Ah, so you just confirmed I know something!!
Haha!
Yes for the Week 1 challange I went straight into my Focusrite, but for Week 2 I am planning on using either USB or the XLR, and apply some of the amp sim capability.
This of course leads to countless iterations of what tone I think works with the song.
Bad Moon Rising is tough as you can barely hear the bass in the mix, so I am trying to pick a tone that makes me happy. With 8,356 or so (haha) combos to choose from, this is harder than learning the damn song.
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right, I wonder about that sometimes. I downloaded a free cab sim a while ago. there was like 4-5 different cabs modeled. when I clicked on the folder to open it, there was over 100 sims for each cab, over 600 different files in total. different combos of mics, mic placement, heads, etc. I mean who can listen to 600 files? I wound up randomly choosing one file for each mic to compare and trashing 95% of the files, unheard.
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Someday theyāll manage to design knobs, sliders and menus to do what we want instead of loading a different file for each change! At least we donāt have to type the file in each time we turn it on.
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Iām just floored by the VMT. It sounds absolutely great. Iām talking the tone of a $3k tube amp coming out of a 40 watt practice amp goodā¦especially paired up with the BDI-21 (readjusted all the settings though). Just an incredible value on a pedal even though it is $200. I have it as always on now!
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Havenāt even tried it on my gigging rig yet! Also it sounds superb into a DAW as well.
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So? Lol
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Itās a great buy, basically the real thing. The wine cellar is ābig tone for a little priceā and is a great solution for people on a budget who still want the tone shaping but donāt want to drop $200+ on a Tech 21 product. But the Tech 21 products are phenomenal. They even have a Geddy Lee signature pedal as he was a Tech 21 user.
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It might be the all around best pedal. Like, of all.
I love all their pedals but the VMT is just so generally good.
The VT Bass DI Pam just got is up there too. Out of all the preamps I had I liked it and the ValveDrive the best. Nothing is going to top the ValveDrive for me for what it does, but the VT Bass DI did a lot more. The ValveDrive sounds better as a tube sounding preamp, but thatās all it does 
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It didnāt take me long, experimenting with the Wine Cellar, to realize this technology is exactly what I need. Sooooooā¦ I decided to go with the Rolls Royce in the category. I had the money to spend on it, so I went for it.
Iāll have it tomorrow!
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It is pretty amazing what it does for your tone isnāt it?
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I love preamps. Good, colorful ones with a tone of their own, anyway.
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People have been telling me for a long time I should get a preamp, I finally got around to it.
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You certainly picked a good one to start with
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um ā¦ yeah but Iām returning it to Amazon.
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Oh I meant the VT Bass DI. The Caline is good too!
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Ah, okay. Yes the Wine Cellar is quite good, but I decided to go with the VT. I have no complaints about the Wine Cellar at all.
I hope the VT is everything the critics are raving about.
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I like the idea of mid control on it tooā¦heard the Geddy Lee one was good too, and heard in some demos, might be more colored though
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Iām seriously just in AWE of the VMT. I donāt really use OD much, but itās dirt sounds good! For me though, itās always on and the clean sound to me is fantastic. I got the drive knob very low, level knob at maybe 1 blend all the way up and era at about 1-2oclock, and that tone it adds Is just so FAT and bright with some nice color (slight but kind of Ampeg Tubey).
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VMT is my favorite Darkglass pedal. Even after I purchased my Aftershock, I felt I still wanted it. Iāll be honest and say that i thought my Fender Rumble 40 added too much of its color vs what I was hearing in demos. Still, it became my always on pedal ā¦ Until I heard all of @howardās samples on the EBS Valvedriveā¦ And now:
Now the only pedal missing is a Source Audio modulation pedalā¦
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Thats why I can justify buying Sterling Stingray Ray4, cuz it still says MusicMan with the music man logo on the headstock, its just smaller then the STERLING and preceded with ābyā. so Sterling by Music Man.
They both have Music Man on it, and althought they may de seperate cost centers, they are most certaiinly one of the 3 Ernie Ball companies.
That said, I would buy a Squire (the right one) and be happy with it even if the By Fender is too little to read from afar. LOL
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