I would love to see a screenprint showing this guy actually uses Sonar. I would be shocked.

Let it go Mike, it's the internet.

Sanderxpander
I'll approach it from a different angle; I think the ProChannel models the consoles about as accurately as it is useful to do so.

Well put.
 
Me, I make records. I like to have good tools to use while making records. How precisely tool A is like tool B, I really don't care about.

CakeAlexS
@LA2A perhaps you would be interested in one of these, worth the money I would get out your credit card now:
http://www.theabsolutesou...digital-interconnects/

Wow. Do you think if I used one of those high-end audiophile USB cables to hook up a printer its resolution would improve? Or how about an external back-up drive? Surely the 1s and 0s being backed up would benefit from arriving at the drive as so much better quality, tonally balanced 1s and 0s?

Me, I think the Belkin ones are overpriced.....

You have no idea. Since I bought my diamond studded USB cable my sex life has improved dramatically. A hidden advantage is that X3 supplies the rope and duct tape. It's AWESOME because they told me so.... ;) People don't understand there is '1' and there is the quantum enhanced super '1' which is better than an actual '1'. It's more like '1.1' really. Therefore .1 more than 1. Such like 11 is so much better than 10. 

I really do wonder how the manufacturers of such snake-oil have the nerve to make the claims they do. Not to mention the reviewers who praise the stuff.

To borrow someone else's phrase: "It's the blind leading the deaf".

Remind me to never get into a fight with Craig.

Jim Roseberry
And yes, I do love the sound of a '59 humbucker in the bridge of a Les Paul.
More "hair" than the BurstBucker Pro
But alas, the BurstBucker Pro has more "detail/air"
I like them both...  
 
Sorry for derailing the thread.
I'm good at that sometimes...

"Derailment by connoisseur" is never a bad thing. Especially by someone who knows his pickups AND his bits and bytes.

 
I've been away for a few days, but this thread was a great way to return !  This is one of the best threads I've read in a long time.  It's gone from a good first question, the legitimacy of which I don't think anyone can argue, into all sorts of great directions...

Sidroe :
"I spent most of my playing career standing in front of 1 and sometimes 2 Marshall Super Lead 100 watt stacks. As stated before, playing auditoriums, ball parks, etc. with no mic in the p.a.. Pure brutal volume. You had to stand off to the side a little to escape the ear-bleeding pressure levels!"

I really envy you your experience, but not your hearing loss !  What I'd give to buy you a beer or three...

tlw :
"I also just happen to find it easiest to get a good guitar sound by micing a low wattage class A amp or even plugging in a Sansamp than spending ages tweaking the gain staging of an interface/Sonar channel/amp-sim chain."

Yes.  Analog is a physical reality that you can interact with and it responds.  And each instance is unique.  No way you can model that in the virtual.

@:
"And that is another thing - part of the charm of the 1176 sound, or LA2A was it highlighted important tracks.  It wasn't slathered on everything, simply because it was too expensive.  If you were lucky enough to have one, you put it on something other than the cowbell."

!!  Love it.

CakeAlexS :
"BTW Does it have crackling pots, the dope that's fallen through the faders, the sprinklings of cocaine on top of the VU meters, the hiss when all the faders were turned up to 11, the engineer who understood the desk inside out, the blood of junkies over the master bus, the crackle of patch chords that weren't cleaned in braso?"

Getting close to the answer...

LA2A :
"Any while i'm here, what part of "Recreate EVERY SUBTLE NUANCE" DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND? Opps, i forgot, those were the 'lies' of the marketing department."

Do you really believe that phrase ?  Doesn't it ring slightly optimistic ?

Jim Roseberry :
"After the better part of 30 years using samples/models of various instruments and hardware, I'm pretty confident in the statement that, "An emulation/model will *never* offer the same exact experience as the original."
If you need 100% faithful, nothing beats the original."

The conclusion !

As I said, a great thread...