Cyber Twin Patch Editor Software
I recently bought a Super Champ XD, along with buying a Rivera Clubster which I'm waiting on now. I decided to pull my Cyber Twin out of the closet to get it ready for sale on craigslist, but before selling it I thought I'd give it another listen. Based on my experience with the SCXD, I took the approach of creating very basic patches - a tweed patch and a blackface patch - and playing them as a regular guitar amp without all the bells and whistles except for reverb (similar to the approach of the SCXD). I must say, I've been very impressed at how good of a job the Cyber Twin does as the basic tweed and blackface sounds! It sure as hell sounds better than the SCXD!
In the past, I think I expected too much from the amp, though I did like the basic sounds of the amp. Obviously all the factory presets are crap, but also the 'Amp Collection' emulating famous Fender amps is also pretty crap since most of them have the gain turned up way to high, and the tone controls often aren't optimimum. I think Fender did a crappy job of marketing this amp. They should have advertised this amp's primary feature as the ability to emulate well known Fender amps - forget about trying to emulate any other manufacturers' amps (though it's somewhat possible). Also forget all the effects and high gain settings - make most of the presets basic Fender amps. Now I've decided to keep the amp. I bought it used (though in mint condition) for around $800 with a five year warranty, and the resale value is only around $500 now.
Even if I just use the tweed and blackface sounds, it would be hard to find a comparable 2x12 amp for $500. And the Cyber Twin has so many other bells and whistles, which though might not frequently use, they are still available if I ever want to use them. And when I received my Clubster, I'm curious to try plugin the Cyber Twin's preamp into the Clubster's power amp to see if the tube output makes much of a difference. One major difference between the modelers vs. The Cyber-Twin is that the CT doesn't digitally model other amplifiers; it reroutes the signal through different electronic components similar to the original amps it's imitating.
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Only the effects are digitally modeled. But I agree on your comments about modelers. I've owned many of the big ones, and though I liked the novelty of presets that imitated the guitar sound in a particular song, the presets generally did suck. In the end, I've never liked them enough to keep them. The one exception so far is the Super Champ XD, but maybe I like it because it's so bare-bones unlike most modelers. I've heard great things about the Valetronix amps too though.
Click to expand. Eos Count Software Engineer. Yeah, the CT is a handful of amp in most house-size rooms. Mine sounds nasty and spikey unless it's in a big room where you can open it up (like a big garage, minimum)--then it really shines, esp in a mix. All that said, you can tailor your patches for low-output use around home and make it decently bedroom-pretty, but the best goods really live at stage volumes with a band at full blower. As for dialing in patches that simply make it an amp, that's a big secret to these things IMHO. (I have an entire collection of amp patches sans FX, all set to run just on the edge of clean--great amps, excellent pedal platforms. See RigTips link below. Eye-opening.) There's a whole pile of really nice circuits living in there, and not just Fender flavor either.