What signal are you sending to this cab? One with a Cab block and cabinet modeling enabled? Or with no Cab block?
If there were no Cab block, it would be a Cab in the room... Because it's just a (non-traditional) guitar speaker in a cabinet with a built-in power amp.
If there is a Cab block and cabinet modeling enabled, I would calling it a really bad FRFR
Unix-guy thanks for responding to this.
The reason I asked is because I wanted to illustrate that the 'amp in the room' debate boils down to actually driver that is in the box (and of course how well the box is made).
For the sake of discussions, if you take a Friedman or XiTone that is built in a similar form to what a traditional 1x12 guitar cab looks like, the only major difference is the speaker/driver. You pull the Full Range speaker out of the Friedman (and disable the tweeter) and put in a V30, it will sound like a guitar cab (and people will say - it's 'amp in the room')....well how did that happen, the amp didn't change?
What drives me a little crazy about the 'amp in the room' debate is that it has nothing to do with the amp.
It's is the type of driver in the box that makes the difference.
Same box, same power amp, same Axe FX.....you either put a Full Range speaker in there with an IR....or you put a guitar speaker in there with no IR. That is what I see as the 'choice' to be made.
Do you like Full Range drivers, or do you like Guitar Specific Drivers...?
Yes, the quality and design of the box makes a difference, but that's a different discussion.
The other difficultly is that not all FRFR are created equal...not by a long shot.
There is much greater variation in the quality of FRFR, based on what you are willing to spend.
Or I should say - it's easier to get a quality guitar cab for minimal $, but not as easy with FRFR. So it's easy to see why people give up on it.
But IMO, when you spend the money for an excellent FRFR, and get comfortable dialing it in, the flexibility it offers outweighs the 'differences' it has to a guitar cab.