How To Make Your Modeler Sound Like a REAL AMP - 3 approaches That I've Used Over the Years

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  @NorthGeorgiaMountains · 1 year ago

  I’m 61 years old. I grew up through the 60’s and 70’s using peavey, Marshall and fender tube amps. You couldn’t pay me to go back to that cluster F of problems. <br><br>Plug into your amp modeler, find what feels good to you and play guitar.

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  @sunshower-soul · 1 year ago

  Learned some good tips in this video, thank you. &nbsp;It also provided the impetus to go look into Helix Native, which is available to registered HX Stomp owners for $99.

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  @lostinpa-dadenduro7555 · 1 year ago

  There is a generation of guitarists coming up (or are here now) who have never owned, played the physical amps the modelers model, or jammed a half stack at band practice. &nbsp; Will be interesting to see how they interpret things and what things they consider important to a sound.

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  @slightleeguitarded8787 · 1 year ago

  For me, I figured out pretty quick what sounds the best is to bypass the cabs in the Helix and just play thru a real cabinet.

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  @cmonsterz · 1 year ago

  As a bit of an older guitarist, I’ve played amps for decades. They sound one way in a room in a house and sound very different in a small club and even more different in a larger venue. And then there’s evaluating tone when the guitar is “by itself” versus evaluating tone in a band setting versus in a recorded mix. An infinite number of variables (including mics, mic positions, temperature and humidity). I started experimenting with modeling at the POD 2.0. I liked it quite a lot and liked it much more with XTLive. I tried different brands of modelers and finally ended up with the Helix Floor. In my opinion, it gives me nearly everything I need. Originally, I vacillated between the Helix and the Quad Cortex DSP. I considered the latter as I have older gear that I thought would be fun to tone capture. Ultimately, I’ve ended up selling much of that gear and just run with the Helix. Happy as the proverbial clam.

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  @larryfarkas · 7 months ago

  Wow, Thank you.

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  @BobbyCulpepperGuitar · 1 year ago

  We should shift from amp in the room to amp in the room through pa speaker because thats where it gets tricky. Especially outdoors and having to use low quality floor monitors

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  @Cosmogang · 1 year ago

  Man I love the slight doubler effect. Reminds me of Shawn Lane but at 1/4 speed 😅

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  @StratsRUs · 1 year ago

  Beautiful playing !!

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  @Flipp2011 · 1 year ago (edited)

  tip for iems and treble, take the buds off and put a thin strip of micropore tape across the sound port ( put the buds back on lol) works for me

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  @datmancan · 1 year ago

  They need to create a pedal that creates harmonic overtones. The idea is, after the model, it plugs into the overtone box, then out to the front end of the p.a. id use a pedal like &quot;the paige&quot; made by kingsley amps to use before going into the modeller, and that might be it really. They could make a digital overtone simulator, and place that last in line before exiting the modeller...the idea is getting what we get from a real amp in the band room/stage environment where you and the audience would hear, feel, the overtones working harmoniously with the band/space environment.

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  @michaelshields6585 · 1 year ago

  Eq the cabinet consistent to the speaker range and the brittle noise in the high end goes away

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