JW Jones uses a Kemper, and last time I saw Anthony Gomes (prob 5 years ago when we played the same festival) he was as well. Other than that I'm not sure - I don't know of any personally.Question, GC - Are you the only blues wrangler you know of using modeling? I can't think of another one that I've seen doing the club circuit.
TBH, for as long as I've been using modelers I've thought I would have felt weird showing up with one at the blues jams I used to do a lot way back when. People had old Fender or Ampeg amps as I recall, and old LPs, strats, 335s, etc. No Marshalls in my crowd.Question, GC - Are you the only blues wrangler you know of using modeling? I can't think of another one that I've seen doing the club circuit.
yeah there's still a lot of that sort of 'old-school' stuff in the blues scenes - one of my favorite stories to tell is when a guy came up to me at a gig where there was a little Fender amp on stage behind me, and asked "how are you getting that huge tone out of that little thing?!?" and then I told him that amp wasn't actually plugged in, and showed him the Fractal - he thought for a minute, then said "yeah, I thought it sounded digital.." lol so people hear with their eyes and their preconceived notions color everything.TBH, for as long as I've been using modelers I've thought I would have felt weird showing up with one at the blues jams I used to do a lot way back when. People had old Fender or Ampeg amps as I recall, and old LPs, strats, 335s, etc. No Marshalls in my crowd.
Of course that was before there was digital anything. But still, that was a consciously organic crew. Even if it sounded good, it would have been weird.
Luckily or not, I'm sure it's less of an issue now, but not gone, and I bet it depends a lot on where you are.