MODELED AMPS & CABS: WHICH AMPS AND CABS ARE MODELED?
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everything – warming up keyboards, crunching up drums, fuzzing up vocals. We’ve
gotta give ’em something to do that!’ So we did. The Tube Preamp Amp Model
lets you warm up any sound source the way producers and engineers often do in
the studio with vintage tube gear. For more “edge” on vocals, try running your
vocal tracks through POD. Or punch up (or munch up) a synth bass track by
sending it through POD and cranking up the drive and EQ controls to suit your
taste. Although this is not actually a guitar amp model, you can even get some
great guitar tones out of it. Also try using it as a direct box for bass. When you do
this stuff, you want to use the Drive control like a mix knob on a reverb to control
how much processing you want to hear. You generally don’t want to mix the pre-
POD sound with the post-POD sound because of the comb filtering that results.
Instead, jack the sound source right into POD and then only monitor it post-POD
processing. With the tone controls at 12 o’clock, the EQ is “flat.”
Line 6 Twang (Hold Tap + Line 6 Clean) - This model draws on our analysis of
the '60s Fender blackface Deluxe amps and the '50s Fender Bassman. (It includes
the classic Fender glassy high end, plus the snap and bite of these vintage amps.)
Things don’t really get too crunchy until you get to the top range of the Drive
knob. The tone controls provide more range than the blackface Deluxe or
Bassman.
Line 6 Crunch #2 (Hold Tap + Line 6 Crunch) - This sound was crafted
during our studies of the '68 50 Watt Marshall Plexi. But unlike the Plexi, this
Amp Model provides more wide-ranging tone controls. With the Plexi, once
you’re overdriven, the tone controls really don’t do much, but POD will allow you
to scoop out the mids even at the highest Drive settings.
Line 6 Blues (Hold Tap + Line 6 Drive) - This tone is based on the '65
Marshall JTM-45 Bluesbreaker but incorporates wider range tone controls. Once
you get into higher Drive settings, this Amp Model begins to transition into a
variant of the Budda Twinmaster (a high end boutique amp) for sweeter overdrive
tonality.
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