September 30, 2020
Since I’m going to be home alone with no one to annoy, this seems like a good chance to record my real amp. They’ve gone an amazing way towards perfectly simulating vacuum tube amplifiers now. But they still suffer from the problem where you have to dial in the settings for a particular thing say, lead on the bridge pickup, that then won’t sound great playing rhythm on the neck pickup with the volume rolled back on the guitar. The original 1940s tech does not suffer from this problem. A good, 1960s style tube-amp with a great loudspeaker, and a good guitar with great pickups, and you need to work pretty hard to make it sound less than great. I want to record an old Otis Redding number that really needs me to be able to switch between stuff on the guitar.
