Oh and another thing to add to my whinge....
These "moddelling" packages are sold on the premise of "come listen to how good our samples are". To that end, I can confirm that nothing made me yell an obscenity more than the day I received the Pod X3 - purchasing on the basis that the exact same samples that were offered on the website to show off their product could be downloaded into your very own unit. I did like the samples and was convinced they sounded so much better than other offerings I had heard. Accordingly I finally decided the day of miking up my JCM800 were over and I took the plunge and bought one.
So eager I was when the pretty boxed unit arrived at my doorstep, I unpacked it, plugged in, loaded the web samples, and consequenly and cruley learnd they in fact sounded nothing like what I heard. I felt like a women who had just realised her husband had been having an affair! The penny dropped slowly and my brain yelled to me in an unforgiving tone........you silly fool, some pretty good professional studio post production went onto those web samples. How could I have been that stupid?
It made me realise with a great audio engineer and high quality studio, you can post produce a pignose guitar amp and it will sound good. The quality is in the post production engineers mixing skills and the studio. Try the same samples paramter for paramter as they use but in your home environment, and I honestly believe its a different story. Peace.
