Iām one of these strange guys who never had a real guitar amp - I donāt really know what Iām missing 
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True! At least you are getting very close to the real thing with the current gush of products. 
I still have a Silvertone head and cabinet from the late 60s. I would imagine it could be a collectors item, but I never checked into it. John Fogerty of Creedence used one to get his famous sound.
You missing the cost of replacing tubes, ripped cones, probably a back injury (if you went for, say, a Fender Twin) 
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Exactly why I am dealing with my back now! My Fender surely aided in my demise.
Some people watch sitcoms - I watch the āUncle Dougā channel 
The face plate is so familiar. Uncle Doug channelā¦LOL. 
Since you and I are both āDougā, it makes this even more coincidental.
I have the 1485 with cabinet. Bought it from Sears.
Jack White used a 1485 head and cab on āSeven Nation Armyā.
UPDATE: https://www.silvertoneworld.net/amplifiers/1485/1485.html
Ahhh. Did not know that, but that would make sense as he is all about guitar history. I like Jack White, but really didnāt notice his amps. Paid more attention to his pedalboard.
I downloaded the demo on SS-11X, and I am getting the same problem I have with Amplitube 5. Click mouse on a parameter, no action unless I click outside of the GUI. I updated Win10, and downloaded new driversā¦still the same, yet it works great on my retired Win7 machine. GRRRR. 
Hmmm, foonkyā¦
None of that here - smells like a Graphics card / driver issueā¦
Thatās what I am thinking, but all drivers are up to date. Maybe a setting of some kind.
Maybe try an older driver?
Other option: are you using a laptop with two graphics options (some gaming laptops have an Intel CPU with Intel HD Graphics + an Nvidia chip for gaming)? In that case trying the other graphics option could work.
Hmmmm. Will give it a try. Donāt know if there are options.
What a great idea Corky! Thanks for starting this. Like many of you I was using s gear for several years, it sounded the best to my ears. And there are still some tones I have from it that work well. I recently moved to THU. I like it because of its tone, flexibility and how quick it is to find tones that work for me. I hadnāt heard of Neural so thanks for that tip Iāll be sure to check it out.
I had been using a scarlet 2i4, but switched to a quantum 2626 recently, and itās amazing. I must be very sensitive to latency because even though I got used to the scarlettās latency and compensated for it, it always drove me a little crazy. I immediately noticed a difference with the quantum, Itās so low I canāt feel it at all and I havenāt even bothered to run latencymon on it. I think itās running around 3-5 ms. And it sounds so much better to my ears. Probably one of the best purchases Iāve made in the last few years.
Maybe as this page develops we can share
more tones and other plugs. When I get some time Iāll post a few. Thanks again!
Tom
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The Neural Gojira is definitely worth the price. From squeaky clean to chuggingā¦all are good. I have some Nembrini and Softube stuff Iāve yet to try, But this one has really caught my attention. Everyone raves over the Cory Wong, but I find he Gojira more versatile. The pedals and rack fx in the Neural plugs are phenomenal. I may have to do a blind comparative test, similar to the Leslie test I did on the VST Organ page, sometime back.
I agree, I tried Gojira and itās really nice. I still like Plini. But for certain 70s Marshall sounds I still love the Nembrini MRH810. Itās still the only amp (along with their chorus) Iāve truly nailed Alex Lifesonās classic tone with.
Me to, I have only had modelling pedals like the Line6 Helix, never a āreal ampā
I think Iāve about settled on a hybrid approach. Iāve culled the hardware pedals down to a very few that donāt have viable software analogs, using hardware amp heads, using Cantable/VST in the amp FX loops, using reactive load box then another Cantabile/VST setup post the load box for IR and āhifiā FX instances either pre or post IR.
A bit more complicated, but for my money there is no sim that can match a proper treble booster into a good tube amp as the backbone of tone, so after all the dollars spent thinking this sim or that sim gets me there, Iāve given up and going hybrid. Cantible/VST in the FX loop and for IR and post amp FX is just fantasticā¦and as long as I no longer have to transport speaker cabs Iām good with it.
I treat guitar amps like an organ/Leslie- anytime I have a chance to use the real thing I always would choose that. The virtual route is purely when the cost/convenience trade-off forces it. Which, for me, is pretty much all the time now lol
The idea of real amp/virtual cab makes a lot of sense to me. Iād like to experiment with that but I donāt even own a decent amp.
Andā¦ no longer hauling an amp head, foot pedals (with 9v batteries or adapters), extra cabling, heavier guitars, etc. As Iāve reached the golden years, the less I haul, the happier I am. Hauling a ton of gear is for whipper-snappers. 
Besidesā¦I enjoy seeing the faces of other guitarists trying to figure out where my sound is coming from, with no pedal boards or amps behind me.
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