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And then they still want to record digital because it's not nearly big enough of a difference that the cost is worth it? Are you clipping all of your channels or something?

I think we need a new forum rule where if you say “I’ve been doing xxxx for xx years!” you have to post a link to one example of the thing. I know a lot of guys playing instruments for 25 years that I wouldn’t take lessons from.

A lot of those bands were actually trying to write decent songs instead of 3.5 minute tone tests, and engineers weren’t clipping every single sound/buss.

A lot of the lazy engineers are the people writing and playing, I think. But they see that X band has done well and they sell presets for popular plugins and modelers, so these guys think that if they can get the sound, they're on the way. But if the music sucks or doesn't engage the listener...

Which brings me to another unpopular opinion (maybe not on this board as much as others): Modelers and IRs aren't responsible for the homogenization of audio production and the sound of certain genres, lazy engineers and listeners are.

Pretty much. I've never quite understood the Kemper love through the years with people who don't have their own collection of amps to profile, or the people who profile their 6505+ and don't use any other profiles. I get profiling your favorite amp if it's something high end/unique/impossible to...

I hope they do and it mildly irritates at least one of them for a few minutes.

I would love to use Linux as a DAW but the lack of plugin support and the idea of doing anything in the terminal are what keeps me in Windows (and I HATE Apple's business model and peripheral hardware). I'm curious what "demonstrably worse" SSD performance you were seeing with W11? My idle stats...

I'm more tired of bands doing "metal" covers of current top 40 pop shit. I'm even more tired of lazy, mediocre bands somehow turning that into a career.

I think Fender is an outlier getting away with the prices they have on what is more or less a crippled modeler with a solid-state power section, and I doubt a lot of the high-gain players that would go for something like that would pay roughly tube-amp prices for a single-model combo or head. I...

Because guitar players are scared of things that don’t look the part.

The further profiling/capture tech advances the closer it becomes modeling where you do all of the work.

You're right, it's the widening/lessening of the beam that allows the speaker to sound more similar from room to room, but that doesn't change the fact that guitar cabs don't. And for the time being, I'm stuck with gear that emulates antiquated technology, but arguing for it's necessity or that...

I'm so embarrassed by "metal" marketing. The email for this has the 6.66 in the price in flames to be more metal.

I can say with 100% belief that my FRFR monitoring setup sounds 95% the same in any room. Never experienced that with a traditional cab no matter how nice they were. In-the room sound aside, I'd still be going DI digitally just because I LOVE my iems and most of those issues that impact...

You don't need an IR if your preamp doesn't need to be filtered through guitar cab to not sound like shit. If bassists, vocalists, etc can use a preamp straight into a FR speaker system without it ripping anyone's face off, I would assume there would be a way to do it with guitar as well. Guitar...

That's because the preamps are being designed around the speakers, though. I've seen some guys replace their IRs with an EQ to relative good results, so why not just have a preamp that sounds good through a "good" speaker system in the first place?

Most of this conversation for me comes back to: Guitar cabinets are terribly designed speaker systems and the fact that they have such a massive impact on tone is a weak point in guitar sound.

I feel like the companies making all this cool new digital gear would rather not spend their time emulating grampa's technology, but that's what guitarist demand and that's what moves units. I'm usually way more excited about a Helix update that has L6 original amps than another copy of some 30...

The only problem I have with the used market is people making offers don't seem to have any idea what they're looking at when they make price comparisons. No my guy, you can't have the full-size head for the price of the used mini-head, or the Ernie Ball version for Sterling prices. Then they...