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guavajelly
I understand. I also go with the flow of the band – e.g. in our funk band I use a fly rig direct into the mixer as we do in-ear monitoring anyway. Nice solution for me cause I use public transportation or my bike (fiets) to travel to gigs whenever I can and my entire rig fits into the gigbag. The guitar is one of eight instruments here so I wonder if I would hear a difference if I'd use an amp or a more expensive solution. The band agreed that the guitar sound is good – so I'm set.
OTOH in our organ trio (drums, organ, guitar) I use a tube amp because it gives me "the" tone and feel. As one of three instruments the guitar should sound the best it can. Our organ player insists that I use an actual amp here – not only for the tone but for the looks. It's also the most pragmatic solution in that context as we often gig without PA, so I have to bring some kind of "powered speaker" anyway – so why not the vibrolux.
BTW: I also had the american sound, but our bass player "stole" it from me – actually he borrowed it and eventually paid for it. I just ordered a second one for myself because it's a great emergency backup. IMHO the fly rig or Harley Benton American True Tone do an excellent job.
But I didn't try digital hardware (multieffects) on stage since selling my Boss GT-5 like 20 years ago. I tried the Kemper in a Music Store with headphones though and didn't think it was worth it – neither the extra size nor the investment. I also played around with the amp sims in logic – I may not hear as well as I did 20 years ago, but IMHO the analog sims like the American True Tone are just as good for clean tones. BTW – for a clean tone keep the "voice" control low.
The Kemper and the amp sims in Logic still felt different than an actual amp. In theory it came a long way with the impulse responses since I last had a digital unit – but honestly to me it didn't seem better or worse than what I already have.
I understand that you can't use your rig in the context. Honestly I have the impression that the drummer doesn't know much about recording a jazz ensemble if he insists on you going direct. It also seems kind of very selfish – does he use drum sound simulations?
But if you want to do as he requires you'll have to find a DI solution you like. I can't understand why monitoring through amp sims in the DAW is not an option – very, very old computer? If you can't find your tone with either a plugin in the DAW or the American True Tone you'll have to invest in something else (the UAD pedals seem to be the latest craze btw.) BUT I wonder if (1) you'll be more satisfied and (2) if your investment will pay eventually.
Tough call.
Very happy with it though, just for late night headphone practice alone it’s already worth it’s price… and I think it’s even a better back up solution for a failing tube amp than the Joyo American Sound I think, because I can just hook it to the speaker of the amp, so it’s also a good backup solution in situations where there’s no PA available (In the past 30 years I have had my tube amps fail on me during a gig only 3 times, but still….)
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