They probably are just..stupid? Anyway, being able to do good clean sounds is no great feat...I mean, POD 2.0 had good clean sounds everything that models can do good clean sounds. I mean jesus...it's clean...not much to worry about. The real challenge is modelling high gain amplifiers. Or creating original high gain models. And then making them sound good. As we have seen over the years, modelers (no matter how much you fuck with them) can sound realllllllly fucking good...for being a modeler. You can always tell. Always. With cleans, pfft, if I did a clean track with my PODxt and said it was a Fender Deluxe Twin Reverb mic'ed with an AT4033...you'd have no clue if I was being straight up or not. But let me do a clip with a PODxt trying to emulate a known high-gain amp and you'd be like "ugh I hate POD" right off the bat.
WOW.
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