In pod farm 2 you can have two completely separate signal chains and mix them in stereo. Does TH2 have this same capability or do you need to have two instances running on two tracks?

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Yup, it has all sorts of options like that and some fancy extra stuff you can do. You can have two heads and on each head have two channels on each head with different amps (so four heads actually) then send and blend to two different cabinets with the splitter and mixer. It's really crazy. Also when blending the channels on a single head it's not like traditional blending. It's some kind of weird fusing of the tones as opposed to just a volume blend. I'm not sure exactly what that means but it's in the manual and it does sound pretty cool.

One thing I'll give it a -1 for though is I don't think it's gonna be as good for bass as GR5s Ampeg model but I haven't tested it thoroughly... so at least I can still get my money's worth out of GR. The full version might have more bass options.

Damnit!!!!


I had a couple hours thorough play with the TH2 Sonar version and.... I think I really like it!! The sounds sounded massive! Tried to compare it a little with GR4 (full version) and well... they are two completely different beasts. But I was surprised of how well the TH2 could treat the lower frequencies - they were extremely present and extermely tihgt! I started with Beepster's recipe for good sound a couple pages back and I had made a bunch of presets with variations a couple hours later. I found it really easy to get not only good, but great results. It actually sounded good when just pluging in my guitar and not do much to the plugin. 

So I want to spend $99 on the upgrade. If I will allow my self... Hmmm... I've spent a lot of cash on gear and other stuff lately but this one is hard to pass on. 

I also saw on the Overloud website that you can crossgrade from TH2 to Mark Studio II for $97, which is a bass amp sim I'm really keen on. I love the Mark amps. Combined they seem like a great bargain!

So what to do? 

I used my Viper-50  tuned to B and an old heap of an Ephiphone tuned to standard E. Both sounded great. Even my Ukulele got some decent sounds when miced up through the TH2. 

GR4 have some pretty far fetched effects so I can't stop using it, but a combination of these two amp sims would be cool. 

I got to see the lady at the bank...


BTW - the DeEsser trick was quite cool. 

@bass: I've had markstudio bass for quite some time (need to install here) and it's unsurpassed. The low end is beyond comprehension (even if you HP the super low stuff) and has some nice flexibility. Don't know if it works with sonar yet though.......it's on tonights list of things to do.

  Oh boy, I had no idea how many more models and FX there were. Gosh, I can already feel the 99 bucks draining from my PP account........

Awesome. BTW guys those settings I listed were very very rudimentary. I essentially got a sound I liked and got sucked into recording a tune based on it (which I have been obsessing over since a little before I posted this thread). I'll be getting into more detailed tweaks once it hits the mixing stage. Then I'll save them as a preset. It's just a very addictive program and my amp is feeling lonely. lulz...

Well, until someone posts an awesome guitar-laden track that sounds awesome with TH2, I am calling ultra-mega-bull-sheet on it. Sorry.  PROVE me wrong!

Tomorrow maybe hockey. I'll do some bass stuff with MBS too. Just installed.....BRILLIANT! (and they added a new bass module!)

Yeesh, I'm working on it dude. I screwed up the timing on my "drum" track so getting everything tight has been a chore. Besides I'm taking my time on this one because I want to get it right production wise so I can move on to a different genre of music (I'm setting up templates for my albums). But that's beside the point, if you don't like TH2 you don't like it. We're not lying when we say we do. Sound is very subjective. I like the realism of it. Perhaps you enjoy more of a modern processed tone which GR provides. I like GR5 and I'll still use it for certain things but it was kind of a bear to work with and I spent more time tweaking than I did playing. Now not to get heavy here but I do not like being called a liar. In my opinion it is a very very nice program and I'm pleased as punch it was included with X2. That is fact. Cheers.