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28 Nov 2021
I'm really confused about all these options and if they are really comparable.

Fist I must say I own an old 30 year valvestate 100 amp. It served well but It is a bit lacking. As you know it is not top quality and I think it should be flagged as a medium quality amp. So I want to update my gear but being as efficient as I could in terms of money spent/quality.

So, I have 4 options (if anyone knows others let me know):

1 - Real amp/cab with quad cortext: The most expensive option, perhaps too much.

2 - Real amp/cab with a load of pedals, etc.: This is another expensive one, perhaps not as much as the previous one but less flexible.

3 - Monitors with quad cortex: I'me leaned towards this one perhaps I could reuse my monitors for music production.

4 - Monitors + vsts (Neural DSP, Stl Tonehub, THU, etc.) : This will be the cheapest optionand I think there won't be much differece with 3 because in the end quad cortes is a "hardware vst" if I can call it that.

So, my question is, how can we compare sounding through a real cab to use monitors with vsts, is there a noticiable diffrence in quality, warmness, etc.? If there's no any and in the end is just a player preference because both options provide a really good sound, would you go for the cortex or just stick with the vsts? I won't play live it is only for home production.

Thanks in advance!
18 Nov 2020
Hi,

I have started to review the very bottom of my picking technique with Todd. I love how Todd puts a lot of effort into us trying to make us better guitarrists. In my case I'm starting a difficult journey. I'm starting to notice how hard it is to play slow and in time.

This has been my guitar life:

1) I learned some chords
2) Then I learned some solos
3) Then I though, gosh! I can play whatever and started to play some songs belonging to some of my guitar gods.
4) I realized something was not right. I wasn't able to do what my guitar gods do. I thought needed to put more time to improve
5) Beside all the time I put into playing guitar I wasn't improving too much. I gave up...
6) 3 or 4 months later I pickup guitar again and back to number 4 smile.gif.

This has been me, as a guitarrist for the last 20 years. Don't know why, but some of my friends that started at the same time I did to play guitar have developed an amazing technique. But in my case I didn't. Perhaps I lost focus, not sure.

And now here I am, playing one note per beat at 80 bpm smile.gif. It may seem very basic but man, playing slow and in time is not easy.

Sure you are wondering why I'm telling you this story. I'm doing it because I just want to know if others feel like me. And of course encourage all that are in the same boat I am to do not give up. As Todd says, sometimes you have to slow down to be able to speed up wink.gif.

What do you think guys?

Cheers!
17 Nov 2020
Hi,

I am thinking about renewing some of my gear. I have an old valvestate 100 that is almost dying and was wondering what would be better, buy another combo amp or just go for Studio monitors with a Virtual amp (Stltone in my case).

What do you think guys? Experiences?

P.D. I do not play stage and it is not a problem to plug into my interface instead of my real amp.

Cheers!
16 Nov 2020
Hi guys,

Just wanted to let you know that StlTones has all their products at a 50% disccount. If you were interested in any of these, this is the right time to get.

I just got a year of AmpHub for 80$.

Cheers!
7 Nov 2020
Hi!,

I have been reading a lot this week about available virtual amps and have tested some. Well, as I have learnt virtual amps are very subjective and different people like differnt v. amps.

The thing is that I have come across IR's today. They seem to be around for a lot of years now but I never heard of them. so, it seems that throuh IR's one can capture the sound of a full rig in a really perfect way and this is great.

All this leads me to one question. Why use v. amps over just IR's? It seems IR's ussually sound better because there's no synthesis involved, just sampling. I understand that when you use an IR you get the full rig and no customization can be done in the middle (Like adding or removing a pedal). You can only process the output signal comming from the IR. But why do that if you get the full rig sound you were looking for?

As an example, I love dimebag tone, I have seen some awesome FREE IR's that replicate the sound of some of pantera records. Wouldn't this be enough to ditch all virtual amps around trying to emulate dimebag sound?

What do you think?

Cheers!
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