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Yeah, I’m not sure. But I can buy into the idea that straining both the preamp and power valves and, crucially, the transformer, is where the magic™️ is, and that that’s probably the hardest thing to simulate digitally. Dunno. Did you see Josh Scott revealing he’d been using a Kemper in the JHS videos for a year instead of his valve amp?
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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