For all the guitar sim banter going around....

...who here is actually is a tried and true guitarist that has mid/high grade amp gear? I've been playing for a long time (Longer than Justin Beiber's been alive) and have nice guitars and 2 nice real rigs.
So for those "real" guitarists... state your gear and your amp sim preference(you can name a few in pecking order if you like) and style of music.

Gear:

Rig#1: Ada MP1/Quadraverb/3630 Compressor/MosValve 500w/MXR Overdrive Pedal/Dimebag Wah
Rig#2: Slightly modded JCM800/4x12 Cabinet/DimeBag Wah/Boss Digital Delay

Guitars: Carvin TL60 with Duncan pickups, stock '93 Les Paul Standard, Charvel Fusion Deluxe w/DiMarzio SuperDistortion, Taylor 310CE and Ovation acoustics

Amp sim of choice: GR5, AcmeBarGig, AmpliTube3, TH2

Style: Sort of Days of the New/Vertical Horizon/Depeche Mode/King's X in a Vita Mix 

Guitars - Several  R8 and R9 Les Pauls, class 5 Les Pauls, a couple strats, teles, EDS-1275, ES335, an Ibanez Jem (for the bar) and a PRS Custom 22.  For Acoustics - Guild D-55 6 string, Guild JF 65 12 string, a Ramirez 4NCWE classical and an Ovation mandolin.

Amps:  Various 100 watt Marshalls:  '68 Marshall Plexi, Marshall Jubilee, Marshall JCM 800 2210 & a Vintage Modern running through 2 Marshall 1960B cabinets w/ Celestion Vintage 30s.

Effects - Primarily a TC Electronics G-System, Dunlop 535Q wah. 

Favorite Amp Sim - I don't use any amp sims for recording.  To me, they're great for doing demos and noodling around, but they just don't capture the organic nature of a good tube amp.  That said, I have (and enjoy) Guitar Rig, Overloud, Waves GTR3.5 and am considering Scuffham S Gear. 

Style - Usually a range from acoustic singer songwriter stuff to bluesy / 70's rockish stuff. 

Guitars: Fender Strat Jeff Beck signature, 
Fender tele w/B-bender, 
'79 Gibson Les Paul, Epiphone G-1275.
Amps: 
'64 Fender Super Reverb, 
Marshall 2266 VintageModern with 1936 vintage cab, 

Hughes & Kettner Tubemeister
Peavey Classic 30

I've got guitarrig 4, but after I got the Tubemeister I prefer the redbox direct out. I also spilt the signal so I can reamp at a later stage with other amps

You guys need to have audio links to your playing to hear what you're bragging about.
(or not in the case of timidi!)

Been playing for around 40 years, I guess.....
I play a stock '78 Les Paul Standard, a Tele of unknown vintage (not that old), and a Yamaha Pacifica Tele copy I found in a pawn shop for $35 that sounds fantastic and plays great.

I've had every amp rig known to man, it seems; Marshalls, Mesa-Boogies, Rack rigs (ADA, etc.) but in the last few years I've gone back to using a small combo amp and just sticking an SM57 in front of it.
Right now my weapon of choice is a Fender Hot Rod DeVille 2X12, great tone and my back doesn't hurt after the gig. Easy to record, too.

Amp sims? Guitar Rig 5 and OverLoud but I rarely use 'em, except sometimes for bass.

Experience: been playing for 44 years

Guitars: Gibson SG (1969) .... Fender Tele (modern)..... Taylor 314...... Ibanez cutaway acoustic/electric

Amps:  Mesa Boogie Studio 22 watt....... POD 2

Amp sims: No Thank You..... I prefer the ones above. I have about 4 sims in the DAW but don't use them.

Style: what ever trips my trigger on a given day.... country, jazz, rock..... it's all good.

  I'll bet that MP1 is no youngster either.

