mtmartin71 said:Scott Peterson said:This topic - 'deviating' from the real 'base' model - is not a negative.
It's the jumping off point folks need to accept and understand. The Axe-FX can be better than any given 'real' amp; folks get so caught up in trying to create what 'is', warts and all, that they lose sight that with the power of the Axe-FX you can create what SHOULD be instead.
The haters get caught up in that trap, 'how can a copy of something be better than the something it copies?'; when the real 'target' here is good tone. I look at the base amp model blocks as jumping off points, touchstones where you can then optimize them past what you can do in real life.
Why limit yourself? You have the black box, create your own reality.
Sorry. Didn't mean to infer it was a negative if I did. For me, it was just confusing as far as feeling the need to use advanced parameters to fix any perceived shortcomings. I get that people may want to mess with parameters to customize their amp block. I just wanted to avoid the rathole of trying to "fix" the AxeFX's sound i.e. harsh high end not present in the real models etc. I think what I'm reading is that 9.0 really does a good job of closing the gap further between tube amp and digital amp. From a personal standpoint, I didn't want to get too caught up in customizing the amps as I'd prefer to use "stock" models so that patch changes are easier to digest with new FW updates (which are frequent). I figured the more I'd change, the more I'd have to remember to retweak with an update. The more I relied on the stock parameters, the less I'd have to tweak.
Good point. I've found, being deeply into tweaking the advanced tab personally, that this is really of no consequence. With V9.0 I've simply set everything in the amp block to default and tweaked it back; most models (once I got my head around the new changes to the underlying power amp algorithms) was pretty quick.
To me the advanced tab is less about 'fixing' any perceived weakness, and more about simply making good, better; better, great. And great, fantastic. They are mostly refinements that simply enhance the inherent 'goodness'.
I'll close with this - trust your ears. Just because something is defaulted some way, does not mean you should not at least try to change it just to hear the difference. Trust what you hear and feel.