So I'm having a wrestling match within. The purist in me wrote my iRant about amp modelling vs. recording a live or live-like sound. The purist in me also thinks along the lines that if you record something with a certain sound, that same sound should be reproducible with a live amp without depending on sound engineers to tweak buttons & knobs & effect settings. The gizmoid drooler in me is now taking a deeper ponderance into things of Pod XT. Not the Pro or the Live model. The regular kidney shaped Pod XT. After writing my iRant nephew Jim mentioned he had a Pod XT Pro. Out of curiousity I went about the netlands & found some .mp3 sound clips of peoples patches they use for Pod XT. Those are at:
http://www.project80s.com/podxt/podclips_sounds.htm
http://www.robtognoni.com/line6.htm
There are some good sounding patches out there.
Jim also mentioned that Weezer toured & played their instruments through their Pod stuff & had no amps on stage. I have burned into my brain images of concerts where a band is overshadowed by stacks o' amps & guitar dudes going up to their amps with their guitars & finding that sweet feedback spot...I almost want to say that to have no amps for a live show is just darned wrong. But who am I to criticize right. It all falls back onto what the player & band think sounds good & fits their band & image & such. These days if plugging into an orange & then running that into a mixing board works for ya in the studio & on stage then go for it.
I'll be in my iCorner now.
- iMe
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
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1) Find a unique sound.
2) Find a unique playing style.
3) Find a unique progression of notes (riffs).
People will stand in line to hear you.
There's a description of the weezer setup here:
http://www.weezer.com/info/equipment/r_01h.html
Also, funny you should mention plugging into an orange... one of the big amp brands right now is Orange (http://www.orangeamps.com/) - they are really high end and I've seen a lot of bands use them in studios but use different amps on tour. I think they are mostly known for their distortion - a lot of their artists are of the new-style punk/emo genre. They are uber expensive though!
I like the flexibility my Line 6 gives me. But I don't like the fact that I have to tweak knobs for a long time to get a great sound, whereas my friend spends 20 seconds on his Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier and gets the sound he wants.
If you wanna get really crazy, check out the Line 6 variax guitar line - it's a guitar that models the sounds of other guitars!
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