What amplifier/mirophone, simulator/effects unit or interface/plugin are you using to record lately?!

Personally I am all about my AC4HW for recording lately (sometimes run thru one of my AC30's speakers) with a 57 and/or an audio-technical condenser 2 feet out and 30 to 45 degrees off axis from the speaker cone, but I really like doing DI with a radial usb box straight in sometimes (mostly to make short riffy loops for electronic music) and then processing the hell out of the dry track with crazy plugins followed sometimes by serious BP filtering, that free amplion VST [ http://www.megavst.com/amp/audiffex-amplion-free/ ] or the JCM900 VST from www.simulanalog.org if it needs more shaping to sit in the track. I also keep eyeballing that Kemper Profiler!

What are the rest of you doing?

Until I get the Kemper later this year, I record all my stuff through a SansAmp Bass Driver DI, A Pig Hog XLR - XLR, and a Behringer XENYX USB 1204. It's great for bass but I havent found a great guitar tone through it all yet.

I've had to record straight from my SansAmo RBI once due to cable problems and I don't prefer it.

I've had to record straight from my SansAmo RBI once due to cable problems and I don't prefer it.

I am not fond of the RBI... I like the bassdriver well enough and the original guitar sansamp from the 80s sounds okay.

I have an RBI and a an RPM running together in my rack. It took so long to figure out exactly how to switch-board it up to get what I wanted out of it.

The bass driver is supposed to be the exact same thing as the RBI, but in a lower quality form. It's completely the opposite though. The bass driver is a pedal that I wont ever sell or trade. As soon as I get the Kemper, I think my whole rack is going.

Here are photos of my RBI + RPM mess.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/KaiNHooD/20150516_151632.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/KaiNHooD/20150516_155543.jpg

You have a lot of stuff in there boom! Honestly, my favorite solid state bass sound was generated by a bass driver pedal run directly into a 300 watt 70s crown monoblock driving a vintage Kustom 3x12" bass cab miced with an AKG D112, but with a DI from the sansamp's Lo-Z out hitting the FOH mixer too to blend it all together thru board EQ and a lil alesis 3630. If you don't want a true ampeg or fender sound then that cheap tech21 pedal is the best preamp going to my ear. I do, however, really dig the Ashdown heads. Highly underrated.

I saw a review of an Ashdown ctm-100 that made me want one. As a kid, I thought Ashdown was a cheap brand that made low quality products. If that was true, it seems they are turning around.

As a kid, I thought Ashdown was a cheap brand that made low quality products. If that was true, it seems they are turning around.

I am not sure. I never even heard of them until maybe '06? This guy who did some session work for me showed up with an ashdown head and it sounded just great, especially bi-amped with my vintage Fender Showman.