"Such Clarity & Definition.." Tosin Abasi ditches digital
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I remember Steven Wilson using Badcat for Porcupine tree. Great amps!
Man, I want to try the latest from Badcat. I've heard great things about them for years.
Tosin sold out. He got bought by the Tube Industrial Complex! Big Tube got to him!
Big Tube is coming for all of us!!!!!!!!!
I think that whatever makes the music is good. I have tubes and a Kemper. I like both.
For Tosin, it will boil down to what makes him happy and inspired to play. If he's "feeling it", the audience will feel it even if they don't know nor care whether he's using a modeler or real amps. Thanks for watching, appreciate it.
@@SaintLuminus Yeah exactly. Best tool for the job is the right one.
Whatever sounds good is good 🎸🔊🔊
Most definitely 👍
The badcat jet black is amazing !!
Oh man. Dying absolutely dying to try one out. 🎸🎶
Couldn't agree more. I love running my Kemper stereo and a couple Half Stacks. Friedman smallbox and a JCM800. The sound surrounds you and has beautiful clarity along with dual stereo fx and cleans up great with the volume knob on the guitar. It's amazing. After that, either one alone is uninspiring.
Wow! Now THAT sounds like a killer setup. My current rig is also stereo with a Mesa Mk V 25. Man real amps roaring certainly give an amazing feel.
The Lynx has 7 gain stages! I gotta check that out.
Yeah that’s amazing. I’d love to try it out and see what happens as you crank up the gain. 👍🎸
The soundman can take a DI from the back of my amp if they want to. That way I can use an atenuator to get my own monitor volume using a 4x12, 2x12 or 1x12 depending on the venue.
Ohhhhhh, great idea. I didn't even mention using attenuators. I'm doing something similar which I will show in another video. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
“…God only knows what else”
Pretty sure Tosin knew.
Great video... Simply can't beat the balls and rich harmonics of tubes.
Tube amps are still fun. I still don't see digital replacing tube amps altogether any time soon. Thanks for watching, appreciate it.
He was using Morgans for a long time before we went to Badcat. Hybrid is the way to go. Modelling is only missing the poweramp response when playing live for me. I modeled my preamp with the quad cortex and feed it back to the effects return of my badcat. I can have a bunch of different amp settings on the cortex foot switches and I have one cable run to my amp. I can do pre and post effects however I want with one cable. If I want to run direct to FOH I have another preset of the fully profiled amp and speaker. I can also do both at the same time. It’s a great time to play guitar.
Agreed, it’s a fantastic time for guitar players. 👍👍🎸
I'm in the middle of this where I have a Quilter 200 watt (analog solid state) Aviator Mach 3 head in Plexi cleanish mode and I get my distortion and modulations through pedals. It can be as loud as a JCM 800. I think IRs are a different animal. They sound equally as good as cabinets in a record mix but they don't push air like a live cab does I guess.
Indeed, my opinion is that in a recording situation, it would be very hard to tell the difference between a mic'ed up speaker cab and an IR with the same mic and speaker cab. Sit in a room with a real amp and cab or stand on a stage with an amp pushing air, and IR playing through a speaker wedge is not the same.
Do you feel using an axe fx or analog pedals is better for effects? JW
Great question. I’ve never used an Axe Fx, but I’ve heard from many that it’s effects are killer. Personally I use a Kurzweil KSP8 for post effects. I love it. In front of the amp I use a TC Plethora X3. If I want an accurate tape delay, I’d use a pedal, the Strymon El Capistan. But I’m sure the axe Fx and others can come pretty close. It depends on the intent and what is trying to be accomplished. Hey thanks for watching, appreciate it 🙏
i love both
Me too. But I still like dialing in sounds on a real amp.
I use my QC through a KSR tube power amp into 412 and direct to FOH. Best of both worlds.
Niiice!!! 👍👍👍👍👍👍
He just wants to be the one keep the tube amp alive. He can and has gotten his sound from his plug-in or axe fx. But the tactical feel of pedalboards into a tube amps can’t be beat. It’s just much more simple and doesn’t hinder creativity. Axe fx and plugins are just a lot more complicated so you always have to have a hand near a mouse. That’s where I’m at.
