2/27/2024 0 Comments Bias fx 2 amps![]() And that's how you end up with a wall of amps, and a freezer full of Wagyu. If I didn't enjoy the experience after a dozen attempts, I'd just stick to a known entity that I do enjoy. If everyone I knew told me synthetic beef was awesome, cheaper, more convenient and they couldn't tell the difference then I'd probably try it. Or a forum dude saying amp guys are dinosaurs etc. Or that your buddy has a Fractal and swears he can't hear a difference. What is completely irrelevant to this type of player (and I'm one), is say a youtube video demonstrating that a Kemper profile recording sounds very similar to the real amp. You end up playing for ages, get inspired, and wish to God your bandmates (or spouse) could understand the importance of your mission. You dial in the amp, hit two chords and it just feels great. Surely with limitless options digital enables there would be an amazing array of new and original tones out in the world?Īnyone who has had, or regularly gets that rush from a killer amp/cab combination knows the feeling well. The uniqueness part is counter-intuitive really. For many users, I just don't think the technology lends itself to uniqueness, happy accidents, rebellious envelope-pushing, or good times in general really. My personal take on digital 'solutions' is pretty simple - I don't have fun, it doesn't feel inspiring, and I have never had a 'memorable moment' using one. But the sentence and a half above perfectly sums up what many tube amp users see as significant factors outside of sound. I haven’t tried changing the tubes or impedance curve in the Fractal to me a 1:1 match, but I don’t believe it would take a lot of effort.Ĭlick to expand.I'm not going to comment on tone at all - obviously so subjective. It’s the same way they don’t feel ‘normal’ if you turn off the power amp sim in the amp block and run a 6L6 modeled amp you’ve played through for years into an E元4 power section of a real amp IE- my Shiva has E元4’s, the Fractal model is a 20th with KT88’s, it’s a subtle difference, but running the 20th model into the return of my actual Shiva has a slightly different response than playing the model on it’s own/through a class D amp. I’d just stay on one amp and adjust the EQ if that were the case. You can dial a Dual Rec and a 5150 in to sound as close as possible, they still won’t feel the same to play through and if I didn’t get that same difference in response, this shit wouldn’t be near as much fun as it is to use. I’ve never used another hardware modeler outside of the AxeFX III/FM9, but when I first started dialing in Mark IV, Dual Rec and 5150 presets, amps that I owned and gigged for years, that shit made me laugh with how spot on the feel was and how I had to dial them in the same way to get the response I was looking for. ![]() The Thermionik was the first Mesa sim that got close, but there was still that disconnected feeling when using them. I’ve yet to play any software that felt appealing to play, I used them for about a year, Amplitube’s Mesa suite, some LePou stuff and the Thermionik stuff.
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