One of my only frustrations with Spark is that it doesn’t offer a room mic, and it’s never played well for me with 3rd party IRs.
The Softube Plexi channel strip seems to have the magic. The room IRs never have good phase alignment with the close mic and make the overall tone thinner. I have IR packages from all the usual suspects, and none of them ever quite nailed the right balance of close mic + room that you need to get the impression of the Marshall roar. However, the channel strip is the best Marshall toned IR system I’ve ever heard. Having spent a month with it now, I can stand by my initial impression that the amp modeling is a tad weak. And it sounds awesome with other plug ins, whereas it can be a little plain at times on its own. It'll be simple to double this with a slightly brighter and slightly darker sound. I suspect it's geared more toward recording than plain old rocking out. They're running a promo till the end of the month and I'm definitely thinking about it. And this thing runs pretty hot so it's easy to overload the signal.īut I love softube plugs (the Eden bass amp is awesome) and this is definitely worth a shot. Would like to be able to combine the mics rather than just having three sets to choose from. And you can't bypass the cab section of you'd rather use your own ir's (not a bad thing, but a thing). It somehow has more gain then you'd expect and way too much not a clean sound to be found with humbuckers. It can be shrill, harsh, dark or dull pretty easily. On the down side, its pretty easy to get bad sounds out of it. I haven't tried it in a mix just yet, but I'm having too much fun with this to sit down and record. It's very Judas priest, Danzig, ac/dc sort of thing.Ī little reverb, a tube screamer plug in if you see fit, maybe a little delay for leads and the time just flies by. This is a straight up dirtbag rock machine. Don't have much to compare it to, just pedals and similar but more modern amps, but this is the most fun I've had with a plug in in some time. I couldn't get my amp going and PRS supermodels just wasnt doing it for me so down loaded this today on a lark. It sounds like you’re hearing the amp in another room with a mic on it. It will not sound like you’re in the same room with your amp.
But I think that Softube might be a good choice if you really love the sound of 60’s and 70’s recordings. So the whole process left me kind of thinking “hmmm.” Each does its own thing, and neither does a good job of trying to do what the other does well. You can back the mics off the speaker cone, but I don’t care for the way Spark sounds when I do this. Makes sense they target the modern player in their marketing. Through a combination multiple mics and/or cabs/speakers, re-amping, and mixing in IR’s, modern guitar sounds can occupy a much wider frequency response and largely eliminate the impression that you’re hearing an amp in another room with a mic in front. In contrast, modern guitar recording techniques are designed to basically make nearfield monitors sound like guitar amps - not recordings of guitar amps. contributed to the guitar sounds of that era - sometimes a little hollow and phasey. Those bands all sounded huge live, but their studio recordings at times have some rather dinky guitar sounds. That gets you everything from Hendrix and Cream through Priest and Maiden (and of course AC/DC/Tony Platt). I’m convinced that the channel strip is specifically designed for a classic rock recorded sound - the way that an amp of this period sounded, recorded in a studio of the same period - let’s say late 60’s - late 70’s. I’ve concluded that the debate over whether the modeling is inferior or superior to any of these is less significant with this plugin than the other component which really defines its sound - the channel strip. I spent the weekend with it, comparing it to Spark, S-Gear, Amplitube, and Bias Amp 2. For anyone researching this, wanted to offer some conclusions:
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