Tone Master Pro (and modelers etc in general)

[Shask]

a modeler will never sound like your amp side by side. if you mic your amp in another room and play it through the same playback system, that’s closer to the modeler experience. it has its place and a great tool, but if you’re a dude who gets his jollies standing in front of the amp, and nothing else will do, then bothering with modelers is a losing battle. at this point i have owned and like almost all the major modelers, but not tone master. hell at home i play plugins 90% of the time anymore. but im a guy who kept my cabs miked in another room anyway, so it was a natural switch to modeling.

What plugins are you using that you like?

I never liked playing through the computer, but recently picked up ToneX and Amplitube, and I have been liking it a lot more than plugins I have used in the past.

 

[Rex Rocker]

I've never liked the experience of using those FRFR speakers, personally. The feel and sound is just so alien if you're used to amps in the room. It's convenient for monitoring puproses, but that's about it, IMO.

I do like the tone and feel of a decent modeler through a tube (or even solid state) poweramp and a 4x12 cab. I feel the experience is much closer as playing through a regular amp. But it's still not the same. But at that point, I feel it's also us romanticizing the experience of an actual head. It's hard to break away from it, though, and since playing is not an analytical scientific experience, I think it's pointless to break away from it.

Then again, for me, the final mic'd tone is king. It's hard to argue with that. As others have said, that's what modelers do best, so I have don't have a problem adapting my perception to the experience of playing through a modeler and a poweramp and cab, personally.