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?
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Depends on what home is.
You have 5 acres, single family home, live alone? I got recs.
You in a bedroom in a 2 br apartment in an apartment complex? My previous recommendations are useless. I have new recs.
For either scenario, your sweet spot will be personal, not empirical.
Alone in flat with 30m2 living room. I dont want to annoy neighbor so 80dB is my target to play during day.
As for now the amp sim with the most feeling i found are the open source NAM ones in Genome.
For the cabinet IR, Genome is not that grrat either but far from the worse. GGD IRs are fine so far.
For linux users, tonelib is maybe the software for guitar players. Amp sims are a bit dry however.
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.
I have a Helix LT. Works great. If I was buying something right now, I’d get a Quad Cortex.
If you’re looking for free stuff, I’d try out the open source AI-based amp sim. I played around with it and it sounds fantastic.
Feedback is about volume. You can get an amp sim to feed back if its being played loud enough. FRFR speakers work well for this.
The beauty of all this is that it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be. I tend to lean on the simple side, if you’re missing the hotrod just get another hotrod. simple.
also bedroom level is a variable term, a 40w fender would blow my damn windows out and get the cops called.
Yes. That’s why i ask advice about power attenuator. It’s not possible to play a hot rod softly. Either the sound is muffled or loud.
Check the fryette power station… And make your choice for a preamp or any head / combo / amp Sim module
With this piece of gear you should be able to handle any amp at your desired level…
You also should be able to move at the opposite direction.
To make a small tube combo amp sound huge :)
Ok. I’ll maybe start with the torpedo that is 10x cheaper and if iit fits but has painful drawbacks reconsider the fryette.
