Wow, lots to think about. Thanks for the pointers everyone, I have a bunch of learning to do. I'll evaluate as many of those helper programs as possible and figure out what I'll use for the recording. It would be nice just to Use Sonar on a laptop if it would do the trrick.

Imagine a '54 Goldtop playing through a '55 Fender Deluxe. Nope, it sounds better than that. Or this rig:

One thing you might try is making some impulses of the fancy amps and speakers... and then you can run them thru Perfect Space and have "modeled" amps.

You can search out Impulse Response and how to make your own.

It's a lot more simple than assembling a whole library.

best regards,
mike

To the OP : Bring gear to my house !!

Sample robot can help you ...

Kreative


You might want to check out a search on autosamplers like these  http://www.redmatica.com/Redmatica/AutoSampler.html

yes IF you own a mac ;-)

I do own extreme sample convertor.. it doesn't seem to do a through job as the other thing.. and well as nice as it is, could do with a bit of an update.. I only bought it coz it was on sale.. full price I wouldn't have ages ago.