Yup, I personally don't like spending a lot of time mousing/trackpading around in order to dial in tone. Volume, weight, and tube replacement are issues with real tube amps. But plugins and digital boxes like Axe FX have their own set of issues. Just look at forums and you'll see tons of people fighting with software, OS compatibility, drivers, gain staging etc.
He’s using them because he can afford to travel with them.
Yes, excellent point. However tour budgets are getting tighter and tighter so I am still surprised to see him choosing this setup. Thanks for watching.
Not to mention they are likely free to him, or he may even be paid to use them. Did Tosin approach Bad Cat, or did they approach him?
@@r0bophonicGood question, I don’t know how that relationship started. Hard to say whether he gets the amps for free. Some companies, like Mesa Boogie, make the artists buy their gear.
@@SaintLuminus He has a ton of money. He drives a supercar. Same with Misha from Periphery. They can basically do whatever they want nowadays. Also, this tour was with Dream Theater and was in huge sitting-only venues, like theaters. So, it's a high budget tour with huge stages. They could do basically whatever they wanted to do.
Although, I have to say, AAL had the worst sound quality live of the 3 bands on this tour when I went to the stop in Clearwater, FL recently. Tosin's guitar tone was good, but the band as a whole sounded really muddy. Tons of bass, way too natural sounding drums.... just not very good. Devin Townsend and Dream Theater sounded way, way more polished. I've seen AAL live before a few years ago at a different venue, and they had much better sound. Not saying this has anything to do with Tosin using real amps though. I don't think that's the case. Just bad overall live sound mix.
@@justsomerandomguyman Thanks for sharing. Unfortunately we as the audience are at the mercy of the FOH engineers. Unless we are standing on the stage or at the very foot of the stage, our perception of tone comes from the FOH. Oh Hell, even the tones I've dialed in during rehearsals don't come across correctly on different stages.
The thing is that tube amps are the GOAT. If you wanna go digital, it's fine but you can also do a Tosin and use tube amps.
Good tube amps will always be worth something. I love 'em, and for now they are here to stay with the digital products. We have choices now, that's a good thing.
@@SaintLuminus yeah. I have a couple of amazing tube amps but when I can afford it, the live platform will be the BluGuitar AmpX.
I have yet to play BluGuitar, but I'd love to give it a try some day.
@@SaintLuminus Thomas Blug is a genius. Hope you will get to try it. I don’t have that one yet but when live playing takes off, the AmpX and two 412’s onstage will be plenty enough.
@@peevee605 oh yeah, I bet that rig would be fantastic 👍👍👍👍
I have a new badcat “ hot cat” it is fing amazing!!!!! End of. Why can’t digital freaks hear the difference!!!!!! Tube amps reign supreme. I don’t need any overdrive pedals.
I’m so jealous. I’d love to try a Badcat. 👍
W cares
Who's Tosin?
Lookup Tosin Abasi on Google. 🎸🎸
The Axe-FX is pretty much irrelevant in terms of guitar tone now (still great in terms of effects though). The Kemper was already better than the Axe-FX for the last decade, but even the Kemper is somewhat obsolete now. The new wave of amp profilers, IK Multimedia Tonex and the open source NAM, are just flat out more accurate than anything that came before them when it comes to just getting a really good profile of an amp for recording, especially if you are just capturing only the amp head directly and running it into IRs separately. Also, you can always use one of those direct amp profiles in the Tonex pedal and run it into a real poweramp and cab. That's probably the best in terms of convenience for live use.
Many engineers/mixers/producers nowadays keep real amps on hand and capture profiles of them along with IRs for the sake of consistency and recalling exact tones easily during the recording process. I think this is the best and most flexible modern approach. Tube amps definitely still have their place for recording, even if it's only for the profiling stage. For live, that comes down to the circumstances of the artist and tour and whether or not they can easily swing having real amps (often not very easy to do when traveling to certain places).
I was thinking about it last night while I was getting live performance tones dialed in. We live in such an amazing time as guitar players with a plethora of choices. And they all sound good, this is much different than 20 years ago when I was using a Line 6 POD. lol