well it's easy to make something sound better than the axe-fx II if you start out with trying to make the axe-fx II sound bad. It can sound bad just as easy as sounding good. Just tweak some knobs until it sounds bad and boom, compare it to something else. I mean let Clark Kent dial in the sounds for the axe-fx II then have the BIAS try to "match" that, like, I mean, sound as good or "maybe even better". This review is really, off.
Of course, Clark is such a good Tweaker he could probably make even that BIAS sound pretty good.
The video is funny/entertaining/comical so it gets peoples attention.
But really... DJENT? just sounds like noise to me.
Does Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Van Halen, Guns N Roses, Metallica, Megadeth, Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Randy Rhoads, Eric Johnson, Poison, Warrant, Cinderella, Ratt, Motley Crue, Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin, Slash, AC/DC, Exodus, Anthrax, Heathen, Possessed, Albert King, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Zakk Wylde, Brad Gillis, Jake E Lee, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins etc? Any of those musicians and bands DJENT? I don't think so.
I don't even really know what Djent is I guess but I googled a few examples and what I herad on youtube just sounds like CRAP. Djent=another word for crap. I guess much like Punk=Crap.
I listen and can appreciate to a wide range of music as illustrated above.
But what ever this new crap people call "djent" is not one of them.
I don't even understand why people would want to djent in the first place.
So any time I see a video like this that mentions Axe Fx and Djent in the same sentence I always pee my self from laughing.
I mean really? Does anyone need a $2500 axe fx just to Djent with???? It's still gonna sound like crap because crap in = crap out. Djent is crap.
That was most comical part of the video was the dude djenting with a state of the art axe fx.
I don't understand all the phenomenon of users on here though either that post all the clips of them djenting on the axe fx. With the poor chops & melody that is Djent noise, would be just as well served with a solid state peavey bandit than a sophisticated modeler like the axe fx.
So yeah in that respect, I can see why a $200 BIAS plugin would, or should anyway make more sense for someone that just wants to Djent than getting a Axe.
Save the Axe Fx for people that want to be real masters of music & guitar virtuosos like Rhoads, Vai, Satriani etc.
Really... I didn't think Djent music was a real thing at first, I thought it was a Spinal Tap type of joke.
Axe Fx is overkill for djent.
But that was funniest part of video.