I’m not sure why, but it never fails for me to be disappointed whenever I use an amp sim.
Whenever I plug in my guitar directly into the DI and load up an amp sim with a cab ir, it just sounds super flat. No dynamics, no life, just very lack luster all around and I have no idea why.
I have recorded guitar tracks while running a distortion pedal into a Mooer Radar Cab IR Loader and it sounded very good. But cannot for the life of me get an amp sim to sound nearly as dynamic when I run just my guitar into the DI
What gives?
Some dude on YouTube did a very in depth series on where guitar tone comes from.
I recommend the whole series, but at the end of it all, it boils down to microphones and eqs. So for the case of amp sims, just eqs.
https://youtu.be/wcBEOcPtlYk?si=9ptYqtJ7UZXxamUA