The PRS and JST cabs also have the added benefit of 4 different mic sounds to choose from – a condenser, a 421, and 2 different 57 positions. This opens up a world of possibilities and gives you that much more control over your tone. Toneforge JR has 3 choices for this, a PRS Stealth cab, a JST cab, and an incredibly handy addition, an IR loader where you can load any of your own 3rd party cab IRs.

From there you can pick what I find to be one of the most important parts of the signal chain – the cab. There’s also a simple one-knob gate that’s pretty idiot-proof, and also really fast to accommodate Jason’s style of stuttering, lightning-fast chuggy rhythm style. This will get you pretty far, although I feel as though these controls are not the most powerful I’ve encountered on an amp before – it’s hard to stray too far from the core sound at this point. This is your starting point – the most basic of the controls are present here, the typical tone stack for each, plus one special control (Shimmer for clean, Clarity for rhythm and Edge for lead). The plugin starts with a selection of 3 different amp tones – clean, rhythm, and lead amp tones, each very distinct. over at Toneforge to be a start-to-finish complete guitar recording chain in a single plugin, based on the tones heard on Jason Richardson’s debut solo album I. That means of course that when they were designing it, they were shooting for something that could nail the album’s tones for people who really like that sound, but they didn’t just make it a single, inflexible sound – they gave you all the tools you need to craft a complete tone of your own, top-to-tails. Toneforge Jason Richardson is a plugin designed by Joey Sturgis and co. But some signature products are designed to be as useful a tool for someone else entirely than the artist in question as well, and sometimes you hear a sound and you just have to have it. The chances of that particular instrument suiting your needs as well are not fantastic. When it comes to music gear, a signature product is designed in collaboration with the artist based on their needs, not yours.

I own some and use them often, yet I’m perplexed when I think about the concept – what do someone else’s preferences have to do with what I want? Like Beyonce endorsing Pepsi is going to make my tastebuds the same as hers (I actually love Pepsi and Beyonce but that’s not the point).

Signature products are something that I go back and forth about.

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