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Digital vs. Analog (Was: Line 6 Tonecore Verbzilla)
I don't want to seem like a troglodyte or anything but I wonder if
people have simply considered a judicious selection of analog pedals
and a good cab simulator instead of digital simulations. I have a
modest pedal board with pitch-shifter, delay, distortion, wah, reverb
and chorus but I never seem to run out of incredible sounds to create
from it. I've tried a number of digital boards but the problems I
have with them are twofold:
First, patches aren't intuitive. I don't know exactly what I'm
getting as I do when I'm tweaking knobs. There's a discontinuity
that I find very disconcerting.
Second, digital simulations seem to break down at those very points
that I find most interesting when I'm working with analog effects. A
digital howl disappears just when I want to goose it with excessive
amounts of gain or with total abuse of my wah or pitch-shifter
pedal. A low level multi-harmonic hum fades just when I want to
capture it in a loop.
Am I alone here or are their other folks who like to abuse analog or
even acoustic effects? Or will I finally see the light and buy a
laptop to cultivate my very own VST farm?
Cheaply,
Kevin