How these guitar modeling companies are recreating rare vintage sounds for the digital age

Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds.

Touring musicians are embracing modelers as a cost-effective way to maximize their sounds.

Around 2009, Dweezil Zappa ran into a space problem. He was busy touring the US, performing some songs written by his father, Frank. Recreating those signature “peculiar sounds,” as Zappa calls them, required lugging around a massive rig — roughly the size of two large refrigerators — held together by more than 200 connections and cables.

“The challenge for me on tour was how can I recreate some of these sounds and not use the actual equipment that [Frank] used because some of it didn’t

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