btw, skunky, isn't this whole "modeler vs. tube amp for recording" debate kyna pointless when you settle on 'inspiration' as the reason why guitarists should use tube amps vs. modelers in a studio? it's like throwing a very subjective variable like "love" into a mathematical formula. i was hoping you geeks stick to the tech-talk and let ignorant romantics like me say, "At the end of the day, kanya kanya lang yan!"
I just said there is a difference, and the difference matters to some, and to others it may be killing an ant with a sledge hammer so he uses a POD or anything of similar application.
It's just that some haven't experienced the difference yet through A/Bing. Opo, kanya-kanya lang yan just like how we have different religions, but sometimes, you got to explain "kung bakit para sa akin, ganito ang pananampalataya ko..."
I just want to cry out loud for the people who have come to me na tinikom ang bibig ng engineer na sinabi ok lang ang POD kung amp ang hinahanap niya. (And for the case of drummers, drum replacement by force when they wanted effective miking and tuning.)
Delta, since may experience ka naman sa PODXT and Tonelab, are you honest enough to say there is no difference? And that the difference does not affect you at all?
If you watch the Bogner/Line 6 interview with Reinhold, it is very implicitly stated there that there is a difference between digital emulations and tubes. Kaya nga "the ultimate [marriage]..."
Now going back to your "love" as part of a mathematical formula, in all honesty, YES IT IS PART OF THE EQUATION, BY A HUGE AMOUNT. Why? Because artists want to be involved in the art they make, and sometimes, when engineers force them to do things they do not want (knowing some Pinoys are very shy by nature) they can feel manipulated into using something that really can't do the job. I would gladly give a guitarplayer a DI box and software or maybe a POD if that is what he
reallywants and
really needs, but not to steer him away from using an amp if that is what the production calls for. Have you tried using guitar feedback at different angles with a POD? Have you tried pinch harmonics with a POD? And in most cases so far, majority still prefer the amp. Maybe because I own a modular amp which technically, is a modelling amp too, only that you're using real tubes. But at that, I still cannot say my tone palette is as broad so I look forward to the L6 Bogner Spider Valve.