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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Brett McCoy  wrote:

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> Amp modeling is really big (using Amplitube, Line 6 hardware or even

> guitarix), you can get pretty good sounds out of that. Amp modeling

> played through a tube amp and miked gives you the best of both

> worlds... more control over your tone and the warm tube-y sound.

While I don't want to argue the quality or a matter of preference or

the exact implementation--I completely disagree with the principle!
Amp modeling software should take the place of using tube amps in the

first place.  The filtering and non-linear qualities of the amp being

modeled are what you want to reproduce, not the noise, or the

transformers' hum.  The notion of creating amp modeling

software/hardware is to reduce costs compared to keeping a ton of

different amps for just the right tone, per application.  I think the

most efficient thing to do is to introduce the characteristic

distortion and filtering you want by a processor.
So, you should run the processed sound through an amp that has very

clean, low distortion characteristics (would be nice if such

hardware/software had capability to analyze the output of the

amplifier in use... one can dream... or design it).
That said... nothing sounds like a tube amp, quite like a tube amp :)

Amp modeling software doesn't take the place of tube amps in every

application.  Just watch out for the audiophile hocus-pocus that comes

with comparing amplifiers to each other.

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