This series of articles documents my journey into the software modeling world. It’s intended to help people with similar backgrounds and similar needs get into digital modeling and get decent guitar sounds without too much hassle or too much money spent. I have organized the tutorial into a few separate articles, each dealing with one important aspect of digital modeling. Feel free to jump ahead if you are not a complete beginner.

• 1. Hardware – choosing and configuring hardware for modeling
• 2. Common Use-Cases – ways to integrate guitar, pedals, amps with an interface
• 3. Reaper – DAW – how to pick good a DAW software and make use of it
• 4. VST Amp Models – some of the good amp models that I came across
• 5. VST Effects – some very cool effect pedal models
• 6. Cab Impulses – what are IRs are where to find them
• 7. IR Loaders – some of my favorite convolution plugins compared
• 8. My Presets – a couple of my favorite presets