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the thing with emulating a real world scenario, let's say a Fender Twin in the Axe-FX via FRFR with a real Fender Twin is that it's still not comparing apples with apples..
the Axe-FX through an FRFR rig will sound exactly like a real Fender Twin that has been mic'd and you're sitting either in the control room or front of house.. which is a rather different experience..
if you put a modeller through a valve power amp, you'll be hearing the voice of the power amp too..
in this case you'd bypass power amp modelling in the Axe-FX [unless you happen to like the power amp through a power amp tone].. lol..
that said.. using our previous example,
you'd end up with the tone stack of a Fender Twin through let's say a Marshall EL34 100W/100W [and then there's the cabs…]
absolutely not comparing apples with apples now…
that said.. although for accuracy our tone has gone way off on a tangent, there's no reason why it wouldn't sound cool..
I think the only thing that is equally sniffy about some valve tone guys, is modeller guys that refuse to use anything but "the right cabs" with specific amps because they're trying to be 100% authentic [forgetting that they're also hearing the mic and its placement that the IR was shot with]..
tools like the Axe-FX etc are just tools… they're good.. highly flexible, and will allow you to create all kinds of mental combinations of things.. so I say just screw with stuff until you find something that hit's the spot.. even if it's proper strange..
essentially taking your amp / cab to the custom shop but in the digital domain…
which I know can produce some astonishing tones..
in my experience this is absolutely the case…
it is worth noting that if you cut a recording of exactly the same source performance through two real amps of the same make and model, with exactly the same settings, through cabs of the same make and model, there's nothing to suggest that the tones would be 100% the same
I have a pair of 1960b cabs… they are the same spec, and yet they sound noticeably different…
funnily enough, having gigged them for years and years, it wasn't me that spotted it.. it was Drew
EDIT: if I recall correctly [when Drew and I were chatting about this in the studio] it was the fact that they were very similar, but just different enough that was the magic formula..
nothing special.. and they're mic'd live
and….
"an IR (which is a sample of a Power Amp and Cab)"
in the Axe-FX, the power amp and cab are not shot together.. they are completely decoupled..
the tone gets very compressed, muffled and wooly..
it's the "blanket over my cabs" tone..
So even a 4x12 with 4 of the same speakers, each speaker can sound a bit different.
the highs get wiped out
and I think the area roughly around the 90Hz to 150Hz gets a double boost.. once from the IR and then again from the cab
yukky
fuzz + fuzz = fizz + noiz.. lol
Speakers are inconsistent. I've got 8 of the same type of speaker (Mesa V30, 16 ohm). None of them sound the same. I don't think I've ever heard two speakers that sound the exact same, though some are very close to the point you'd never hear it outside of an isolated A/B.
I've got two identical 2x12 cabs, one is deeper and smoother, the other is tighter and a bit harsher in comparison. They're both the exact same cab. I think pretty much anyone could tell the difference if I played one then the other. But they sound great together.
This is another reason why IRs of the same speaker from different companies can sound different.