Is podfarm worth it?

[koalamo]

I have alittle extra cash lying around after I purchase my snake and one thing that im still unhappy about is my guitar tone until i get more business i cannot justify getting a real amp as i am not a guitarist. All the bands I record are after that extremely modern sturgis sound. Is pod farm worth its cost or should I stick to the free stuff. I've had decent results but I'm still not getting the tone I'm looking for however I suppose this could be do to my mixing I demoed pod farm awhile ago when I had no idea what I was doing and can't demo it again :/

Opinions?

Thanks Guys <3

 

[MindMunch]

For the guitar tone alone I think you have better ampsims options on the market.
But if you need that Sturgis sound, this is what he uses... althought it´s far from just dialing a preset.

But yeah, IMO POD Farm worth its cost anyway. The delay effect is great.

 

[Ascendant]

POD farm 2 is so cheap today I'd say it's worth it. There are actually a couple of useful effects in there other than the amp sims, not that I like the amps at all compared to the free stuff but if you want the Sturgis sound then look no further.

 

[darthjujuu]

you can get TACT without podfarm... if you literally want nothing but a sturgis replica mix, you'll have just as tough a time dialing in the sound on podfarm as you will with 8505. But other than that, podfarm is such a huge and versatile package, it is most certainly worth the cash. you can use it for anything...

 

[koalamo]

I guess what Im asking is, in joeys productions the tones seem to be very subdued and fit the music very well and I have heard that podfarm has less realistic sounding simulation but it fits better in a mix than say a sim like revalver (read this in an old thread on this forum) The tones I get from the free sims sound almost too analog for a sturgis production so I'm wondering if podfarm would help with this or its just a result of his mixing.


Sorry about not posting this at the sturgis forum but I figured this would be ok to post here because I really am not a sturgis fanboy it just seems to be the sound everyones looking for these days -_-

you can get TACT without podfarm... if you literally want nothing but a sturgis replica mix, you'll have just as tough a time dialing in the sound on podfarm as you will with 8505. But other than that, podfarm is such a huge and versatile package, it is most certainly worth the cash. you can use it for anything...

Haha well put I was also thinking of that as well considering I have nothing to do clean sounds.

 

[Brandon E.]

If you want the sturgis sound than yeah...the cali diamond plate...I think it sounds pretty fake but it does sound good. 90% of the amp models are pretty bad though, and I wouldnt expect to get great cleans, you might want to look towards amplitube or something for that. Oh and the mic preamp models in pod farm can be pretty sick. Its really the only thing I use out of the whole bundle along with the tube screamer.

 

[MatrixClaw]

Try TSE X50. I've never been a fan of any of the free amp sims, but holy shit, that plugin rules. I have POD Farm Platinum and ReValver MK III and I haven't touched either of them for guitar tones since I downloaded TSE.

POD Farm does sound extremely digital, but you're right, it does seem to sit in a mix quite nicely, with little work to it, but then you're stuck with an extremely fake sounding tone. I've also never been able to find a clean tone I'm really satisfied with in POD Farm, especially if you want to use distorted guitars over it, the clean tone almost always gets drowned out. ReValver has a trick to it - Someone on the forum showed me last week that you have to crank the output on the amps so they don't sound thin, which really does work. I haven't had a chance to really try it in a mix, since I'm really digging X50, but ReValver is much more realistic than POD Farm, and you won't sound like a Sturgis rip-off.

I really like POD Farm for bass toanz though.

 

[darthjujuu]

90% of the amp models are pretty bad though, and I wouldnt expect to get great cleans, you might want to look towards amplitube or something for that.

highly disagree

 

[darthjujuu]

new prada (zombie EP) and new attackattack was speculated to be real amps, some people swore it had to be, rumors of BHood reamps floating about... but noop, was just podfarm2.0 with some new fangled joey buttah. Any sim can be made to sound fake if you one-shot every note of your DI's.

 

[oroinvictus]

Pod farm is definitely not bad. There are better sounding ampsims out there, but pod farm is simple to set up and fairly easy to dial in, and it's not hard to get decently professional-sounding tones out of it. Plus, it's pretty cheap.

 

[Robert W]

Why spend on Podfarm when you can DL free amp and cab sims that sound noticeably better? Personally, I think the Lecto sounds better than any Pod amp and the Guitar Amp Modeling forum has pages of free amp sims to DL as well. Also, the TSE 808 is a free DL and I think it sounds much better than the Pod TS.

 

[darthjujuu]

Why spend on Podfarm

106 amps, 46 cabs, 97 pedals, 6 preamps, and A/B/Y functionality in one instance... are why.

that being said, i thrive off the BTE/TSE stuff, but podfarm is a different tool. some of us need versatility for some projects.

 

[Sam Cruz]

Why spend on Podfarm when you can DL free amp and cab sims that sound noticeably better? Personally, I think the Lecto sounds better than any Pod amp and the Guitar Amp Modeling forum has pages of free amp sims to DL as well. Also, the TSE 808 is a free DL and I think it sounds much better than the Pod TS.

because apart from the guitar and bass amps that you get, you also get a very good set of effects that are worth more than what you pay for the podfarm imho

 

[C_F_H_13]

for me it wasn't even the gtr amp sims I wanted. I wanted the delays, fx, pedals, and bass sims. I actually like the guitar stuff alot for layered ambient fx or lead-ish stuff.

 

[Fbarre]

Does Podfarm include the patches from the Pod X3?

 

[Monsterbash333]

go for it

i was in your same shoes !! just keep this in mind,
down the road once you start getting good mix's and your mind around all this stuff a little more you will start to see huge advantages in micing amps.

 

[Enghell]

I'd definitely say go for it.

It's very versatile, you get a lot of good useful amps, cabs, pedals (plus the ability to use effects and stuff in your DAW). Are these simulations sounding exactly the same as the originals, no, but who can afford them all? And also to be honest, I don't care if they do or not. For me, at the moment I can't rig an amp+cab and record it even if I would prefer that, so the Pod Farm is a life saver for me and I can get all the clean and brutal sounds that I want from it, just takes a little bit of tweaking.