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No, this isn't a SPAM post although you can currently buy these at 50% off from MF, GC or Amazon ($33.99).
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCG102.aspx
The hardware itself is very basic- I think I am most impressed with the software that comes with it- a very limited version of Native Instruments Guitar Rig. You get your choice of the AC-30, Plexi and Twin Reverb amp models. You can demo all 3 of them, which means it stops after 30 minutes and you can't save presets. I had thought that the 30 minute limit was forever, but you just need to exit the program and restart it to play for another 30 minutes.
I was sure that I'd want the Twin Reverb rig but I wasn't crazy about the clean tones- practically all of the presets were distorted and did not clean up well. The Plexi rig was the fanciest with 16 knobs and 1 switch. It was the AC-30 rig that I liked the most, with a version of the Vox Treble Boost ahead of the preamp, along with reverb and tremolo- 32 presets.
There is a "tape recorder" function that you can use to record your playing, before or after all of the effects and modeling, or to play back pre-recorded backing tracks to play along with. I have never had so much fun playing guitar through headphones! I have never liked to use headphones with any of the multi-processors I've tried- I never liked the presets which were usually aimed towards arena rock, and editing them didn't really help.
Native Instruments has a free Guitar Rig 5 Player which gives you a small rig to keep plus 30 minute demo access to a whole bunch more from their Guitar Rig 5 software.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : HOME | HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR MUSICIANS, PRODUCERS, DJS, GUITAR AND BASS PLAYERS
With all of the threads about the ultimate bedroom guitar amp I'd suggest that someone look into this (for $33!). FWIW I had checked out the $39 Vox AmpPlugs which plug into your guitar and have a headphone jack. None of the 3 models I tried had any decent clean sounds, although the AC-30 one came the closest. (Turning down the gain helped, but then that would reduce the maximum overall volume.) I had also tried using the $250 Korg Pandora 5 but was disappointed with the quality of the clean sounds. Once you turned off all of the effects there really wasn't much of anything left.
Steve Ahola
http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCG102.aspx
The hardware itself is very basic- I think I am most impressed with the software that comes with it- a very limited version of Native Instruments Guitar Rig. You get your choice of the AC-30, Plexi and Twin Reverb amp models. You can demo all 3 of them, which means it stops after 30 minutes and you can't save presets. I had thought that the 30 minute limit was forever, but you just need to exit the program and restart it to play for another 30 minutes.
I was sure that I'd want the Twin Reverb rig but I wasn't crazy about the clean tones- practically all of the presets were distorted and did not clean up well. The Plexi rig was the fanciest with 16 knobs and 1 switch. It was the AC-30 rig that I liked the most, with a version of the Vox Treble Boost ahead of the preamp, along with reverb and tremolo- 32 presets.
There is a "tape recorder" function that you can use to record your playing, before or after all of the effects and modeling, or to play back pre-recorded backing tracks to play along with. I have never had so much fun playing guitar through headphones! I have never liked to use headphones with any of the multi-processors I've tried- I never liked the presets which were usually aimed towards arena rock, and editing them didn't really help.
Native Instruments has a free Guitar Rig 5 Player which gives you a small rig to keep plus 30 minute demo access to a whole bunch more from their Guitar Rig 5 software.
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : HOME | HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE FOR MUSICIANS, PRODUCERS, DJS, GUITAR AND BASS PLAYERS
With all of the threads about the ultimate bedroom guitar amp I'd suggest that someone look into this (for $33!). FWIW I had checked out the $39 Vox AmpPlugs which plug into your guitar and have a headphone jack. None of the 3 models I tried had any decent clean sounds, although the AC-30 one came the closest. (Turning down the gain helped, but then that would reduce the maximum overall volume.) I had also tried using the $250 Korg Pandora 5 but was disappointed with the quality of the clean sounds. Once you turned off all of the effects there really wasn't much of anything left.
Steve Ahola
I hear you on the pain of not being able to play Flac or Ogg Vorbis. And one of the iPhones (can't remember which) was famous for having a crap antenna. It was a tiny thing stuffed into a corner of the metal case, so as not to spoil the sleek lines of the phone. Apple then simply fiddled the signal strength display to make it look like the antenna worked better than it did.
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