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Currently getting back into playing but have a distinct lack of space at home. So I'm looking at the amp sim route. For the last week Ive been playing through my cheap old Toneport UX1 into Amplitube free which sounds okay to be fair but I'm wondering if theres a better option.
Ive seen Amplitube 4 and Guitar Rig 5 can be purchased with their own interface for cheap with a full variation of the software. So my options are either of these or using my old (?outdated) interface with something like Bias. I like the look of the HD iRig 2 simply cause it looks small and therefore portable but have read it can be questionable for build quality. Ill likely be sat on my sofa with laptop etc also on sofa so need interface to remain as small as possible!
This is not for recording - only for playing. Any suggestions?
Edit: also any recommendations for cheap headphones would be appreciated. Just using standard headphones you'd get with a phone at the moment which arent actually too bad but I'm sure there's better options.
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For amp sims, there are lots of really good free/cheap offerings. If you couple them with an Impulse Response loader for cab sim, there's a lot of tonal variation available.
Here are a couple;
http://www.igniteamps.com/#emissary - Free amp plugin
http://www.igniteamps.com/#nadir - IR cab loader
One of reasons i was thinking amp sim was having everything in one place. Amp, tabs, YouTube etc. Being able to flick laptop on, pull everything up and then get playing sounds bliss.
For headphones, Audio-Technica ATH-M50x are decent at the affordable end.
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I got the bundle after seeing Guy Michelmore demonstrate Stutter Edit (part of the bundle) on his Youtube channel. It's great fun, but I'm not how much it's going to be used yet.
Iris 2 (part of the bundle) seems like a nice synth as well. Luckily I had the presence of mind to set the sample library paths of Iris 2 and BreakTweaker to an external drive as together they amount to about 13GB.
Waves have announced that it is now possible to request and register a second license for most Waves plugins that you own and are covered by a current Waves Update Plan (WUP).
This allows you to have a copy installed on your studio computer and one on your portable without any tedious license moving, either by Waves Central or by loading the licenses onto a USB thumb drive, which has always had the potential for becoming lost whilst travelling.
You can get your second license for your waves plugins from the link below.
https://www.waves.com/account/register-second-licenses
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I thought I'd try to use the Abbey thing on a couple of my tracks that I'm trying to redo the mic and master thing and good lord my efforts sound terrible haha hopefully I can improve with it
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