| I got the idea from a tapeop article/interview with pete anderson..he was talking about using amp farm for all of his albums..and they sound killer for guitar.
anyway, I looked up amp farm and it's pro tools only so i searched for alternatives and found amplitude. I had no idea they had bass amp models, I was just looking for guitar amps. I've been running it as a vst effect in reaper and it freaking kills...no latency. in stand-alone mode? there's your amp with a laptop...just get a controller if you wanna change anything live, if not set it and go. feed a powered speaker and that's it. it's that good.
my favorite so far is two amps in stereo. a gallien krueger with a keely comp thru a 410 and a trace ba250 thru a 215 with a pig fuzz and a dynacomp. the drag and drop stompbox i/o is anther thing that blows my mind.
they nailed the sound of the stomp boxes and amps I've owned, so I'm pretty confident that the the amps and other effects have to be spot on as well.
if anyone hasn't, definitely try it out....the demo is fully operational for 10 days and if your audio interface is decent you'll get no latency with asio drivers. I'm trying to figure out where to get $300 to buy this thing...they have a fender-only version for $200..but h3ll...it's worth $100 more for the all the amps and effects in amplitude 3. | 
