Do we still need amps? 

Best regards from switzerland :) Nice playing Paul!

Paul Davids I'm interested in taking your classes

For some people, this would be great.... I'm not sure if I'm one of those people though. I don't have any pa equipment or anything, but I already have 6 guitar amps. This has me wondering if I should remove the preamp in my Mustang II, and use something like this. I never liked it much anyways, so it's worth trying.

Paul Davids you're absolutely right. In most cases they are indeed boring.

Lol, i was so glad you cleared that up after the song demo.. :) I knew you were smart enough to know that, so it confused me... That song was very "vlog" material for people like.. ru-vid.com

@therainman777 FROM me, actually...

@@erdnaxeladamas who tf cares dude

@@erdnaxeladamas I care

@@mrdestruktiv It's just really, really lame.

@Philip Schlaepfer thats THE biggest problem??? I mean ya he's lame and it sucks but like what about violations of civil liberties, the innocent being killed without justice, or the current unemployment rate? I'm just saying there are other things to be mortified about... ✌

Synthesizers + A.I.= the possibility. What can stop it? Only people that want to spend the years to learn the art of guitar. Does the newest generation have the motivation? In the world of button pushers, we shall all find out.

sassulusmagnus Most music you hear on the radio nowadays is made on a computer. So it's not far off...

"The decade that music forgot" (Elvis Costello)

for hobbyists with space restriction, this could be life changing.

Gustav Vader throwing in the obligational: „OK Boomer!“

Exactly, you tell 'em! ;)

Should we tell him?

Zero does. He's a smasher. Smash Bros pro

I was expecting yet another rafflecopter (spam all our social media thingies everywhere to have a half a chance of being eligible!)

Oh dear...

Thomas Lanfranchi you’re

Right !!

Bro "allways" correct spelling is always

Just gotta cover shipping 😂

Of course it can, they have all sorts of amp modelers out there, even in tiny amp combos. You just have to push the Marshall amp button on them and your good to go. ...Actually Rick Beto and some other guys did a comparison with a 50 watt Marshall and the Helix, to be honest it sounded pretty good but it was not exact and both were still compressed into digital You Tube. You really have to hear thing live to hear the real difference.

@@jacobl6572 naaaaa, theres no preamp in the world that sound like my ols blues junior . its not the same thing and its not the same sound, when the speaker breaks theres a sound that not one digital preamp can replicate.

@@rjsvids isso é psicológico, duvido que num teste cego tu saberia qual é qual. Não vou dizer que é igual, mas as diferenças são absurdamente mínimas. Eu vendi meu DSL que tava criando poeira aqui e só uso interface praticamente hoje em dia, usei a grana pra fazer uma viagem hehe.

I think even thought a good modeler could mimic your sound pretty damn good many could not tell the difference you sound like the modeler would lack the feeling of a real amp. For me playing a modeler thru pc and monitors sounds really good and its far better for recording at home than any amp, I would still plug it in the fx loop when I play just for fun. The tone can be just the same but it coming from a pair of egg size speakers versus 4x12´ the feeling is way different.

I'm very sure that not all sounds you heard came from a guitar. There where samples and synthesizers..

Purely subjective. Everuone who thinks they can tell the difference always fails a blind test

Alexis Schrödinger Paul Davids liked your comment but he has stated that this video is not a demo. Confused?

You can take advantage from this

carnivaltym at around 4:30 you hear 3 guitar tracks at the same time...

@@kspicksguitartricks1014 thanks for that!

Video after that: “Do we still need humans?”

@@raphaelrodriguez1856 ... and Paul shooting everyone in the streets

Ok bro

@@joelbmathew3195 But it was a pretty weak demo.

I read this in your voice... I disliked and unsubbed

It's part of the evolution and I like the steps it takes. There were people probably criticising Amps back than that it isn't music anymore, real talent is playing an acoustic guitar and that everything else is basically cheating or not music. (Heck, there are still noblets saying that a real guitarist plays acoustics only nowadays. Those people are fun...) Times change and with it the gear we use or can use. I love my Amps more than any plugin or "rigs in a bag", but there's no way in denying that things like that are pretty cool and a step forward. It's like with the TVs. They were bulky, heavy and had less functions not to many years ago and while the flat screens had to be developed over years to display the eye candy we are used to today, boy, are we happy with those flatscreens nowadays. I know how you feel, but it's just natural, since we feel comfortable with what we used so far. But that new technology and the ones coming in the future aren't bad things. Especially since we are still the force, who create the music we play. These are just tools if we be honest. It will all still be us who need to practice and write music. These tools will still be tweakable to our taste and preferences. It's the future and it's up to use if we personally embrace it or not. But it's coming. It's on our way and there's no way we can stop change and technological advances, developments and steps in directions we might find strange in the beginning. I still find it shocking how many great guitar sound on Albums are made with Kemper or the Axe-FX and no one could tell, including me, but I welcome every convenient evolution that still let's the people do the music.

