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I think there were some great suggestions out there,
including trimming cable fat ( I use george L’s), and simply pairing
down. When I paired down to go to Europe, I actually found it very liberating
in the months leading up to my trip to just dig deeper in to my paired down
rig, and realize that I can find ways to re-create certain effects I knew I had
to leave behind. Example: using my tone control to mimic an envelope follower
as I played hammer-ons. Or using my volume control with long delay and
reverb tails to create the swell delay effect I use on my DL-4 But, The amp modeling issue for you is one I
feel is the hardest to address. Even the amp modeling in Logic, which means for
you, investing in an expensive Mac and additional software, and a new platform,
has short comings in sound, dimension, feel, and latency, though every thing
else about the Logic platform is pretty stellar from my limited experience. but
I also realize I’m coming from a place where I have been playing tube
amplifiers and stomp box effects for many years and for my ears, even a tube
preamp with basic speaker emulation, like the marshall JMP-1 , boogie Triaxis,
or the out of production Boogie Formula, sounds better to my ears
in many ways, than a modeling amp with 57 varieties of amps that doesn’t
nail one amp convincingly. I wish there were more of these type of tube
preamps available, in a lighter more portable stomp box style box, or
better yet, a tube preamp/ computer interface the size of a MOTU
traveler that uses subminiature tubes and really caters to guitar players
with amp style potentiometer control, re-active load speaker emulation,
and some built in, non CPU draining DSP. At least that’s what I want J I also
want richer harmonic content, better dynamic range with more natural response
to picking dynamics, natural compression, to name a few things, that tubes do
the best, and that I haven’t gotten thus far from modeling. But I
also understand that if you didn’t have the reference point that I do,
you might not hear and feel the difference I’m hearing and feeling. But
from what Erdem said, it seems like he does. So with that in mind I would suggest perhaps a
combination of both things, paired down. Maybe use your preamp, and your
most versatile processor which I would assume is the Eclipse. And perhaps your
lap top running audio mulch and what-ever extra effects plug-ins you can run
with out drawing too much CPU. Or a hard ware looper if you don’t want to
take a lap top for looping. I think if you dig deep in to that Eclipse you will
find it can replace half the stuff you mentioned. I have to say
that I’m not down on modeling as a whole, I love my DL-4, I
just think that certain things like delay and modulation effects are much
easier to model well than tube amplifiers. The other day when I sat down to
play the new Line 6 M-13, I was running in to a fender tube amp, it sounded
great but I believe it needed that tube amp to sound its best. And
it is purely a stomp box modeler, no amps or speaker sims. I honestly believe
that if any one of the guitar players on this list sat down with me and we did
an AB comparison between their modeling amp doing a fender clean sound with a
minimal amount of effects, and either my boogie pre-amp direct with a dedicated
DSP, or an actual Princeton reverb with a handful of stomp boxes, it
would be obvious the difference in sound quality, and also in the way it feels
and responds to your touch. I’m really not trying to be a snob here, but
I can hear the difference.. Another thing you might consider doing is
getting something like an ME-10 and wherever you travel to record or
perform ,simply run it in to a tube amp and mic the speaker, and turn off
any amp or speaker modeling in the processor and simply use it as an
effects device and let the amp provide the tube mojo. Perhaps consider a floor
board that has a good assortment of the stomp boxes you need to leave behind
and hopefully a stereo effects loop for patching in your eclipse. I don’t
think I’ve ever been in a studio that didn’t have at least on
functional tube amp. That was more than my two cents Good luck Bill |