smilefan
Experienced
To respond to my own post:
My GT800FX is in, it's doing fine and I 'm experimenting with cab sims.
I get much better results now with the 3rd party IRs than yesterday. I think I can live happily ever after without cab sims at all for live performances. Clean and high-gain stuff sounds fine without them. But for tones like Plexi and Wrecker and crunch tones in general the cab colorizing is pretty important. And it looks like the Ownhammer IRs (TC 30-1) can get me there. Using cab sims does adds mids and I have to take care not getting a mushy. But it's doable.
Most of what I play is semi-clean to semi-dirty. Mids are everything in that area. That's part of why I prefer to use cab sims ON in a live environment. The way I used 3rd Party IR's was to create two parallel cabs each with a different speaker IR using either a TC30 or KM 84 (for early Redwirez) mic model and pan each cab out about 30-45 degrees from the other.
The two different IR's would be chosen to compliment the amp in question. For example, with a Dr. Z amp I would use a Redwirez G12H30 speakerbox IR (TC30 cap edge 0") on one side and a Redwirez AC30 Blues (KM84 Cap Edge 0") on the other. For me, using them like this lost me nothing in clarity and got me an extra dose of realism in mids complexity.
As I have said before, with high gain patches, the higher the gain, the more the effect of using a cab sim live is negated.
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