Re: Eleven Rack? Was: Eventide. Was: NOrd

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Jeff Shirkey <jcshirke@frontier.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Not better nor worse than the competitors on the same
>> level I would say.
>
> I guess it depends whether or not you think the Axe-Fx is at or above the
> level to which you refer. Are you saying Line 6 and Eleven Rack are on 
>the
> same level? Or are you saying that all of these companies are basically 
>on
> the same level when it comes to amp modeling?
>

What I meant to say is that I think they are all so different that
each player has to listen and decide based on his own needs. Guitar
sound is a personal thing that depends on many variable which makes it
hard to say that something is generally "better" or "worse" than
something else. What you could say though is wether you think a
specific product is better or less good for a particular type of
sound; like for example "snappy funk chords sound", "warm jazz sound"
or "metal sound".  When I say "on the same level" I mean two things;
first that if you compare for example the Eleven Rack with the plugin
Eleven you have to make sure the plugin version is hosted in a system
going through an audio interface of the same quality as the Rack and
finally that when comparing the algorithms I'm looking only at stuff
that will sound as good as the AD/DA gear allows (ruling out products
like 16 bit iPhone guitar amp simulators etc). In my book everything
above a certain level is good enough, the more important point is how
well certain products suite specific musical needs.

Per