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Upon further investigation, this is the coolest cabinet simulation software EVAH. Except for having to wear the dreaded headphones (really the only drawback to it), I'm finally recording more how I'd play live at home (channel-hopping on the amp, dropping effects in and out for an accent, for whatever); and because I have a Boogie, I can still get crazy, usable sustain at manageable levels. The FX, especially the echoes, sound great. Did a track with volume swells, tapped the tempo in time with the click, bam.
I mean, you are stuck with an effect on a track in this manner, but if you're applying them judiciously, it's not a problem.
It's really important to spend the time and tailor your amp's EQ to the modeled cabinet, much like you would if you really plugged in a different cab. The "Green 4x12" mod sounds better with a bit less bass and treble than my own cab likes. The graphic EQ on my head - already assigned to one channel-only, is essentially set flat for this.
OK, maybe one more drawback is that, unless I want to use a load resistor box in lieu of the cabinet, I'm kinda limited to a very finite window of certain hours I can crank up on weeknights. While that'd be convenient for night recording, it would totally eliminate the ability to get the cabinet in the room to react, and the software picking it up - one of the primary selling points in my book after hearing it do that, so I'll live with limited weeknight usage and count on weekend recording for the next few weeks.
However, I do have some more vacation time I could burn off...recording day!
This weekend's experiment - double-tracking rhythms with two emulated greenback 4x12s - one with an SM57, one a U87 at a distance (5, 10 'feet', dunno)...think Rhoads...should be sick!! Probably will end up replacing half the PODfarm tracks at this rate (probably will dump the Soldano and Bogner emulated tracks, keep the Marshall Plexi), the Boogie is, as you'd imagine, just KILLING them.
Upon further investigation, this is the coolest cabinet simulation software EVAH. Except for having to wear the dreaded headphones (really the only drawback to it), I'm finally recording more how I'd play live at home (channel-hopping on the amp, dropping effects in and out for an accent, for whatever); and because I have a Boogie, I can still get crazy, usable sustain at manageable levels. The FX, especially the echoes, sound great. Did a track with volume swells, tapped the tempo in time with the click, bam.
I mean, you are stuck with an effect on a track in this manner, but if you're applying them judiciously, it's not a problem.
It's really important to spend the time and tailor your amp's EQ to the modeled cabinet, much like you would if you really plugged in a different cab. The "Green 4x12" mod sounds better with a bit less bass and treble than my own cab likes. The graphic EQ on my head - already assigned to one channel-only, is essentially set flat for this.
OK, maybe one more drawback is that, unless I want to use a load resistor box in lieu of the cabinet, I'm kinda limited to a very finite window of certain hours I can crank up on weeknights. While that'd be convenient for night recording, it would totally eliminate the ability to get the cabinet in the room to react, and the software picking it up - one of the primary selling points in my book after hearing it do that, so I'll live with limited weeknight usage and count on weekend recording for the next few weeks.
However, I do have some more vacation time I could burn off...recording day!
This weekend's experiment - double-tracking rhythms with two emulated greenback 4x12s - one with an SM57, one a U87 at a distance (5, 10 'feet', dunno)...think Rhoads...should be sick!! Probably will end up replacing half the PODfarm tracks at this rate (probably will dump the Soldano and Bogner emulated tracks, keep the Marshall Plexi), the Boogie is, as you'd imagine, just KILLING them.
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