Malcolm Boyce wrote:When you're using modelers, are you with or without speaker cabs? I find that most when used in the sense of replacing the "tone" generating aspect of an amp to be most satisfying.
Modeler > Power Amp > Speaker Cab > Mic
This also allows what I believe to be missing from most people's evaluations of modelers... The interaction between speaker and instrument.
This was exactly how we had out Pod Pro set up... and it's still nto something I would go back to willingly.
Malcolm Boyce wrote:Tubes are one aspect that plays a part in that "volume" thing, but the complexity of what happens when you excite a speaker enclosure to a certain volume is most certainly a larger factor.
I have no way of knowing which is the bigger factor in that equation because I don't use tube amps without a speaker of some kind attached to them. That may be more of an Alain question... Of course I understand that in any event the enclosure plays a big part.
That being said I'm curious about circumstances where a lower volume is more appropriate sonically. Can you give me an example? The only time I think that I would record a guitar amp at a lower volume is if something wasn't preventing me from turning it up for other reasons.