hey brummer, I was looking at some hardware out there for guitar like preamps and pedals. Most of them use to come with amp/cab sims. Now, because of impulse response, they have removed the hardware amp/cab sims. I even emailed one pedel maker and this was his reply:
Hi!
Thank you!
Most of the time i'm involved in custom projects. The pedals are for
sale, but currently i'm changing all the line for a newer versions (tap
tempo modulation pedals, FirestarterII etc).
What do you mean exactly by "built for direct recording"? All my pedals
are designed to work with line levels, there are no impedance issues,
the modulation pedals could be used with any line level signal (like
plugged into the mixers insert point). But i'm no longer using the
hardware cabinet simultors, just because the software solutions are
giving much better results, like f.e convolving plugins and speaker
impulse responses. This sound sample was recorded with a plain pedal
(FireStarterII) just plugged into the soundcards line input:
http://www.herby.kielce.pl/~piter/hexen ... 0IRmix.mp3
I think for such a simple hardware setup the sound is quite good and
convincing.
So, if you are looking for a pedal that will sound good without plugging
it into a cranked amp, but instead recorded directly at bedroom levels -
then yes!
The FireStarterII would be the best choice.
Regarding the modulation pedals. The regular versions of RadarPhase,
AquaTrem will be equipped with MIDI interface allowing to controll most
of the parameters directly from the DAW application or any midi controller.
Regards!
Piotr
I've been asking some of the vst developers who give their software freely if they would port or open source it and they all say no..... Dude, please don't port your guitarix to Windows. I'm just a little bitter that most Linux developers make their software availible for Windows as if we need to bow to the Master, yet the Windows developers don't. They say they don't have time yet the Linux developers have the time to do both...
I just really love Linux the way we have control over our OS that's why I really wish I knew how to write apps.
How do you learn??