper direct at the festival I played at recently.
There was a fair smattering of Axe Fx and Helix too.
I do do still use real amps at home though sometimes
all the nice amps are too loud or too heavy for most venues I play
I record with them but Helix puts in 50 plus gigs per year