Decent virtual amp for late night practice?

[gunslinger_burrito]

Anyone know of a good virtual amp (vst plugin or such) that "takes" pedals well. I'd like to use my pedal board but play into a virtual amp so I can play later if I want to. Also, I feel like I mayyy have asked this a while back, but I don't remember

thanksssss

[sonidero]

Try to find a small combo and take the head out... Crate Cr-112 for $30 from the Pawn Shoppe with spring reverb and headphone or line out... Takes pedals well cause it's an amp...

[GardenoftheDead]

Guitar Rig and Amplitube work decently.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Try to find a small combo and take the head out... Crate Cr-112 for $30 from the Pawn Shoppe with spring reverb and headphone or line out... Takes pedals well cause it's an amp...

I've tried just running DI-out (however you're supposed to phrase that) with amps before, but it always sounds weird, because there's no cab resonating or whatever. Just like how I can notice a big difference in tone and characteristics between using my little 1x12 or my 4x10.

I've used amplitube; it actually has some pretty cool presets. It gets close to the sound of my actual amp, but I was curious if there's something out there I don't know about yet.

[GardenoftheDead]

There are some independent things like Lepou Lecto and stuff with cab impulses and such but it's really more trouble than its worth. The big names are the best ones really when it comes to modeling.

I believe at least one esteemed member has had good luck with the Fender Mustang V head though?

You could try direct out to Amplitube from an amp, bypass the amp model and just use the cab model?

[gunslinger_burrito]

You could try direct out to Amplitube from an amp, bypass the amp model and just use the cab model?

o_0

Sounds like a good idea.

[morange]

rednef twin is a Fender Twin vst simulation I like

It's part of this free suite: http://www.simulanalog.org/guitarsuite.htm

[gunslinger_burrito]

Cool! Thanks.

[rfurtkamp]

I ditched the sofftware and went hardware solutions. I'd rather have something I know will still function in a year or three regardless of software or operating system or other BS.

Fender Mustang USB out to whatever you'd like or headphone out will work just fine, not constantly try to sell you a new model or a new trick, and do just about everything out of the box you could want in fake amp land. Pick whichever one makes you happy - I have a V head but for recording/late night only a I would do just fine.

[rfurtkamp]

As far as taking pedals, this is all Mustang being fed a very, very hot signal from the Space Echo, MXR Blue Box, and Fender Blender. it also takes the ebow without complaint, which is something I can't say for some of the software modellers I've tried.

I'm not on my recording machine right now but I believe it's the stock 65 Twin Reverb and 57 Deluxe patches.

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[zRobertez]

http://www.voxamps.com/amplug/

I got one of these for christmas. Its not exactly virtual but its nice to use when you have to be quiet. But running a ton of dirt into doesn't always sounds how you would expect. But clean or a little dirt, it works great!

[the_carl]

Old thread I know, but I downloaded the free version of amplitube today and some trials of various heads, and daaaamn dat vox sim is nice. The fuzz/distortion pedals are not that great a/b'ed with the real things and the amps tend to sound worse as you crank them, but it sounds way better than I thought software would.

[gunslinger_burrito]

Yeah, amplitube is pretty nice. I've actually been using this one more.

http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=580

It's simpler, and my pedals sound pretty nice through it. I sometimes throw their virtual EQ pedal on, and it can make things sound pretty nice.