> Paul Najar: My idea of pulling a great guitar sound is to hire a >wonderful player with wonderful amp & pedals and 3-5 $5000 guitars >and stick a mic in from of it. > >I find it hard to get good sounds with cheap guitars, I usually use >ones that cost 6-10.000$ but then again, I'm not that wonderful a >player. The wonderful players make $180 Fender Squires sound good. That was my point, I was just kidding. If the guitar can just stay decently in tune anything goes if the player is any good. He usually comes up with a part that works on that particular guitar and in my point of view there is no simple answers to guitar sound. A virtual amp with a Squire can be just what the doctor ordered in some scenarios. I read that Neil Finn (Crowded House) only used guitars picked up cheaply in pawn shops during the Woodface sessions because he was tired of all the conventional sounds and that turned out pretty well. I have many great (and expensive guitars) but I often use a cheap Danelectro for certain jangly rhythm sounds because it just does a very good job (and I do have a Ric 330). For those very clean jangly sounds I often use the Guitar Amp Pro because I like the sound of it and the ability to change the sound if I need a little more or less ie gain. I have a 1961 Vox AC30 and and 1966 Super Reverb which of course are great amps but in some cases the virtual amp is just as good (or, dare I say it, better). ----------------------------------------------------------------- LUG Group Buy for Serato's Pitch n' Time LE until June 14th! See http://logic-users.org/groupbuy/serato for full details