Been playing about 25 years or so. Have a small collection of Charvels and Jacksons ranging from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Solid guitars with good set-ups and electronics. Have sold the amps a long time ago as I don't play live and don't rehearse where I live. Use borrowed gear or what is supplied at the rooms when I actually bother to travel to rehearse anymore.

I use Amplitube 3 with Recabinet 3 as my ampsim combination of choice. Have tried several other things and these work best for me. Recabinet is nice because I don't have to manually sort through thousands of impulse responses that I got from Redwirez (?) anymore. Amplitube handles a wide variety of styles for me and it does "heavy" tones convincingly (to my ears at least). It also does the clean tones decently, although I have heard a couple of others that I wish that I could afford to have around to play with. Or I could just buy the Amplitube Fender Collection.

Play weird rock and metal music mainly with some other more drifting and dreamy stuff as well. Not posting any links to any of my older material though as I prefer to keep a low (non-existent) profile currently. I do plan to post some songs to the sub-forum here once I finish some things up using X1d Expanded.

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...who here is actually is a tried and true guitarist that has mid/high grade amp gear? I've been playing for a long time (Longer than Justin Beiber's been alive) and have nice guitars and 2 nice real rigs.
So for those "real" guitarists... state your gear and your amp sim preference(you can name a few in pecking order if you like) and style of music.

Gear:

Rig#1: Ada MP1/Quadraverb/3630 Compressor/MosValve 500w/MXR Overdrive Pedal/Dimebag Wah
Rig#2: Slightly modded JCM800/4x12 Cabinet/DimeBag Wah/Boss Digital Delay

Guitars: Carvin TL60 with Duncan pickups, stock '93 Les Paul Standard, Charvel Fusion Deluxe w/DiMarzio SuperDistortion, Taylor 310CE and Ovation acoustics

Amp sim of choice: GR5, AcmeBarGig, AmpliTube3, TH2

Style: Sort of Days of the New/Vertical Horizon/Depeche Mode/King's X in a Vita Mix 

I also have an ADA MP(2) and QuadraVerb :-)


Amp: Carvin V3
Guitars: Carvin CT4M, Carvin DC127 (w/active electronics), Martin HD28
Amp Sim of Choice: Hmmmm. I haven't bonded with any of the amp sims I have used (Amplitube, GR4, TH2, AcmeBarGig, S-Gear). If I had to pick one, it would be AcmeBarGig for its heavy sounds
Style: I like bits of all styles of music

timidi


Gear:
Silvertone

Guitar:
Silvertone

AmpSim
Ronco deluxe

Style:
Sort of 'Peter Paul and Mary' meets Joe Pass

A cross over artist. How versatile.

Suddenly I'm thinking back to the time in my youth when I wanted to buy the Moog guitar synthesizer at Mahoneys here in Vegas. It's all in the  playing.
P.S. You have to play the Amp too.

The only problem I have with guitar amp sims is they all seem to be aimed at metal sounding guitars. I have yet to find one that just changes a Les Paul to a Strat.  Or vice versa.

   Totally in the box guy hear. I've been playing guitar since I was 11 and I'll be 55 in a few months. My best ax is a PRS Artist II. I have a Marshall Valvestate S80 amp. I can't remember the last time I used it.
   With Guitar Rig 5 Pro I have pretty much any amp,cab,effect or mic that I want and I can change after the fact if I don't like it. For me personally, the convenience factor far outweighs the benefit of recording the one amp that I own. Then again.I've never considered myself a tone freak
   There is a link to my souncloud stuff in my signature. The track "Altered Light" was done without any mics. I played the guitar and bass direct injected. The synth and drums are VSTIs . I recorded it the week I got NI Komplete 8.
    

Very cool stuff and sounds....

I have a promo video for my album that has features the gear listed below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxFDApEneDg  


You can see me play on video YouTube channel here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/PeterMatuchniak/videos 
Here's the gear....


Guitars:
- Godin Guitar LGXT
- Fender Strat with GK2 pickup
- Hohner "Steinberg" headless

Pedals
- Roland VG-99 with foot pedal
- my iPad!

