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i know this has something to do with each amp's feature set, but it's jarring as hell just clicking through when one amp is inaudible and the other makes your ears bleed. so that complicated a comparison, but i didn't get the impression they were that different.Īnd amplitube's maddening gain staging is alive and well in a5. Today in bugs: i can't turn off the chorus on the dime 120 and i can't turn it on in the stock 120. i don't think i can put another amp in front of it, but i can run a second one with it. my first time, so i'm not sure what they do, what they sound like and stuff. I don't get the leslies yet, but it's sort of neat.
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the vox model in amp room, specifically, so that's interesting. it sounds exactly like a vox (until a certain point, since it has way more gain). and i figured out why i like the new orange custom 50 so much. they even nailed that weird metallic reverb on the stock model. they actually sound like 120s now, which is nice. but that amp is so tweakable it's annoying. aside from the fenders, the mesa mark iii does a decent fender impression. Today's discoveries were mainly in the clean department. i don't know how authentic these are as i'm not a fender guy, but they certainly read as "fender", more so than things i've tried in the past. at any rate, there's at least one or two blackfaces i'll take over my current amp room one, so i'm coming out ahead here. haven't dug through every tweed just yet, but some are neat. of course, it's a much newer model, and that might play into it. it has it's own thing the others can't approximate. leaning toward the super reverb as helpfully suggested above. both mics dead center is still the default to make them work, but not all of them need that treatment. and these are some of the first i've found that sound good or better with their own cabs, which is nice. a princeton on 10 with an eq on 10 in front of it still won't distort, which strikes me as perhaps dubious, but that's fine. now the princeton and the deluxe and twin are all different. they were all sort of the same thing before, at least the fender one. they're better! the bigger difference is that they kinda sound a bit different now. Inspired by a few of you, i decided to take another spin through the fenders. i've been poking around their forums for the last month or so in the leadup to a5. even "amplitube" in a cute approximation of the logo of the amp being modeled would have been better.Ĭlick to expand.average, not target. i'm just tired at looking at it, especially on an otherwise decent looking amp. this was the perfect time to address that and they didn't. this normally wouldn't be a huge issue, but it's literally on every other amp. make the british collection and the fender collection the new baseline.Īnd now for the most super important criticism of all time: their ****ing logo sucks. i'm sure they'll say it was a concession to older users and old projects, but it's garbage that should have been purged. they really ought to have cleared out the trash, or at least let us hide them. no sense in struggling with the generic british lead whatever or hendrix gold, etc when you can just slap on the friedman or bogner and be done with it instantly. long story short, if it was trash in a4, it's still trash in a5. i could see it working for warmer tones, or weirder, funky effecty type specialty sounds, but as my bread and butter sounds? not seeing it yet.Īnd i took a brief tour through some of the older amps. but that's a lot of effort to massage them into a workable tone, when i can just slap a different ir on there and be done with it. it'll be much easier to use since you won't have to scroll through mountains of crap to find the things you like.Īs for the cabs maybe if i used two or more at the same time, and got the rack gear to massage it into shape, i'd get some tones i'd be pleased with.
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if each amp is like $30 and you already have good third party irs, you could pick up two or three decent amps and call it a day. you can't really pick and choose the good stuff unless you do it through the custom shop, which will add up quick, but still might not be a horrible idea, especially if you already have other sims. there is some worthy amps and effects, but they are scattered over all the collections. there isn't much i'd recommend at the lower tiers. hell, i'm a max guy and i still don't know what i'm going to do. The trouble, as far as i can tell, is that i don't see a clear path for someone who isn't somewhat invested in amplitube already. don't blame them sort of jealous, really. they found something that works for them and they stuck with it. partisanship aside, the average amplitube 4 user probably isn't the sort of person to have a whole bunch of other sims, or keeps up with the latest and greatest. they are getting an improved version of something they already loved.