mike_mccue
 but at the moment I'm planning on playing them for another 20 or 30 years.
 
:-)
 
 
 
 

I'm going invest in tube manufacturers.

mike_mccue
I thought the video explained that there were a lot more basic tweaking options in the $200 version, but it seems like the $10 iPad version is the hot ticket.

For those with an iPad. I have an iAndroid.

I had an Eleven Rack.
The build quality was great.
For higher gain distorted sounds, the unit was *very* noisy.
 
If you're talking a hardware unit, the Boss GT-100 is pretty nice.
Although it's not an Axe-FX or Kemper, it sounds better (IMO) than any other hardware based amp-sim (including POD-HD).  Very convenient unit for direct recording... or zero volume practice
With the dual displays, the GT-100 is pretty easy to tweak/program.
Check it out (if you haven't already)...
 

I"ll definitely check it out. One of the things I do like quite a bit about the POD is the software editor, but I see that the GT-100 has one that's even better, or t least, which looks a lot easier to read.

Rain

Monkey23
A shame that BIAS has geared their demos to the shredder market, because while I like to "shred" from time to time when no one is looking, my ideal sound is that clean/slight breakup type sound. BIAS is great for that.

I love metal, but I often feel like it would be awesome if people who make software didn't let their musical preferences dictate their decisions and broadened their horizons. There's a lot of products that I like but can't use for anything unless I'm working on some kind of metal, and with a very specific type of sound.
 
Even amp models and drums samples which are supposedly designed for other genres - they're just so obviously designed to satisfy the hear of a certain genre of metal fan. They're like a metalhead's vision of blues rock or jazz or whatever.
 

This is my issue with the AxeFX. I'm sure it's awesome at other styles of music, but the demos/videos/youtube clips etc. that show off it's non-metal side are few and far between.

Sidroe
I'm interested in knowing. The ones who want to buy BIAS are not saying if they want the full $200 version or the basic $99 version. Hands, please?
Unless you are in a position to have access to a lot of different amps to capture, I don't see much advantage to the $200 version. Can you not load amps that were captured in the full version to play in the little version? In that case, you could download from the cloud. Right? Just asking!

I would go for the $99 version personally. Still like the ipad version though.
 
Incidentally I was wondering what everybody is using as an interface for their amp sim software? One of the reasons I first started using the ipad was for the low latency. At least lower than my guitar -> Focusrite audio interface -> SONAR. Does anyone else have a latency issues? My timing is bad enough to begin with, I don't need latency adding to it. lol. 

I use my RME interface with amp sims in SOANR. At 64 buffer within a 24/44.1 project I get about 5.4ms roundtrip latency (as reported by SONAR in asio mode). That usually does the trick for me.
 
Of course if I have a VSTi or three going I usually have to freeze those guys to get that low in the RME.

I use a Focusrite Scarlett (on Mac, though, but essentially, it should behave similarly, imho) - buffers go down to 32 but I usually keep them at 64.
 
From memory, I'm getting something along the lines of 5-7 ms in terms of latency.

I know I don't shred like Paul Gilbert but I've never noticed latency, which must be over double what you chaps get. Perhaps my ears have latency correction?