Best amp modellers 2022: 10 hi-tech solutions for guitarists covering all budgets and styles
Summary
It’s an exciting time to be a guitar player, where Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is able to faithfully recreate the sound and response of many a vintage and modern amplifier, all within one handy unit. Early iterations weren’t quite there tonally and were often looked down upon by tone purists, but it seems with every new release the gap gets smaller, and its only a matter of time before a modelled amp and the real thing becomes indistinguishable. As the name suggests, you have four independent signal paths to play with at any one time, and you can direct one to feed into another, creating complex wet-dry setups, or layers of textured gain to dig into as a song progresses. Handy features like hands-free parameter adjustments and gapless preset switching with reverb and delay tail spillover ensure this gig-ready tone machine stands apart from other compact amp modellers. Sure, the Pocket GT is about the size of a mobile phone, but in practice it simply scales down some of the processing power we see in the GT-1000 for a unit with over 100 onboard amp models and effects to choose from.
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