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There's a reason I still play 60-year-old guitars through tube amps and other ratty old gear. It's kinda my escape from 1's and 0's. Sometimes I'm convinced we
by EADGBE 9y ago
There's a reason I still play 60-year-old guitars through tube amps and other ratty old gear.
It's kinda my escape from 1's and 0's. Sometimes I'm convinced we dove too fast into this whole digital everything, thing.
- graphitezepp 9y agoEntirely too fast. We have no idea what we are doing.
- _hobo 9y agoI share your sentiment, but the profiling amps are coming along (Kemper, two notes speaker emulators, etc)
- EADGBE 9y agoThey're scary good.
- mortenjorck 9y agoMusic is an evergreen respite, and I love to play with the sound of analog. But I'm under no illusions: I almost exclusively use digital models of analog gear. The technology was already to the point of effectively indistinguishable 15 years ago, and modern emulations border on lovingly obsessive overkill. I will never own a Yamaha CS-80. The extraordinary bulk, unreliability, and expense make the signature synth of Vangelis unpalatable in every way but its sound. But the software version I use captures that effervescent analog flutter to a better degree than I can possibly discern, and it all fits on my MacBook.
- EADGBE 9y agoIt sure does have its convenience going for it. But like the hipster with their vinyl; I still yearn for that electric glow of vacuum tubes. It doesn't make sense - it doesn't have to - the tactility of it all is an experience in its own. Like a manual toothbrush.
- mikestew 9y agoOoh, look at Mr. Les Paul over here with his new-fangled, high-tech, amplifiers. :-) I have a rack full of effects and the like lying around, but in my advancing years I find even plugging something in to be more friction than I want. So whatever comes out of the sound hole is good enough. Makes music at the campsite easier, too. And by all means, rock on. I just found it amusing from my POV that “simplifying” still involved plugging something in.
- EADGBE 9y agoJust an example. Nothing more simple than flesh and strings. That's what it's all about, really.