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Thinking about getting this or the Michael Sweet version. Any feedback on the Theta Pro is much appreciated.
McLeanAB":1zmll14j said:Hey there!
I love mine... had it forever and love ISP gear and the company... with that being said, it 'feels' just like an amp when playing. I've tried the Kemper, Two Notes stuff, and a bunch of IR's (most recently the Celestion IR's) and they are all great... but to me, my style of playing, the Theta Pro just works right...
The effects are lush, clear, and open. The MS Theta Pro has an additional Mid and Sweep (makes three in the post distort eq section), a Leslie rotary speaker sim and you can switch between two speeds - it 'falls' to the slower speed and vice versa - and a tuner. And a ping-pong delay. And I think Buck is finally going to commit to a USB soon... he really wanted to work on the sound first, but knows that to not have a USB is turning a lot of people off...
A couple of the first demos I did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TiGTOPbEkk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk4rG6IK1wU
I think I got a little better and finding my sound, so here's a bunch of tunes using the Creamback sim for leads and heavy stuff... also used a flat eq and tons of compression to run my Ibanez semi-hollow 'direct':
https://adammclean.bandcamp.com/album/dream-winds
I have a MUCH better interface now, so the tunes I'm currently working on (not yet published) sound a lot cleaner and clearer...
There's a bunch of newer demos out too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpbK3JSnLZo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSWntpGv8Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2n_rXOcWxs
Just to give a nice cross section of stuff that's a little less heavy than my work...
I use it almost every day... love the feel of it and how it responds... I love that you can't get lost in a ton of submenus... I love that the parameters for everything are simple and not overly complex... I love that the Flanger sounds amazing, and when you turn off the regeneration, it sounds like a huge post distort Phaser... the 'regular' Phaser is pre-distort... I love that the Detune is another option to the already amazing thick Chorus (that to me, is reminiscent of the old ADA MP-1 and Gallien-Krueger chorus, but MUCH better), the cab sims are clean and clear with no latency and feel very open and responsive... to contrast (not to bash) I found other IR's to be a bit 'stiff'... I just did a comparison with the Celestion Creamback IR from Celestion and the Theta Pro Creamback and they are very close when recorded... the Theta still does it for me and the Celestion is a bit darker...
Overall, I love it... as always, tone and user interface are subjective as hell based on what you need/want for your music... it's flexible within limits - meaning, you can't load 1000 third party IR's, you can't send the chorus into the delay/reverb trails like some of those lovely old Lexicon units, a handful of really great cab sims, three 'preamps': Theta, Vintage, Clean... pre and post distort eq's with a sweepable mid in the pre, and now three sweepable mids in the post...
It just feels good to me and it's very simple to use... I'm not looking for 1000 different preamp/amp/cabinet combinations to have, I'm looking for a few versatile ones that will give me a broad range of tones I can make and not model. I don't care if I don't have 100 Marshalls, 50 Boogies, 10 Enlgs piled up in the digital storage with 100 cabs and 1000 ways to tweak the mic placement... that's too much for my old brain to handle...
I hope this helps... feel free to ask any other questions you might have about it!
Econ":2yo47dhe said:I play 80's metal and some jazz/fusion. What I like about the MS version is the pitch shifter, post eq and tuner options.
romanianreaper":36e9vqn5 said:Wow, that thing sounds pretty cool! So does that go into an FRFR solution or power amp and cab?