Authentic bass tone with no amp?

[Orkin]

Thats what I thought, I'll try them with copper or something and see what happens *goes away to purchase several thousand guitars*, plastic just smashes all the time, my guitars are accidentally abused, im a bit too clumsy. But hey! At my school they wont let us bring our own guitars in at risk of electricution... health and saftey is nuts >__> thats why I was wondering, I thought it seemed strange that a few variable resistors, two magnets and an input could frazzle you.

Again, cheers for putting up with my daft rookie questions *clicks on a few adverts*,

Owen

[brandondrury]

I thought it seemed strange that a few variable resistors, two magnets and an input could frazzle you.

Exactly! While it's possible that it may hurt if you were struck by lightning holding your guitar, I just can't imagine how there would be enough kinetic energy in a guitar string disrupting a magnetic field to even light up an LED. (Of course, if memory serves me, LEDs aren't big fans of AC).

Brandon

[benniferj]

I would highly suggest Diing in to your interfaces preamp and then running the amp modelling plugin, amplitube. This is available in vst or au form so you can use it with cubase, logic, whatever. Its an amazing bit of modelling software and it can emulate pretty much any of the marshall stacks for guitars and bass. Try it out, you can get it from http://www.amplitube.com/

[brandondrury]

Is it any better than Native Instrument's Guitar Rig? I have it. It came with Komplete 3. It's useless for guitar in music where real guitars are important. You could probaby find a way to use it in a Madonna song or something, I guess.

Brandon

[benniferj]

well, personally i'm a drummer, not a guitarist or indeed a bassist so I cant give the ultimate lowdown. But when band mates have been over for a jam and I showed them it they have been incredibly impressed. It may not beat a real amp if you spend a lot of time getting the perfect recording tone and mic positioning, etc... but the practicality of being able to just plug in and play/record, at a low volume (ie work on tracks at night quietly) its great. The bass tone is just unreal through it, my friend has a fairly high end warwick bass and it was brilliant through that. Guitar was also impressive and thats just using the stock presets.

Try out the free trial and see what you think!

[Orkin]

I'll give it a shot!

Woah, I've not been on here in ages, I need to post more but musical stuff has been in a lull recently for me.

[Orkin]

Tried it, did some funny stuff with the signal, huge amounts of wailing feedback and I dont see its practicality. Ah well.