bongo_x wrote:I was a the MOTU site looking at DP7.
My first impression; What the hell is that guitar that guy is playing in the amp sim videos? Seriously, What the heck? Wonder what it sounds like with a real guitar? If you go to the last couple videos there's a different guy playing something that's more like a real guitar. Apparently there are no guitar stores around there.
I think we're splitting hairs a bit. I don't kow why you're ripping on the guitars. I mean I have some nice guitars, but your post comes off as unnecessarily mocking and denigrating. I have a very expensive custom made USA Dean with the serial number hand-painted on the back of the headstock. It's also signed by Dean Zelinsky himself. I also have a "cheap" $1000 imported Dean Razorback V. Sometimes I like playing the cheapo better dependng on the song. As far as the MOTU videos go, I don't know what the first guitar is. Offhand, why it looks like what is probably a mid-range solid body electric with a single bridge pickup. I don't recognize the fret markers. The second one looks like it might be a PRS perhaps... a "real" guitar possibly. They could have used a fake guitar and snuck it by me though. It looked real.
I mean maybe I'm just a blithering idiot and been sleeping for the 30+ years I've played guitar, but given a certain minimum quality, the guitars I saw in the video aren't going to make the amp modeling sound like crap. The
amp modeling itself will do that.
And solid bodies, given certain basic minimum standards and decent pickups are going to sound "okay" unless they are COMPLETE laminated "layer cake" garbage. Given it's audio from a Quick Time video of amp modeling, I don't know necessarily what sort of improvement we would pick out between the guitars used and a basic Les Paul Standard, American Strat, or a [Insert Your Favorite Here]. I'm thinking it won't be so pronounced between those "fake" guitars and your "real" guitar of choice. Look at it this way: if the guitars on the video are crap, then it should sound just that much better, right?
Personally, I'll continue to use my amp which still SMOKES any amp modeler I've heard to date and for those times I'm just trackng scratch tracks, I'll use my PodXT. I just am not the target demographic for guitar amp plug-ins. I do think however that the analog chorus looks like something I could get into for guitar tracks once they're recorded. The distortion pedals and fuzz mean nothing to me personally. I would have loved to see more time domain stuff like the Electric Mistress flanger, a tape echo (Space Echo, Echoplex), or even an emulation of an MXR Phase 90.
