Nice for gear sluts

[Sock Puppet]

- And their pimps.

I'd known about guitar rig for a while but browsing the NI website just now I found out just how versatile their Rig Kontroll thing was:

http://www.native-instruments.com/in...igcontrol3&L=1

I'm not a particular fan of DSP - I like clean... to me the DSP always robs the sound of expression. Having said that, I've heard a lot of sounds from this and it's ilk that have impressed me - it's just not for me that's all.

I won't be buying a Rig Kontroll though, the next new toy is a MIDI/WIDI control surface which I ordered for myself for my birthday (that was the justification . It came the next day but the couriers had plied their trade literally and there was what felt like a kilo of metal rods scraping about inside.

So I'm still waiting for the replacement.

It was one of these :

http://www.millennium-music.co.uk/ho...RD+CONTROLLERS

Cheers,

S.

[David Schwab]

I played in a band with a guy that had GuitarRig running on a PowerBook, with the foot controller and all. He also had a Line 6 Variaxe and a floor Pod thing.

He played the whole thing through a nice powered JBL PA cab, with a 15 and a horn.

He got good tones, but he always sounded in the background.. and sort of blurry and diffuse. No matter how loud he was, I couldn't hear what he was playing.

I'm guessing the transients and headroom just aren't there.

I use some DSP amp modelers, both software and hardware when recording, and for that they work great.