5 Things Where Guitar Amp Modelling Sucks

GP for Guitar and Bass Players
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But with a plot twist :joy:

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The video is made by an amp modeller vendor?
(sorry, havenā€™t watched it, but I know ML Sound Lab).

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Yes. :slight_smile:

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Super video. Excellent twist! Caught me off-guard, it did. Going to check out ML Sound Lab. Hope they have their ā€œbassesā€ covered. :wink:

EDIT: Yup, one bass amp, cleverly called ā€œAmped Bassā€. Purchased and installed. Itā€™s interesting that you have to install the trial version, which will generate the purchase ā€œRequest Codeā€ from which the license key is generated. Their website store is as fast or faster than any other Iā€™ve used. Kudos for making it really easy for me to spend my money. :+1: :guitar:

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Haha, what an awesome twist! :smile: :smile: :smile:

Thanks for the share!

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I know, I have all their plugins :slight_smile:
They are super responsive, we have a really great collaboration with those guys.

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I have a very mixed opinion on this video: on the one hand I didnā€™t recognise the sound of a Twin at all, or else I have the impression that the sound was going through a pedal which altered it completely.

Iā€™ve had 3 Twinā€™s in 50 years, different models with different HP (Jensen, Altec and Jbl, but no Oxford) but fortunately none of them ever sounded like this !

However, when I discovered that it was a simulated amp I understood what was bothering me and in this context I found the sound interesting.
Good job but not a credible demonstration for my part.

I visited ML Sound Labā€™s website, I listened to their virtual amps only for a few moments, because they are all hi-gain oriented. So I canā€™t even give an opinion because Iā€™m not interested in that kind of sound.

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I found it interesting, but not persuasive, for sort of the opposite reason.

Between having different guitars, never having owned high quality amps & cabs (as a basis for comparison), and being more focused on getting a sound I like than a replica of somebody elseā€™s sound, I listened through his 5 reasons and thought ā€œI donā€™t hear what it is that I supposedly canā€™t achieve in VST form.ā€

I went to the world of VSTs for practicality reasons a couple decades ago and never looked back, so to some degree I donā€™t need convincing. That said, I have a grand piano in my house and thereā€™s no combination of keyboards or VSTs that sounds or feels like sitting at a real piano in a real room. Itā€™s different, but that doesnā€™t make either option better or either one suck.

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the simulations ar all pretty good,the BIG mistake on clean wicked guitar is you have to have a loud enviroment to to have the gitar ā€œrespondingā€ reamping,to be a nerd, does not do it it has to be during the recording process - my tele on my plexy (no master) becomes a clean beast if i stay in front of the speaker having the amp half way up (50w).

conclusion: if you are recording with a ampsim,make shure you have your monitors on a ā€œgoodā€ volume this way you get sustain response from you guitar.

ps: as vindes mentioned: use this for that and that for this, whatever is the right sound-is the right sound