DanTravis62
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You can do anything with an AXE or a Helix, those are the only I have experience with. Anything. I have 8 tube amps here and most of them have one base tone. Which I am fine with. Tell me what revolutionary amp has come out over the past 20 years that has revolutionized guitar tones as we know and yearn for? The homogenized nature of the past several decades of guitar tone has nothing to do with modelers, it has to do with what people relate to and identify with.
If any of us actually had the vision and talent to create our own true tonal voice on the instrument IME the best tool to use would be a modeler. But that's not what most of us are looking for. Here we want some mixture of the "brown sound" and that guy from Ratt. Over on the geezer page they want something else. Hence the "modeler setting" you reference above. It's not the gear's fault, it's the user.
People can only identify and relate with something that exists, and the more insipid obnoxious YouTube modeler users there are, the more it becomes just how guitars "sound."
And I agree that it's the users fault, but that doesn't change the fact that it's correlated with modeler use.
You can pretend all you want, but you know damn well everytime you hear that tone, it's a modeler.
It's not something inherently wrong with the modeler as a tool, it's that the modeler brings something gross out in guitarists.