Modeling amps, was Re: [bomp] Zal Yanovsky's guitar

[Blair Buscareno <blairb@xxxxxxx>]

Career Records wrote:
> Modeling Amp? c'mon, you're kidding aren't you? One of the local guitar slinger
> dudes was over recording once. He had an AC30 which was sounding pretty good.
> He then said, I got this Pod I want to use instead. We listened to him struggle
> for an hour to try to get a sound, and he never did. We made him plug back into
> the Vox.
>
>   

Mike F. has already related his opinion of modeling amps to me in no 
uncertain terms.  (He's with Dave & Ron.)  But I'd *still* like to try 
one.  I don't really care one way or the other whether or not they sound 
like what they claim to be; I'd be more interested in whether I liked 
what those sounds *are* in and of themselves.  Would I like those sounds 
or not?  I have no idea!

My problem is that I can't really go to Guitar Center (or wherever) and 
try them, unless I want to lug my Yamaha YC-20 (or the heavier YC-30) 
combo organ along with me.  (Thanks, but bringing it out on gigs is 
rough enough.)  I *could* bring a lighter organ (like the Wurlitzer 
7300), but I want to check these things out with what I'm likely to be 
playing.  (And for those of you who know I also have Farfisa and Vox 
organs, the answer is, "Yes, I prefer the Yamaha combos.")

Dave's report on the reverb, however, may be enough to kill off my 
thoughts about it.  Right now, I play both organs through a beat-up 
silver face Twin Reverb.  And I *always* crank the reverb way up.  Even 
when I was playing through a solid state Peavey keyboard amp, I always 
wanted the reverb up.  Once I started playing through that Twin, 
though... Yum!!!  Yeah, you guys are VERY right about tube amps.  I'm in 
love with the way the organ sounds through it.  I actually *do* have 
another beat-up silver face Twin, however, which I'm not as into... It 
distorts too easily.  That's fine by you guitarists, I know, but not 
*me*!  I also recently picked up a Music Man 212 130 that I like.  It's 
better than the one Twin, but not as good as the other (for what I'm doing.)

The only other amp I have that I really *love* to play through - and I 
really only like playing the YC-30 through it, not the YC-20 - is an 
Acoustic 160 tube head through an Acoustic 464 cabinet.


- Blair

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