On 2/18/06, Cesare Marilungo <cesare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dana Olson wrote: > > >On 2/18/06, Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:27:04PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Does anyone have a smallish amp with a really nice sound, of comparable > >>>quality to the above two, that they would recommend? I don't really > >>>like the way Marshalls sound. > >>> > >>> > >>I've heard good things about amps from Line6. They come in a lot of > >>different sizes, come wwith different feature packages, and were > >>medium-priced, IIRC (been a while since I looked at amp; not much a > >>guitarist myself). > >> > >>I never really listened to them, but I got the suggestion from asking > >>a similar question. > >> > >> > >>-- > >>Ross Vandegrift > >>ross@xxxxxxxxxxxx > >> > >>"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who > >>make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians > >>have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine > >>man in the bonds of Hell." > >> --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37 > >> > >> > > > > > >I can't vouch for their amps, but I have a Line6 POD 2.0, and it is by > >far the best investment I've made for my guitar sound, period. My main > >focus is on recording guitar direct though, and this thing simulates > >many different amps, speaker combos, and some basic effects. You could > >use it in front of an amp as well, and get a wide variety of tones out > >of it. > > > >I sold my old Yamaha amp so I could afford it last year. I do almost > >miss having an amp, but with headphones, this thing rocks. > > > >Anyhow, I imagine their amps would sound great too, with a variety of > >different sounds in them. I'll probably be trying them out when I'm > >ready to get a new amp again. But I liked Fender's Princeton Chorus > >the best out of all the amps I've tried thus far. > > > >Dana > > > > > > > > > Check out the Zoom G2.1u, also. > It's cheap (130 euro, should be around 130-150$ in US) and it can be > connected directly to a pc via usb. The resolution through usb is > 16/44.1 but the converters are 24/96. > > http://www.zoom.co.jp/english/products/g21u/index.php > > I know it's not the real thing. But if you haven't enough space you > wouldn't be able to properly capture a real amp anyway. > > I'm satisfied enough of its sound that I'm using it in my recordings. > > I used it on this track: > > http://www.cesaremarilungo.com/download/music/Hope.ogg > > c. > -- > www.cesaremarilungo.com > Wow, what a nice song! I generally don't listen to much other than metal and industrial, but this song is very nice. There's something I can't describe about it... Anyhow, that Zoom you are using sounds nice. I'm actually surprised, because a couple other Zoom things I've tried really sucked. Especially the 505II, that thing is noisier than an interstate. So the Zoom you have, it works as a usb-audio device in Linux? What else did you use to record that track, as far as the software and other instruments are concerned?? Dana
