As long as you find a guitar with a sound, feel, and tone that you like and/or need, you will be set to go. For classic rock you want to search for Strats and Telecasters, for hard rock, a Gibson or a PRS will do you good. If you’re into heavier metal, you might want to look into Jacksons and Schecters, or maybe a 7-string guitar. Find a guitar that suits your needs best. I also sometimes use my drummers guitar which is a Gibson SG of some sort, or my lead guitarists Prestige Strat for a classic strat sound. I’m currently using my Ibanez ART series 120. An electric guitar - no rock or metal song is complete without a guitar. I can't really ascribe a specific tonal character to the Onyx preamps - they just sound clean and musical to my ears.ĥ. The difference is quite subtle, and is in line with what I've heard from other mid‑priced interfaces, so it is down to the individual to decide whether the extra fidelity is worth trading against half your computer's track playback and plug‑in count. There was a small but discernible difference between high and low sample rates, the higher rates seeming to give a fuller, slightly smoother sound that some might describe as more 'analogue'. The playback quality was excellent, so I repeated the test at 44.1kHz. As with most mic preamps that use standard potentiometers, the useful mic gain does tend to be bunched into the last one third of the gain control's travel, but that didn't present any problem, as I set the gain for a speech test at a 96kHz sample rate.
Plugging the Onyx into my Macbook Pro, I launched Logic Pro and immediately found the Blackjack available as a named input source - no drivers, no fuss.