Love Your Tone
1) Line 6 Variax Line 6 took their traditional modeling technology, and applied to guitars. This allowed one guitar to produces the tones from multiple classic guitars, along with some extras like acoustics and sitars. 2) Sim One XT-1 Using IR technology, the XT-1 is a pedal that will produce the sound of different guitars,…Read More
Acoustic IRs are a great way do get studio acoustic sounds in a live environment. Depending on your use case, you can improve an existing acoustic sound, get a piezo sound to sound like a mic’d acoustic, or even use magnetic pickups on an electric guitar to simulate an acoustic. Here are some of the…Read More
Impulse Responses have been making big waves in recent years. Now they’ve finally started to make their way into the compact pedal format, making realistic speaker simulation available to smaller pedalboards and lighter budgets. Here are some of the latest and greatest: 1) Hotone Omni IR Just release from Hotone, they’ve shrunk down their IR…Read More
For a long time, acoustic players have struggled when trying to amplify the natural sound of their acoustic guitar live. Simple EQ or compression, never seemed enough to recreate the warm natural tones of their instrument. Direct recording of electric guitars took a big leap forward when guitarists and sound engineers started applying Impulse Responses…Read More
1) BluGuitar BluBox 2) Torpedo C.A.B. 3) Neunaber Iconoclast 4) Atomic Ampli-Firebox 5) AMT “Pangaea” CP-100 6) Digitech CabDryVR 7) CFI Cabzeus 8) Torpedo Wall Of Sound 9) Analog Solutions Hughes Kettner Readbox, DI’s from Palmer, Mooer, JOYO. 10) Built In Solutions A staple of many beginner and practice amps, this feature is starting to…Read More
Another theme from NAMM this year was higher quality speaker sims and other direct solutions. 1) Blu Guitar Blubox The Blubox is a studio quality impulse response speaker sim in a small easy to use package. 2) Atomic Ampli-Firebox Atomic bring their excellent modelling to a small tiny package with the Ampli-Firebox 3) Mooer Preamp…Read More