Hi guitar home players,
I’m looking for a setup to play at home with high quality sound and feel.
I first went with home monitoring (adam A8H) + amp sims on computer. The sound tone can be right for bedroom level playing but the feeling is not as good as I would.
I miss the fender headroom on my real hotrod and the crazy harmonics and feedback loop on a real high gain amp.
I would like advice from people who have bought or tested more than I.
1/Is kemper, neural dsp and other expensive produxt deliver more feeling than let say the TwoNotes Genome which is free to test ?
2/What about having real amps + loadbox? Is that better than amp sims for bedroom level or worse? From recordings on youtube it’s sometimes hard to tell but youtubers are just sellers nowadays…
3/What about having a larger speaker cabinet like a 2x12 for bedroom sound level at home. I expect the feeling could be different than the stereo 8" well positionned at ear height I have. Worse or better if anyone has both setups?
I have a Helix LT. Works great. If I was buying something right now, I’d get a Quad Cortex.
If you’re looking for free stuff, I’d try out the open source AI-based amp sim. I played around with it and it sounds fantastic.