New guitar need advice

JoyceRoadStudios

@WigWamBam said:
@JoyceRoadStudios i managed to load the free rigs. They sound very good. Im definitely going to buy a rig pack or two. In your opinion which pack has the most versatility?

My favorite rigs (Dang, Bassman50, Tremolux63) aren’t particularly versatile. They excel at clean to edge of break up, and up to vintage and 70s type overdrive/distortion. I also like Fried Betty which is a one channel amp that goes from American cleans to British crunch, it kind of straddles modern and vintage.

In terms of versatility, definitely the Boogie MK5. It does everything well, including everything up to metal, and has great clean tweed patches at the very end of the list. It does have a bit of compression. It’s based on a legend as you know.

However, the bands you mentioned are all Marshall bands, and that is a very mids prominent sound with some upper mid tickle. The Mesa Boogies are known to be rather mid scooped, more like a blackface fender on steroids. So I also recommend the BHS Soldano rig. It has mids for days, kind of thick lower mids too, and is versatile. And the Brit1987 rig for quintessential Marshall.

There are many many more great rigs, but the ones I mentioned are pretty unanimously liked by forum members. Hope that helps.

TimRussell

@hisdudeness said:

@WigWamBam said:
Bought myself a sweet guitar today.

I need some advice on what apps to get.

What rigs for Overloud should I get. Which ones are the best?

Which Nembrini amps to buy?
Are the Overloud rigs better?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

I assume you already have some pedals

As always buy an analog amp and a simple analog rig

Distortion +comp+delay so you can first soak into the richness of raw guitar and amp combo

I would get into the digital realm only after you find what is the “sound” that chooses you

Also that digital app/software sound nothing like analog , some of them noise pollution (eg some amplitude apps)but when you want to record some stuff quickly , that’s when you will want to take a stab at digital stuff and if you have reference point via analog , it easy to kinda modify any modeler with gain staging

For recording the sound in you head , totally a different ballgame , I usually ask someone for best results

I would respectfully disagree that you should get an all-analog rig to start with.

Modelling is SO good nowadays that you could get something like a Boss Katana and not need anything else for a long time. This is a way cheaper, more portable and more versatile set-up than anything ‘all analog’.

I am speaking as an ex all-analog-signal-chain-into-valve-amp-only purist.

WigWamBam

I don’t have the room for an amp anyway and I only use headphones when playing.

SecretBaseDesign

I'd recommend checking out DB Audioware's 20th Anniversary. It's the one that sounds best to me (obviously, this is a matter of opinion), it has a solid AUv3 implementation, and it's easy to use. It also doesn't have constant pop-up windows asking me to buy new features or other junk.

https://www.db-audioware.com/20th-anniversary

I have not bought a new guitar for a while, but have been building them from kits (what else are ya gonna do during a pandemic?). Just finished the 5th guitar -- a Telecaster style -- with two more in the garage, being worked on, and another one on deck. I'm dangerously close to Nigel Tufnel land. The kits are amazingly inexpensive, and so far, everything I've built has been comparable to the much more expensive "real" guitars I've got.

hisdudeness

@TimRussell said:

@hisdudeness said:

@WigWamBam said:
Bought myself a sweet guitar today.

I need some advice on what apps to get.

What rigs for Overloud should I get. Which ones are the best?

Which Nembrini amps to buy?
Are the Overloud rigs better?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

I assume you already have some pedals

As always buy an analog amp and a simple analog rig

Distortion +comp+delay so you can first soak into the richness of raw guitar and amp combo

I would get into the digital realm only after you find what is the “sound” that chooses you

Also that digital app/software sound nothing like analog , some of them noise pollution (eg some amplitude apps)but when you want to record some stuff quickly , that’s when you will want to take a stab at digital stuff and if you have reference point via analog , it easy to kinda modify any modeler with gain staging

For recording the sound in you head , totally a different ballgame , I usually ask someone for best results

I would respectfully disagree that you should get an all-analog rig to start with.

Modelling is SO good nowadays that you could get something like a Boss Katana and not need anything else for a long time. This is a way cheaper, more portable and more versatile set-up than anything ‘all analog’.

I am speaking as an ex all-analog-signal-chain-into-valve-amp-only purist.

Agreed , digital it’s good nowadays , but as i mentioned I believe it great to start with analog to to get great starting point and learn the nuances that make it great

For example I have never played with a real spring reverb, so my reference point is simply another digital company software

Since you have played with valves , you have an a good idea , say for example, how the volume pot needs to sound at 4 and 9 based on guitar amp interaction and the respective amp gain staging

Many pros nowadays use digital stuff like kemper on stage , but as they are merely “carrying” their analog sound they have perfected over the years .

Of course there are exceptions, like some artist like digital bit distortion from the get go

WigWamBam

@SecretBaseDesign said:
I'd recommend checking out DB Audioware's 20th Anniversary. It's the one that sounds best to me (obviously, this is a matter of opinion), it has a solid AUv3 implementation, and it's easy to use. It also doesn't have constant pop-up windows asking me to buy new features or other junk.

https://www.db-audioware.com/20th-anniversary

I have not bought a new guitar for a while, but have been building them from kits (what else are ya gonna do during a pandemic?). Just finished the 5th guitar -- a Telecaster style -- with two more in the garage, being worked on, and another one on deck. I'm dangerously close to Nigel Tufnel land. The kits are amazingly inexpensive, and so far, everything I've built has been comparable to the much more expensive "real" guitars I've got.

Yes I did consider building my own guitar but by the time I worked out the price of the parts it didn’t seem like it would save me a lot of money though.