jonathon's Reviews

Completely awesome!

I'm a novice musician who is trying my hand at keyboards, production, and guitars. I'm maybe a 2 out of 10 on guitar and that's what I'm best at. I have maybe 400 total hours of music experience and I'm 52 years old. I've always loved music and I guess since I'm older finally have (barely) enough patience to sit down and learn, so I've been spending 20 hours per week this year so far on learning keyboards, production, and guitar. I purchased a Macbook Pro, a Nord Piano 5 and I already had an EVH Wolfgang Standard, so I plan on putting forth a good effort at learning, hoping for this to be my hobby from now on. Anyway...I get so frustrated learning new technology, trying to understand why my Apollo Solo won't work well with my Ableton Live 11, or why I've tried a couple of guitar amp simulators and they sound so so at best. I've struggled with Amplitube wondering why their presets sound so horrible to me, wondering what I'm doing wrong. Even Apollo's simulators are a bit awkward to me and could get expensive over time. Last night, I figured I'd try this Guitar Rig 6 that I got free with something I purchased and the first preset features the Van 51!!! Omg...I grew up a huge Eddie fan and this is beautiful!!! I was thinking about getting an EVH lunchbox head and small cabinet just to get a decent sound because I gave up on online amp simulators, but this is just awesome. There's a Solo 51 preset that I just tried and I was smiling so hard at how wonderfully close it is to Eddie's tone that I had to leave this review. Very, very grateful for Guitar Rig 6!!!

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