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Krispen Hartung wrote: > I will likely wait until I get the FW400 before I rush into anything > for much of the same reason you explain below. Jeff Kaiser keeps > telling me to just wait and see what my guitar sounds like when I plug > directly into the high qaulity inserts and preamps of the FW400. He > thinks I will be pleasantly surprised, and I may well be. The less > gear I can get away with using to get my ideal sound, the better. I agree with Jeff here ! > Just for reference, I like a very dark, warm, and "semi" clean jazz tone. Try a Summit B2a-b ( check the name, I don't remember well). It was too dark for me but it was great in terms of tube response. > I can typically never get this sound when I plug into a mixer board, > because the mixer is just re-producing what it gets, which is not what > I want. In general, unless we are talking about full bodied jazz > hollow body guitara and acoustics, I dislike the sound of the electric > guitar direct into a board....it sounds dry, lifeless, and sterile to > me, for obvious reasons since the sound source is basically a piece of > solid wood with a magnetic pickup. Well... it's a singing string which reacts to a good amount of wood, the neck being one of the most important. Many el. guitars are considered even too resonant ( and I like them...) Pickups are also a veeery important instrument in the instrument. > "Guitar is very, very tricky. A lot of people don't understand that > the electric guitar and guitar amp (especially the tube amp) evolved > together. The electric guitar by itself is basically a piece of wood > with a pickup and strings on it....sounds like total crap when you run > it through a regular line input or mixer board, etc. So with the > guitar, it is a fallacy to focus on fidelity of caputuring the sound > of the sound source, unless we are talking about the tube amp as the > source, because the electric guitar as a original sound source is > pathetic. And this is unlike the acoustic, which is a different animal" this is one route, certainly playing through a good amp at high volume can give the feeling of one perfect instrument, I also get a lot of fun when I do it. But I don't agree on any fixed rule in music making, even more when it comes to the way you may use your instruments. > I like this idea of the electric guitar and guitar amp being a mutual > evolution over the years. It explains why so many guitarists get so > frustrated with trying to get a decent guitar sound without an amp. Maybe el. guitar to board and amplified guitar to gtr amp are two different kind of instruments because I am very happy with the "go direct" way, maybe just because I don't want to approximate or replicate any sound; I want to find the sound that makes me happy and I use any way I can to get it. I think that if you look to get a decent amp sound without using an amp you will always be disappointed unless you decide to accept some legitimate limits. An amplified guitar ( through a guitar amp) is one thing, consider all guitar amp emulators add a very important point: they emulate the guitar amp miked, not as you would be hearing it with your ears. Have fun, not limits ;-) my best, luca www.unguitar.com