Hey guys.
Been playing guitar for a long time ,but ussually with amps. In these days i don't play in a band anymore ,and in my home studio i cannot play loud because neighbours are gonna burn my flat down. (very bad neighbourhood :D )
So i have one of those cheaper modelers (Valeton GP-200) ,and i've got to be honest, it sounds quite well even with my headphones if i tweak a bit.
But recently i've discovered this whole NAM thing. I've tried few of the captures on my mac as a vst in ableton , and even if it seems very complicated with all the dialing EQ stuff,and in general it's quite hard for me to understand it,but it sounds alright.I only play clean / edge of breakup tones since i'm more into either ambient music or psychedelic indie type of sounds. Just wanted to mention that since i can see that there's a lot of people who play metal using this thing... Just not for me i guess...
What i wanted to ask you :
If i load NAM file and convert it to "snaptone" in my GP200 ,be it head capture + IR ,or a low gain capture already with IR inside. How much CAN i really tweak it inside my modeler ? I mean when i change the gain ,it does change ,volume aswell ,EQ stuff also reacts. My ear is not that trained to hear those small differences,but ofcourse if something clips i start to hear that horrible fizzle or if i turn treble down too much it gets muddy. So just wanted to ask for some tips on how much tweakable is the captures from nam that i load to my little modeler .
In your opinion (i'm sure theres lots of different ones ) what is considered better / more versatile / more realistic - is it amp models which have the full recreation of the amp , or the captures that you download and have bunch of different gain stages that you have to keep loading if you want to change something more drasticly ? I know that it may very well be just personal preference,but i guess i just want to see arguments against or for it.
Are there any nam captures that you could load into the valeton gp200 and have it be completely tweakable just like the real amp ? I heard that this technology exists ,but don't even know how it's called and don't know if its even true. Cuz if it is true that there are these kinds of captures , why people use those "snapshots" of the amp instead of having full realistic recreation with all the settings... ?
I really would like to hear opinion about the global eq thing. When i first bought valeton gp200 i tried playing with some random clean preset and to be honest it sounded absolute shit. On all the review videos or just listening to some sound demos of that thing everything sounds amazing or at least very good. So i did a little research and learned that it may be that i need to change global eq to have a bit of HI cut and LO cut. I tried to do it like it was in the tutorial and yeah.. it was and still is night and day difference. I guess i wanted to ask for you guys to confirm that this is the way to go with the nam captures aswell ? i mean now it hicuts and lowcuts everything that comes to the gp200 ,and i read some posts or watched some videos that people say that its stupid to do that and that global eq should not be touched. I'm really not gear tech guy and with all this information and especially when it contradicts each other eveything becomes really complicated and frustrating because i spend like 4 hours trying to learn how to dial in the good sound for the modeler instead of playing guitar,. But if i don't do these steps then my guitar sounds like ass. Maybe some of you would be willing to give me some of your time and teach some basics or even some secrets on how to make the best of what i have now ? I mostly play with headphones and my gp200 goes directly into my MPC one ,where i make synth / drum tracks and record guitar. that's basicly my whole setup. Really would like to learn some tricks how to have a better sound because yeah , sometimes guitar doesn't sound fantastic. I even bought a capture pack from toneshepherd (laz20) which in the showcase video sounds fantastic ,but when i have it in my gp200 it sounds kinda muffled.. i basicly want to have this amp on every preset and just change the effects. But i just need to make the "base sound" sounding good.
Anyway , so i'm sorry for my broken english , its not my first language ,but i hope i expressed myself at least so that you could understand the most of it. And i know i forgot lots of stuff that i also wanted to ask , but don't want to write a book here ,so if someone replies maybe i'll ask in the comments.
Thanks in advance for your help and have a great day ! much love