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I bet @WiresDreamDisasters is going to be all over this.
I've actually not tried a GT-1000 but it sounds like they've fixed the "I can never use this" issue with the GT-100 that I had. So my beard is a bit strokey. But also, I definitely want to get a Kemper Stage at some point... so.... it's a question of money.
The presets I dialed in at home translated really well. We had a bit of time at soundcheck for once, so the singer in my band (who just happens to be a killer guitar player) soundchecked my guitar while I stood out front and mixed the band.
What I can say is the AIRD tech that Boss have implemented is no gimmick. From a playing point of view you can really feel it under the fingers. Plus because the cab is interacting with the amp in both directions as a real valve amp would I didn't have to use as much gain as I have done in the past with other modelers. Normally I would be dialing the gain up just to get the sustain I needed. Plus I would only get feedback on bigger gigs where the PA was up louder.
With the Boss there is tons of sustain there and the guitar was naturally drifting into nice feedback on my lead sound, and we weren't even that loud as it was a small room. So the interaction between the amp and speaker is all happening within the unit itself, I'm not sure how they have done it but it really works.
On the Helix, Fractal and Atomic you start with a blank canvas and add in the effects blocks you need.
With the Boss every effects block is displayed in the chain and you have to move them around into the order you want. So even un-used blocks remain in the chain.
DSP wise I found I would run out of space on all but the boss for what I needed. So I had to compromise and work round it. The boss will never run out of DSP it’s insanely powerful. Switching is seamless on the Boss. It’s fairly quick on the others but there are audible gaps even when using scenes/snapshots.
For me with regards to programming on the unit themselves the Fractal was by far the worst. In fact I never got my head around it. The PC/Mac editor is essential for the Fractal. The Atomic was similar.
The Helix and boss are the easiest to program in that regard. However I still preferred using the PC/Mac editors for all of them. All of the editors are excellent and well laid out.
Out of nowhere I find myself really wanting one. Main use would be to replace a pedalboard going into my Princeton Reverb but I would also use the amp sims for headphone practice.
I've previously owned a HX Stomp and I still own Helix Native. I like(d) them both but I've always struggled a bit to get a tone I truly love whereas the Boss GT001 I picked up last week sounds good straight out the box, so I'm very tempted by a bigger Boss unit.
Any thoughts?
The "output" selection doesn't seem to have anything that would match up to a PRRI, so I'm intrigued as to how that would work in reality.