...and yet they can’t survive without them   One of the very first blogs I wrote for Modern Metal Academy was about how, in the face of the exponential rise of amp modellers, real amps will never die , because modelers need them to survive. Modellers are great for their portability and versatility, but their tonal DNA lies in real amps; the tones they produce are copies of real amps. AI works in a very similar way. If you ask ChatGPT how to cook potatoes, what it essentially