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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Very convincing.
An AxeFX, GT-1000, Helix all sound basically indistinguishable (IMO) when recorded into your DAW, but the feel comes from having a proper cab moving some air.
Through headphones, or nearfield monitors it always seems to be more like listening to a record than a real amp regardless of the type of modelling.
I've gigged solid state amps and modellers with proper guitar cabs and assuming you are comparing to something that's not relying on loads of power amp saturation they can pretty good (certainly close enough for me).
I did A/B a Helix into a valve power amp into a cab with greenbacks vs the same, but with a SD Powerstage and for someone listening I think they would struggle to hear any difference, but there was some difference in feel where the valve amp was a bit squashier and was nicer to play.
I regularly use 4 cable to replace my DSLs preamp with a GT-1000 preamp and I think that is so close as to be to all intents and purposes the same.
So although you may be able to reproduce a *sound* pretty accurately via a high-damping amp and a FRFR cab, it will not *feel* like a low-damping amp driving a 12" guitar speaker in a crude wooden box. Nor even sound like one when you listen to the dynamic response as well as the continuous - eg that resonant bass 'thump' you get from a 4x12". It may well sound the same to someone out in the audience or in a recording, but not to the player.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein