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Regal
Not tried one myself. I'm still in the put-a-duvet-over-it mindset myself. But I'm a knuckle-dragging retro-grouch when it come to this stuff. Not that I'm adverse to using modelling plugins when required . I do that all the time.
I just think if you're using a dummy load to trick the amp into thinking it's pushing a real speaker and taking the output of that and using digital modelling and IRs to recreate the speaker and the room and mic... is there much point in even having the "real" bit of the equation in the form of a valve amp at the front of that signal chain?
For me the magic of really great amp is air being moved in a real space and the complex interrelation of feedback and feel that influences the way you play. Maybe trying one would blow my mind but I'm not sure that taking a 59 Bassman and cranking it into an Ox into my DAW and headphones is going to come close to sticking a mic in a room on a cranked Bassman. I'm also not sure that former would be that much different to a good 59 Bassman plugin model when stuck in a mix and heard on cans.
This opinion is 100% suspicion and prejudice based on no evidence and I stand by it
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I have the Torpedo Captor and CabM combo, which I really like. Now the Captor X is out and combines the two for a cost saving, I think. Good IRs and the software plugin is good. I’ve made IRs of my own guitar and bass cabs for when I want my own sound but silently.
I only bought the two separately as I had a resistive not reactive load at first which wasn’t very good. Benefit of the CabM on its own is it has a modelled Bassman preamp so it’s a reasonable clean headphone solution all on its own. Captor X may be able to do that, not investigated.
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At the moment I use a Tone King Iron Man II Mini attenuator > Mooer Radar cab sim pedal for recording with a Deluxe Reverb, and it works well.
Had really good results in the past with an AC15 into a Koch Loadbox LB120-II, it had the cab sim built into it and sounded great.
Should say I didn’t arrive at either of those solutions just for recording, I mainly use(d) them as attenuators for playing in the house.
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Any recommendations for load boxes for recording with? I’d love a Waza tube expander or Oxbox but they’re (a lot) more than my amp cost.