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onstage?
4:22 if you want to hear the lead tone and an embarrassing lack of appreciation for my stellar guitar playing
There's a distinctive digital fizz on the top end
Only joking - It sounds great, and great playing too. Who needs an amp
good stuff hope that shuts a lot of these bedroom dwellers up
if so what's changed for you? Improvements in Helix or was the backline just a mental crutch or what?
ps. What's on the board these days?
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
so after the event, being able to switch amps, cabs, settings etc… very powerful stuff
I know you can reamp with real amps, but it's not as easy
I still get the trouser flapping..
a pair of 4x12 cabs and 500W per channel of power amp takes care of all that..
like you, I dive in with both feet.. and when making kit choices, tone quality is a big part of the equation but not all of it..
lack of flexibility and control capabilities will make me walk away from a piece of kit that sounds absolutely stellar
my Rig of Doom V2 was 2600W per side.
Every day I'm tempted to rebuild it, using the Helix as the primary preamp, with the Ampeg SVP-BSP as the parallel one. Then I remember how heavy the Yamaha P series power amps I was using were, and that's before we get to the cabs (the cabs were 110 lb each).
And then to cap it all, I remember I had an estate car then.
Never mind.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
you're absolutely right I was leaning on the backline as I was scared to let go and do a full 2 hour plus set with a set up I didn't like
I was forced into it in Arran due to space limitations and it was fine
in fact it was better than fine so I did it the next gig
I don't know if I would go back
Ive taken all the drive pedals off my board so all that is on there is the Helix a G30 wireless unit, a line6 expression pedal a Buddha wah and a clock
@Cabicular absolutely awesome mate
It sounds and feels legit to me. I had a lot of predjudice of my own to get over but I'm glad a kept a semi open mind.
I can now do things that are impossible with any other rig without losing any of the joy of making a big Guitarry noise
Valve amps just 'feel' better than a modeller when playing them. Feel being a combination of things (tone, responsiveness, mental difference of seeing / feeling a big amp etc).
Having said that, a high end modeller does a pretty damn good impression, is ultimately much cheaper and is so much more convenient for everyday use - you can use headphones, portable, contains all the effects you need, much easier for recording etc.
I am open minded, love modelling and what it brings. But a good valve amp is still king in terms of ultimate tone / feel.
"Feel" is just a blend of confirmation bias and volume.
Peavey ValveKing vs Pod Hd?
So yep - if you only care about sound, and you absolutely have to have every last bit of that particular sound 100% spot-on...yes, a good valve amp is probably better. In all other situations, modellers are at least a coin-flip from being better.
Funny you should say that...I currently use neither a modeller nor glass bottles in my signal path