So after months of experimenting with the above pieces of software, i ended up buying a Fender Mustang I v2 for 125 euros. The overall sound is not great, but its OK. It also offers unusual effects (not like the others) if you want to experiment with your sound. Tonestack has the ability to split the signal, so if you want to create complicate parallel-delay sounds (like eventide h9 or Strymon Dig) this is a cheap alternative. Mobile POD has a medium sound quality, and i think it targets guitarists that want distorted sound. Jamup has the best sound of all, includes a song slow-down utility that is nice, but overall, its not very user friendly, and the play-along looper sucks.Īmplitube has the worst sound of all, it is hard to learn to navigate it, but it has a very good built-in drum looper with adjustable bpm! Cool!! If you want a portable drum looper and you own an iphone/ipod/ipad, this is the best and cheapest solution. I still use Ampkit just for this looper to accompany my guitar playing. DON' T connect your ipad/iphone output to a guitar amplifier!!! The result SUCKS!!! due to the colorization of the sound through the guitar amp and speaker.Īll the above emulators can get you near to the tone you are looking for, but not right on the spot.Īmpkit is the most user-friendly, but to my opinion the sound is thin (to much treble, too low bass).īUT, it has a built-in super fantastic looper, so you can insert short mp3s with drum/bass and play along with them Just to clarify something that i don't see written anywhere in the sites of the creators of the above software, you MUST connect your ipad/iphone output to an FRFR amplifier or at least a hi-fi amplifier (yes, the one that your dad listens to his CDs!!) in order to feel their tonal quality. I have tried for many months Ampkit, Jamup, Amplitube, Mobile POD and Tonestack. I want to share my experience with digital emulators for iphone for my guitar: But.TS's FX pedals are still the best I've heard. I've made several worship guitar tones that do as well. I think Bias FX is pretty nice sounding for the country tones I use, I have a surf guitar tone that sounds great. Though I am mainly a metal player, I do play many styles of music. It’s the only SL model I’ve ever found that does the Hendrix/Cream thing with the rough, jagged low end vs everyone else’s SL which is more of a 12000 tight, focused EVH tone. It’s the only SL model I’ve ever found that does the Hendrix/Cream thing with the rough, jagged low end vs everyone else’s SL which is more of a 12000 tight, focused EVH said:Īnd I love Tonestack’s 67 Anglia amp. At least, they do for me (Tascam US 2x2 interface).Īnd I love Tonestack’s 67 Anglia amp. Tonestack and Amplitube handle external fuzzes like a champ. It just can’t handle it it gets mushy and flabby (not in a good way). I also found that using external real fuzz pedals in front of Bias (for Hendrix sounds) completely shuts it down. Wanted to like it, but it always sounds shrill and honky no matter what I do. Bias seems the clear winner for heavily saturated tones, but as a 60’s mid gain Marshall fan, I really really don’t like Bias. This would explain why the vast, vast majority of Bias fans and endorsers are metal players. Leaning one way is by definition detrimental to the other kinds of tones. I read a technical paper, which I barely understood, which basically posited that the nature of digital modeling and distortion dictates that the kind of sound you’re going for (clean, mild breakup, full on distortion) dictates how you design the software for best results. It’s still interesting to me how varied people’s opinions are, but I think it would help these discussions if we specified our preferred kinds of tones (clean, blues, rock, metal etc) because each of the apps excels at different tonal ranges.
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