08-22-2021, 04:07 PM
(08-22-2021, 02:50 AM)Nayrb Wrote: 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.
Revalver is still around! I even have it installed, and it has a custom shop thing just like Amplitube, though I would hesitate to buy anything for a piece of software that doesn't appear to have been updated since 2016. Revalver was in fact the first software amp sim I ever used back in 2002. My latency was off the charts on the system I had back then, live playing was out of the question, but I monitored through a real amp while recording the second output of the preamp I was using (Zoom Valve DSP 9150) and added a nice cab with Revalver.
You're right, Peavey's always been kind of an underdog when it comes to software. Probably because they're more devoted to the hardware side of things and Revalver has never gotten the attention and development funding it needs to compete with the offerings from more software-centric brands.