Amp:
- Carvin with stereo speaker setup

Sims:
- TH2, Amplitube, anything else Cakewalk has bundled, etc. 

- I'll try, and have used, anything and everything (whether amp sim or not) but prefer my VG-99 pedals over and above anything else 



>> Synkroton:  Been playing since 1979 and I'm still crap. 

LMAO!  Me too, but it's a more a question of if you can move people and enjoy yourself (first and foremost).  If was just about the playing then we'd not be using DAWs anyway....

Gear-

Marshall 50watt lead (late 60s, retired).
Orange ODR120 (70s, retired) - both far too old, far too heavy and far too loud for sense. And haul around 4x12s? My 51 year old back says NO! I don't even own a 4x12 any more.
Orange Tiny Terror + 1x12" Celestion Century Vintage speaker
Blackheart Killer Ant + 1x10" Celestion Greenback or 10" Jensen ceramic.
Epiphone Valve Junior (mod with NOS Phillips JAN valves, 8" modern Jensen speaker)

fx - I seem to prefer analogue fx, despite the noise, cost and lack of storable presets that goes with analogue gear. I tend to use what I think will work with what I'm playing, and quite a bit of the time it's just guitar-reverb-amp, but for the more processed sort of things:

EHX HOG,
Deluxe Electric Mistress (old style),
1979 Jen Crybaby Super,
MXR dist+ (2011),
EHX Q-tron+,
assorted digital delays (usually a new TC ELectronic toneprint one),
MXR analogue delay,
MXR Phase 90 (modern script logo one, I did have an 80s one but it broke),
EHX NanoStone (replacement for much missed late 70s/early 80s Small Stone, RIP).
Fender '63 Reissue valve reverb tank,
T-Rex Tremster,
Barber Trifecta,
MXR and Keeley compressors,
Boss NS2 noise gate,

Plus, lying about the place in case, Blackstar HT-Dual, Dunlop Octave Fuzz, EHX Nano-muff,  Voodoo Lab chorus, late 70s Big Muff, early 90s RAT, Morley Bad Horsie II, Boss DD-20, and there's been other pedals come and go as well. All of which makes me think that I've bought way too many pedals over the last 35 years.....

I've also at owned other Marshall amps (not the most reliable amp manufacturer in the world in my opinion/experience), Laney amps, Fender amps and solid state/hybrid amps. Nowadays I like low powered lightweight amps I can crank a bit.

Decent quality guitars:
2007(?) Fender Lite Ash Tele (cheap, a bit rough, but sounds good);
199? Gibson ES135 mk1;
200? Mexican Strat with Lace sensors, Callahan hardware and other mods;
1982ish Telecaster (retired);
2008 Gibson SG special;
1961 Gibson Les Paul Junior (retired - very worn and way beyond repair/refretting, unfortunately, not to mention taking an old P90 pickup near computers or lighting dimmers.....BUZZ...HUM-M-M-M....BUZZ....).
Bennet 8-string lap-steel.
There's been one or two best forgotten "copy" guitars as well plus a couple of cheap acoustics.

Amp sims - preferably a small valve amp+SM57, otherwise Sansamp character series Blonde and British plus fx pedals. I've never managed to feel comfortable with digital "modelling". It obviously works very well for many people, but I just can't seem to get a good sound from emulators - they just don't feel right to me. Even when the amps are something like (and the TH2 amps with X2 aren't bad at all), the emulated fx generally don't seem quite right - possibly because digital fx emulations aren't as noisy as the real things :-/

Style? Quite varied over the years - Hawkwind/System 7 influenced electronica/psychedelia, Wilko Johnson-ish r'n'b, traditional English folk stuff, Elmore James style blues, even played a bit of surf and Western Swing at various times. Probably simplest to say I don't play metal, I'm not a shredder and I've never quite seen the point in jazz :-)