200man
Power User
First of all...thank you axe-fx team for producing this product.
I bought the axe fx ii xl+...and it has greatly simplified my work flow.
Though I understand this box, with all the fun in it, could be a horrible distraction.
The intent of this exercise was to have an easy way to directly record a jazz guitar...with no compromise.
Unless I'm missing something this box does it.
While I was impressed with the stock presets for jazz..I was floored at what tone matching could do in conjunction.
I will post the tone match in the future...here is what I did:
recorded my gibson l5-ces...deluxe reverb amp->jbl d130f 15" speaker->akg 414 mic->rme fireface ufx mic pre
Then I did the tone match thing...
Never had such a balanced tonal result right out the box. It sounded real good...no weird digital artifacts or peculiarities at all. Sounded like a perfectly analog result. This stopped me in my tracks.
I have toyed in the past with digitech processors, pods, palmer pdi09, etc. I found them unusable as direct recorders for different reasons but especially because of the way "pick noise" was handled.
All I can say is again....thank you folks!
...and I haven't even made it to the fun stuff.
I bought the axe fx ii xl+...and it has greatly simplified my work flow.
Though I understand this box, with all the fun in it, could be a horrible distraction.
The intent of this exercise was to have an easy way to directly record a jazz guitar...with no compromise.
Unless I'm missing something this box does it.
While I was impressed with the stock presets for jazz..I was floored at what tone matching could do in conjunction.
I will post the tone match in the future...here is what I did:
recorded my gibson l5-ces...deluxe reverb amp->jbl d130f 15" speaker->akg 414 mic->rme fireface ufx mic pre
Then I did the tone match thing...
Never had such a balanced tonal result right out the box. It sounded real good...no weird digital artifacts or peculiarities at all. Sounded like a perfectly analog result. This stopped me in my tracks.
I have toyed in the past with digitech processors, pods, palmer pdi09, etc. I found them unusable as direct recorders for different reasons but especially because of the way "pick noise" was handled.
All I can say is again....thank you folks!
...and I haven't even made it to the fun stuff.