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I've never really bonded with my PODXT Live... Sometimes I like it, but most of the time I can't seem to get a very good recorded tone out of it. I started experimenting with my Tonebone Hot British distortion, putting that into the POD, turning on the "Tube Preamp" model and cabinet emulation. I got some nice lifelike tones out of it, plus it feels like a real amp. My question is, are there any devices available that will emulate a 4x12 cabinet for recording? Price is an issue... I don't want to spend tons of $$$.
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Nevermind, I think I found what I'm looking for:
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The Behringer sounds good, especially considering the pricetag. Also check out the H&K Redbox Pro and the Voodoo Labs Cabtone. You´re probably gonna like one of them, at least. From the vintage side of things both Marshall and ADA made similar products in the past, probably Rockman/Scholz as well. But if you can squeeze it into your budget, any Palmer will IMHO kill just about everything else. They have some cheaper models that actually aren´t all that expensive at all.Comment
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I would love to find something can take the speaker out from my head and feed into into a board, soundcard, etc... without having to hook up a cabinet. That would be sweet to get that raging tube amp tone at TV volume (monitoring through the computer speakers). The Behringer shows a setup similar to this in the manual, but you need to hook up a cabinet to an additional output that is provided on the unit. I'm pretty sure the Palmer boxes would do what I'm looking for, but they probably cost big $$$.
Modelers are cool and all, but I just prefer the tone of the real thing.Comment
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You don´t want to hook up a cab? Well, some of the Palmers have loads... and I believe the Koch Loadbox will do the trick as well. I tried that one out a couple of years back, and it was both a good power attenuator/load and a good speaker sim.Comment
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I suppose hooking up a cab would be okay, as long as I could attenuate the volume WAY down.
That Behringer would do the trick for my original idea, but then I got to thinking...
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Well, then you´re down to two options... either buy a unit that both attenuates and sims a cab, which to the best of my knowledge will point you to Palmer or Koch. The other way is to buy a speaker sim, like the Behringer, AND an attenuator like the Powerbrake or the THD Hotplate. Just make sure to put the speaker sim before the hotplate.Comment
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The Hughes and Kettner red boxes actually sound pretty good. I had (and still have) an ADA rack single space cab simulator, but it's always a tiny bit noisy. The H&Ks I've used are dead quiet, and most of the newer ones can be phantom powered.Comment
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Here's a clip of the Behringer Ultra-G used as the cab sim for my Voodoo Lab preamp. I do not recommend the Voodoo Lab cab sim:
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