Recommend me an amp/speaker simluator

[ayayay!]

...something Fender-y please.  I was looking at the Condor Cab Sim on ROG but I don't think that's what I'm looking for.  Maybe it's just the sound clips.  If it does the job, then fine, but maybe the soundclips aren't doing it justice. 

Anyway, I'm already tired of lugging my amp(s) around to this guys studio.  He uses Pro Tools, and while I like some of the plug-ins, they don't play nice with my pedals before the plugin (duh.)  So I'd like all the sounds to be coming from me and my pedalboard, basically.  If he wants to doctor it up after that, then that's fine, but I need the amp sound/feel to be there before it hits the interface.  You follow me?   

So I need something that will replace the amp and still go 1/4" into the interface.  I don't even use the dist/OD channels on my amps, so something clean is what I need.   (I currently use an Epiphone Galaxie 25 or a Traynor YCV40.  Mostly very clean & warm.)

Whatcha got? 

Thanks! 

[petemoore]

  I don't have one, used to, what everyone else that uses a digital interface has.
  A digital interface.
  Works pretty good and 'can' inexpensive.
  Fendery cleans that sounded superb to my ears, but that was through a SS amp an 2x 12'' speakers, which would be OT for this thread.
  As far as analog @9vdc, you see what's out there, perhaps a Sansamp or one of those comb-filter jobs, was it XLC?...has like 12 opamps in a row...it got everything.. [input buffer, pre-gain, amp emulator, tone control, various filters,and lots of tone shapings, cabinet simulator, I forget all of the block-names, there's one for Fender and one for Marshall and...I started building on one and...got a bunch of it build and..hafto report that even though I only got about 1/2 way through, it was one whoppin' perfjob to work on, basically expensive in various ways..

[Jered]

  If your willing to part with $120 get a Vox VBM1 Brian May Special 15 watter. For doing just the type of recording your talking about, this is a little known gem. Nothing amazing when playing through the speaker, but using the 1/4 inch recording output direct, it sounds great!

[J-Bones]

As far as something to build, I have no idea.  I haven't tried anything like that yet.  But, I'm using a Tech 21 Trademark 30 combo direct for rehearsal and gigging at the moment and it sounds fantastic.  Cheap too!

[Johan]

for the "amp" part, build a ROG style fender preamp... for the speaker-sim part, perhaps there is something for you in this thread?.. http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=73342.msg596264#msg596264
personaly I use the MESA most, but the trace-elliot gets used too..it has much more lowend, wich I suspect would sound more "fendery"...
j

[km-r]

i think mr petemoore is referring to the LXH2 marhsall/fender amp and cabinet simulator...

its a really mostrous kind of circuit to build...

ive build the marshall version long time ago and MAN it was a killer!
im going to rebuild it with low-noise resistors after a few days.

http://hem.passagen.se/amps/
http://home3.netcarrier.com/~lxh2/marsh.html

[ayayay!]

Awesome responses guys!  Thanks!  This gets me pointed in the right direction.