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the way to not suffer with latency is to reamp..
so I record the dry guitar direct from the Axe, whilst I listen to the Axe through my mixer [along with the backing music]
then I reamp the guitar tone later [which is a much better way to record]
live, I run the AF2 through a power amp and traditional Marshall 4x12 cabs.. sounds and feels absolutely stellar.. valve amp shmalve amp.. I just couldn't confine myself to a rig like that
How ever would you have played guitar in the 70's!!!
I've not used amp / stomps since about 91 / 92 ish.. and that was because all the river-dance action to get from clean to solo did my head in.. so I switched to a Roland GP-16.. and once I had that, I discovered the joys of MIDI: CC and exp pedals..
a few years later I had the Digitech 2120.. and there was just no going back.. not only the tone but soooo much control available..
and how on earth would I have got by in the 13th century when there weren't even any Marshalls and stuff...??
maybe I'd have refused to have been born until the age of electricity and the creation of rockin'-anda-rollin' technologies.. oh yeah.. and Floyd Rose too..
But then... I am going through a vinyl phase
At the end of the day, use what you want... but I think calling a standard guitar rig "limiting" or a confinment is (again imho) fetishizing the digital options we have. They're all just tools to get to the same place - creativity.
the main reason I find the old skool amp / stomp rig limiting is that real-time control via exp pedals / MIDI has become a major component in my performance style.. also, switching tones / amps / fx combinations and layouts in a single stomp is a killer thing too.. this all opens up huge performance avenues in ways that are seriously difficult [and in some cases impossible] in a traditional rig..
studio though is a whole different deal.. I just reamp with a single amp and cab for each tone I need to cut..
I'm not saynig [and have never said] that traditional amp / stomp rigs sound bad or anything like that, because it's just not true.. the thing I find confining is purely the control and flexibilitiy [in the live performance sense] side of things..
I've had many setups that went towards this. The best was a Boss GT-100 controlling the amp, and setup in 4-cable method. The worst was a Musicomlabs EFXII and a bunch of single pedals. That was the most finnicky anal-retentive rig I'd ever constructed!
I wont bore you with details on why they didn't work. Suffice to say, the simpler the better seems to working best for me.
I've 2 pedal boards, one in front of the amp (gains, compressor), one in the FX Loop (delays and modulations).
A lot of the pedals are one-tune wonders - for specific cover-band tunes.
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you can download ready made patches for the AF2, so if you can't be bothered finding your own tone, you can use someone else's
My 2p - It doesn't working like that in my experience. I downloaded patches that sounded great when the author played through them but sounded like cack when loaded into my rig.