The idea that the tube amp Vs digital amp modeller debate is now somehwat redundant isn't because one has emerged as 'better'. It's because there's plenty of evidence pro players use both according to their needs. Pick your tools according to the job, as they say. And that idea has gained even more traction now the famously modelling immune Jim Root has come out as a Neural DSP Quad Cortex user with Slipknot during an interview with amp builder Dave Friedman and co-host Marc Huzansky for their Tone-Talk podcast.
"Just recently, and this is sort of blasphemous and sacrilegious, and I told myself and everybody out there that's listening in the guitar world that I talked to on my Instagram, I might have fibbed a little bit and said 'never' with the digital modelling shit," admitted Root. "But we have new racks for smaller venues and I do have a Quad Cortex, but I'm trying to do a workaround with that. And it's working and I used it at Pappy & Harriet's, and I used it for Sick New World.
