Guitar Rig 5 or Boss B3?

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I'm never going to gig but just record bass to my beats so was wondering still regardless as I'm interested in sound how does the two compare if I only need a resources of good effects?.

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

Podfarm is also good

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Cheers, I'm really looking to how the effects of the FR compare to the B3.

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Guitar Rig 5 is more suited to guitars than bass in my experience. It's only got the one bass amp and it's ok but not great. I've ended up going in clean and using minimal effects with Guitar Rig. That said, it's great for guitars and has some nice reverb and other effects units in it. I'm just using it less and less for bass and more for vocals and guitar now. I've also got Ampeg SVX which I'm playing with a bit more now and it's got more options for bass (being dedicated to bass that's no surprise).

The advantage that software has over hardware is that you essentially record clean and add the effects in your DAW. I'm guessing that with a podfarm you lose this advantage? Please correct me if I'm wrong! But I can't really comment on the podfarm beyond that as I've never used one.

You can grab a demo of Guitar Rig (Guitar Rig 5 Player) that comes with a few amps, sadly no bass amp but you can try any bundled effects at least. Also grab a demo of Virtual Bass Amp Pro as that's quite highly thought of too: [url="http://www.studiodevil.com/products/virtual_bass_amp_pro/"]http://www.studiodevil.com/products/virtual_bass_amp_pro/[/url]. Oh, and IK Multimedia do a trial version in their free Custom Shop software too: [url="http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/ampegsvx/"]http://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/ampegsvx/[/url]. So give 'em a go really before deciding.