I call that “ double-cabbing“, and if you’ve ever tried it, you’ll know that it’s like having a wool blanket over your whole sound. The most important thing here is to make sure you turn off the power amp modeling and cab sim/IR in your modeler, because here we’re replacing those with the real deal – doubling up on especially the cab sound is disastrous for your tone. Now we start to get a bit more complex – in this scenario, you want the preamp sounds and effects from your modeler, but the volume and tone of a physical tube power amp and speaker cab.

Modeler Preamp and Effects Into Tube Power Amp The disadvantage is that there’s no stage volume at all, which puts you completely at the mercy of the sound engineer, although that might be something you want.Ģ.

I like this because it’s easy, you can have the most variety of tones this way (not locked to a single kind of cab and amp sound), there are only 2 cables involved, it’s easy to go stereo, and it’s pretty hard to screw up. What the audience will hear is what you’ve got set up in the modeler, and every part of the signal chain needs to be active in the modeler. This is, of course, the simplest – you plug your guitar into the input of the modeler, and go out from the main output into a DI box or snake that goes to front of house, and that’s it. Here’s all the different ways to connect your modeler for playing live: 1. In these examples and the video above, we’re using the Line 6 POD Go, but these principles apply to pretty much any modeler available. This comes into play especially when combining a modeler with some kind of physical amp and cab. In order for our modeler to sound good live, we need to be sure that we’re not doubling up on or leaving out one or more of those. In order to understand why this works the way it does, we have to first understand one important principle – a modeler recreates each part of the guitar signal chain – the preamp, the power amp, the speaker cab, and the effects.

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