When I'm at home I use my Fender Deluxe Reverb amp. I take my electric guitar to work everyday and use my computer to hear the output. I try to pick the appropriate amp and manually set the volume louder, treble high, bass low, so I can hear all the imperfections and work on the chromatic scale, R37, etc. Do you have any suggestions on manually setting up computer amps?
Kurt Schubert
Hey Scott - I don't use my computer for practice - I'm lucky enough to work from home. Not sure if you're using something like Garage Band or Ableton for sound. I was just going to say that a possible alternative for work is a headphone amp. I use a Boss Katana Go when I travel. Fender has the Mustang Micro - that might even have the Deluxe Reverb model in it.
I forgot - there is also this from Fender that you can use on phone and computer: https://www.fender.com/pages/fender-studio
Clay, I have some Neural DSP amps on my machine. I pretty much only use them when I take my computer to work and practice at lunch hour. I use a VOLT audio interface through USB3 that hooks up to the computer, and I connect my in-ear monitors(IEMs) to it and I can hear every little sound. Pretty cool actually. I was looking for additional advice on how my computer amp setting should be when practicing. Right now I am mimicking how Tomo told us to do it like I said above. Just wanted to confirm that is what to do. It's been working, but I agree – nothing beats a real tube amp.
Kurt Schubert
i just try to stay as far as possible from computers...
actually the first computers were built with vacuum tubes...that technology has been around for over a hundred years now, and now engineers are trying to recreate that vacuum tube sound with digital signal processors...i just dont get it.
but whatever floats the boat maaan and sounds good... 🤷🏾♂️