Hi guitar home players,
I’m looking for a setup to play at home with high quality sound and feel.
I first went with home monitoring (adam A8H) + amp sims on computer. The sound tone can be right for bedroom level playing but the feeling is not as good as I would.
I miss the fender headroom on my real hotrod and the crazy harmonics and feedback loop on a real high gain amp.
I would like advice from people who have bought or tested more than I.
1/Is kemper, neural dsp and other expensive produxt deliver more feeling than let say the TwoNotes Genome which is free to test ?
2/What about having real amps + loadbox? Is that better than amp sims for bedroom level or worse? From recordings on youtube it’s sometimes hard to tell but youtubers are just sellers nowadays…
3/What about having a larger speaker cabinet like a 2x12 for bedroom sound level at home. I expect the feeling could be different than the stereo 8" well positionned at ear height I have. Worse or better if anyone has both setups?
Before paying a bunch for plugins, you may consider taking a look at Neural Amp Modeler/ and the NAM Universal plugins.
It’s free, and I believe an open source amp profiler. People upload profiles of their own gear on sites like Tonehunt.
It’s a little bit finicky to get the levels right with your interface, and overall less user friendly than the paid plugins, but when you do find some good settings it’s pretty nice overall. You can stack overdrive profiles with amp profiles, and do all kinds of crazy combinations. Quality of profiles is dependent upon the profile creator’s setup.