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 could have sworn this was the techniques forum.

I was wrong.

  I'll bet that MP1 is no youngster either.

I'll bet that MP1 is no youngster either.

Sure sign you are getting old when: You are playing a gig and the equipment you bought NEW is older than pretty much all the help. FML!  

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.

Playing about 47 years,

Guitars, Gibson SG, Variax 700 & JTV59

Amp Roland Cube 30 rarely used

Amp Sims, Guitar Rig 4, Amplitube 3, PodFarm 2, TH2 (Sonar version)  of which I use GR4 probably the most, then Amplitube.

These day's I think most any of the amp sims can hold their own against a real amp, and a heck of a lot more convenient.

Dan

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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

( 2 ) Marshall JCM2000 DSL heads (50w) and (100w)
( 2 ) Marshall AV1960 412 cabs w/ Vintage 30s
( 2 ) Marshall JCM2000 DLS 401 Combos w/Vintage 30s
( 2 ) Mercury modded Epiphone Valve Jrs w/Vin30s
( 1 ) Mesa 50/50 power amp
( 1 ) Avatar 212 Cab w/vin30s
( 2 ) VHT modded 12watt half stacks w/ vin30s
( 7 ) Gibson les paul Standards
( 1 ) Gibson Les Paul Custom
( 1 ) Gibson Firebird 5 (V)
( 1 ) Gibson SG Standard
( 1 ) Fender Mim Roadworn Tele w/ Hotrails
( 1 ) Taylor 312CE Anniversity
( 2 ) Boss GT8s
( 3 ) Carl Martin compressors
( 2 ) Keeley Modded TS9 tubescreamers
( 1 ) Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah
( 2 ) Deltalab Delays
( 1 ) Roland GR33 W/ Roland ready Stat
Most pictures on my Facebook ( bob gassert )
I really dig the TH2 Full version and the Waves GTR3  ,,,,,,,,I been considering getting the Brainworx Guitar amp software too
  

timidi


Gear:
Silvertone

Guitar:
Silvertone

AmpSim
Ronco deluxe

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

A cross over artist. How versatile.

Here's a simple collection of stuff that I made as exercises in drum programming and guitar tone experiments. I like an in-your-face sound and I find it's easy to get with a small or medium size tube amp.

one of my guitars and one of my amps:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...%20Scallions%2004a.mp3

another guitar and another amp:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...testC-09_mikemccue.mp3

some guitar and some amp:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...1eXtreme_mikemccue.mp3

a guitar and a amp:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...%20Cash%20Bar%2006.mp3

guitar and amp:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...Bass%20First%2006a.mp3

A AM strat and a Fender Champ:

http://harmoniccycle.com/...ngles/Dunkirk_128k.mp3




Amp sims seems to work best for highly compressed guitar tones that are destined to be layered in a mix in such a way as to seem more civilized even if they are intended to convey a heavy vibe.

I think I prefer, for myself, the in your face tones.



best regards,
mike