@@marvinrockon I couldn't agree more. Especially as a young (17) musician I can't really relate to, or afford, the "Vintage" guitars, amps and designs that everyone keeps pushing at me. So it's refreshing to know that the music technology is changing with the times and that there's something new for my generation too.

@@marvinrockon I disagree that these are a step forward from amps. I think they are a step in a different direction. The raw tone of tube amps cannot be created digitally, it will never sound as organic.

This is a completely different product than an audio interface. An audio interface is a digital to analog converter (DAC) which is required to record anything to a PC. DACs have preamps but they are not made for guitars and will not distort pleasantly (most of the time). The built in cabinet feature would actually make this a pretty slick practice recording and even live solution. That said with my experience with Hughes and kettners Redbox (via a tubemeister 36) you're much better off using amp plugins and impulse responses than just cabinet emulation. Alternatively use this instead of amp sim but still use impulse responses with the cab sim off. Or go ham and get some tube amp and a reactive load (with impulse responses) or ox box. Or just mic the damn thing lol. The Scarlett 2i2 interface is very popular sounds good and is affordable.

@@yoyoninjaboy6431 sorry it took me so long to respond. Thank you for your tips. Is it not better then to simply buy a cheaper amp? Like a mustang v2 or something along those lines? Since my speakers are not exactly studio monitors, it's better to have an actual amp speaker right? plus mustang comes pc connecting capabilities and some ways to modify the sound within it's software

@@msykala mustang would work. If you ever play with a drummer it will not cut it. It's a little more expensive but I know the boss katana is probably the best in class digital modeler right now.

Honestly the best setup to get is one that gets you playing and keeps you there.

ChadTV .,. i just wanna dance .. Nice man! I vote this guy to win it ...

Jv Dyk same

@@J1JL haha thanks, man! You're too kind!

Try a Kemper... game over. 👍🏼

@@joshpetermann I hate the way they sound in videos, but I need to find a shop that carries them and try one!

I think it's pretty cool... Utah. Sounds great. Utah.. UTAH!

Lol

Double hello from Utah.

I spent 5 minutes checking my equalizer settings wondering if the guitar track was muted.

Your comment is false. I still had a good laugh though so you get a like.

@@Disqualified_Identity In what way is my comment wrong?

Your comment wouldn't be wrong 10-20 years ago perhaps. Digital technology no longer has the limitations that you seem to be suggesting.

@@Disqualified_Identity It seems as though you didn't watch the video. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that he didn't show how an amp simulator could get anywhere close to the quality of an actual amp because his demonstration involved nothing but turning the sound of his guitar into a synth where you can't even hear the original guitar sound. This was a poor presentation of what he was trying to convey.

I have a sans amp modeling pedal nothing beats the real thing. Tubes rule

Looks cool

Ashutosh Srivastava It’s a Dutch accent :)

😂

When I read India I suddenly start reading your comment in India accent✌😂

Hell yeah, i agree with that man!!

Faxxx

I don't think it should replace an amp, pedal or else but rather be an alternative of those things. I've seen lots of touring musicians using multi FX units, midi controllers and all sorts of digital stuff. Johnny Marr from The Smiths uses a Boss GT100, Depeche Mode uses midi controllers live and it sounds good, you literally can't hear the difference BUT they still use their analogue gig in the studio and on their records. So it's a nice balance, we should be happy we have such amazing tools these days! Analogue or digital, we should use every kind of resource available.

i think it is a big difference between technology replacing human activity and technology supporting it. Technology could replace guitar playing only, if you are interested in not more than what comes out of the speaker. no choice for a guitarrist. you are interessted in creating and forming sound and music by the interaction of your brain, your ears, hands, and your guitar. maybe even more parts of your body😎. technology can help you doing so without owning, carrying and lifting tons of heavy glass tube and transformer iron loaded gear. what one considers as a heavy working musician might by perceived as heavy work force wasting musician by others.

@@dspindola94 Everything you said is true, and I'm not trying to completely bash technology. But to me, it's made a lot of today's music sound a lot more sterile. All of the great musicians have a unique, distinctive sound, and while digital technology and the unlimited options it offers can help someone find their own sound more conveniently and for a lot less money, too many options can be a distracting rabbit hole that holds them back. Being able to sound like everything can also make you sound like nothing special.

How tf did you get here 18h ago?

He is NO.1 fan

If I had a time machine I would mess around in Paul's comment section as well...

charaf hero Patreon...

damn right !

Convinced about what?

Paul Davids, that we don’t still need amps.

@@PaulDavids literally any claim you make about this pre-amp. you didn't demo it at all. there is zero substance here.

Cool piece but couldn't hear any guitar!!!

It's not a demo.

Nope, all the main parts are guitar.

Ok, I was a bit confused. You said it was probably the worst demo ever, so I figured you just mutated the signal with strymon etc. I thought that maybe just based off of how much you were enjoying it in the video that there was a guitar part that got lost on the upload or something. @@PaulDavids

No, I said that as a joke, because I used so many of effect pedals with the guitar.

Oh :-D I thought it was because we couldn't actually hear what the preamp sounded like with clean guitar sound ... well, no problem you have a good channel @@PaulDavids