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A guitarist using software is not something you could have comfortably predicted, even a couple of years ago. As a rule the predominant guitar based creature likes to lump about big bits of gear, enjoys twiddling knobs and gets a kick from stamping on switches - and this they still do with abandon. While computers enabled the modelling of real amplifiers and created a new generation of guitar tone technology most manufacturers pumped the software back into hardware, completely underestimating the guitarist's ability to evolve into a more virtual environment. read more...

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