08-22-2021, 02:50 AM
(08-17-2021, 05:56 AM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: The EVH amps are monsters. Never played one myself but I've heard them being demoed and they sound really great. Oddly enough, the various 5150 sims I've tried leave a lot to be desired. The TSE X50 2.0 for example won a lot of praise when it came out but it never really clicked with me. It's not a bad sim, I just couldn't get any tones I was really happy with out of it. So clearly modeling isn't 100% there yet. Still, I will take imperfect simulations over a bulky, expensive, fragile, high-maintenance and power hungry piece of hardware any day of the week, no matter how good it sounds.
I think I agree. I love modelling and what it can do, but I also like being able to lay back on a couch or something and just play. I often play without an amp now for that very reason.
I remember trying Peavey's Revalver plugin a while back, and it was intense. I seem to remember it being pretty awesome for heavy tones. Not sure what happened to it, really. I feel like Peavey makes awesome stuff, then gets bowled over by somehow bigger names in the industry and no one ever hears about their stuff again. I mean, who better to model the 5150 than the makers of the 5150? But you're right, other makers just don't seem to get it quite right in the modelling realm, though what they do is still pretty cool. I think it's usually a combination of things like power amps, cab sims, and such. I don't think any "in the box" option is representative of what it can do without some tweaking and such. Every really good rig of that type has all been put together by the same guy, and it's usually a sort of erudite Frankenstein setup. One day I'll pick my favorite and copy it and see how it goes.