Yeah you can't take anything for granted. Remember that line in Scarface? "Every day above ground is a good day."

Had several US dates lined up. Said he'll be back in 2024.

Hadn't heard from him in ages. Good to see he's still shredding it up and hopefully has a speedy recovery. If anyone exemplifies speedy, it's him. Along with Pat Metheny, he'd be absolutely magical to see play live.


I'd like to think it was just the stress of being on the road, the poor eating usually associated with constant travel, and inadequate rest.

i had a CE24 and loved it, really regret selling it actually.

should i get this :

https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/produ...caAlAGEALw_wcB

i hate the fancy PRS tops

interesting. love the way they play though, as in neck size - because i have smallish hands.

what's your absolute fav guitar neck, it's a suhr modern isn't it?

ohh yeah ibanez. i'd snap up one of those petrucci ibanez picasso guitars. dope as ****

thinking about getting either a Martin 00-18 or 00-28

any thoughts? cheers

I finally got around to getting Neural Amp Modeler and an IR plugin set up.

I figure I saved at least $1k in getting to experiment with profiling

Initial playing around is pretty awesome!

What's different?

I suspect my hardware is more powerful than what's in a standalone unit.

Have you compared a NAM against a Kemper, Tonex, or Cortex?

I'm feeding it previously recorded dry input and am impressed so far. Especially for free.

yeah i'm a fan of the idea of letting all outboard amp/fx processing being done by an external unit

True.

But for home experimentation, is the difference perceptible? Is the difference worth thousands of dollars to try?

That's a pretty general statement.

Profiling =/= modelling



One of them is free to experiment and determine if profiling can work for you.

ah sorry, i genuinely don't really know what i'm talking about when it comes to gear or guitar really - i'm out of the loop. i'm looking for my first decent amplfier and i'm coming across a total noob to guitar store employees and people on music forums haha.

but yeah, as far as I'm aware all the processing is done in the unit (in my case kemper), so it saves your PC having to process it. when u use plugins etc I guess you just have to need a high quality audio interface and a nice fast computer?

I'm old school (vry).

My personal use case is playing and recording at home, exclusively. I absolutely love my tube amp! To make things practical, I run it to a reactive load with IR loading capability (Two Notes CaptorX). It's awesome!

But...

It's an incredible time to be a guitarist. Modelling and profiling are facilitating great sounds at silent room levels - headphones only!

Now that I have a bit more time and a dedicated set up, I've become curious about other tones. So GAS kicks in.

I've been shopping and looking at Fractal, Helix, Tonex, Kemper, Quad Cortex, and even the Strymon Iridium to expand my pallet. (I have a Spark mini for practicing around the house and outside).

I heard about NAM a while back but was feeling lazy about getting things set up. Now that I'm ready to pull the trigger on something, I decided to give the free solution a try and compiled the plug in and an IR loader today.

I already have a decent interface (Scarlett 18i20, 2nd gen), a reamp box (Radial JCR), and a decent processor (AMD 3800x) with a training-capable GPU (RTX 2060).

For me, the opportunity to experiment with profiling with no additional financial investment is pretty awesome!

The real-time latency is really low on my system, I can mess around with any amp I can think of.

With the reamp set-up I can use my pedalboard without issue.

Long story long - I'm blown away by what's available for free!

So how are you finding going digital has worked for you? I know you appreciate saving money and finding free options, but what I've seen and heard, even the decent price tag of Axe-Fx is well worth it. I've heard some of the best tones in my life from that, and the amount of nuance and tweakability could satisfy the most autistic audiophile.

I'm confused AF by all of this as well and much more than you, when I last played all my effects were built into my steady-state and the only pedals I had were a reverb and my Vox wah. But I foresee a future where the biggest names are doing huge gigs 100% digitally.

Take it all with a grain of salt. If you've got expensive hardware from Fractal, etc. of course you're going to double down and try to justify your investment and superiority over cheaper options.

I've heard a lot of people say the Archetype plugins from Neural sound better right out of the gate than the Quad Cortex. As long as your audio interface is low latency you'll be fine with software.

I liken this to hardware vs. soft synths, outboard racks vs. plugins, IRs vs. real cabs with expensive mics... list goes on. Of course we'd all love to have a room full of gear. It sounds better, looks great, and you can turn physical controls. But you're shelling out thousands for that old gear not to mention the cost to maintain it when it stops working.

Take it a step further and look at a studio console vs. "in the box." Of course if money was no object we'd all want a room with an old Neve or SSL desk, Pultec EQs, tube compressors, racks of vintage gear, old synths, Neumann mics, etc. and an engineer on hand but who can afford it?You have to compromise somewhere.

Digital is really convenient!

I still use my old Behringer Vamp2 and the Spark Mini has absolutely led to me playing more.

I love the feel and sound of my tube amp and it's really versatile (Mesa MkIV running EL34 and 6L6) together will my set of pedals. That's still my go to.

But, for experimenting - NAM is an awesome tool to have in the toolbox, imo

This dude's got issues. He had his posts deleted by Dominik for childishness and I've repeatedly said I don't own a guitar ATM, so it's not like I'm hiding anything. I said I studied jazz theory back around 20 years ago when I was playing all the time.

I don't get why not owning a guitar ATM precludes from talking about the instrument.

Now these posts will likely be deleted, lol.

I never said anything other than I studied abstruse jazz theory and incorporated it into my playing. I actually passed the music theory test ITT, even after my request for musical context was declined. Dudes just making chit up.

I think he's just another right-wing wing nut who lives in perpetual anger and needs to invent evil intentions, false motives and farcical accusations where they just simply don't exist. But yesterday the guy who saw my PhD transcript rolled up and said he'd received it and silenced the haters in one fell swoop. It was glorious.

Someone explain why I can't talk guitar in here because I don't own one ATM, and I'll accept it.

...and affordable. Most of us are going to use digital at some point in the chain. Let's say you shell out big bucks for a nice 100W head. Even if you're loading it down with some kind of attenuator or reactive load to get great tones at lower volumes how are you recording it? Mics or IRs? And once you've recorded it are you going to add compression, EQ, etc. with outboard gear or plugins?

For someone on a budget digital is a no brainer. It will get you a lot closer to the tones you're hearing in the music you like than anything else.

I didn't struggle with anything, I identified what was going on in each of the progressions, and when adimare didn't provide extra musical context, I went away and researched what it could be and came back with the answer. 20 years on from serious study....It's not going to come back in an instant.

I haven't pretend to be on any level I'm not. I've said literally over a dozen times I don't own a guitar ATM, the last time I was recorded playing was year 10 music twenty years ago before smartphones etc. and I have no idea where the footage is.

LogicalLifts literally posted the transcript and confirmed it was mine. He said it didn't show the award of the degree but that's because he isn't familiar with academic transcripts and forgot that I never claimed I had a PhD. Dude shut the haters up in an instant.

Take your meds dude, you're losing it. I'll come back in the morning and find all of this deleted, too, lol.