philipacamaniac
Fractal Fanatic
My wider circle of musician friends have a strong disdain for modeling, likely because of tone that the "L" company was producing for the last decade.
At church, I'm going direct and get tons of compliments for my tone. But I'm thinking the visual of missing an amp works well in that environment, and not so well elsewhere.
So here's my plan the next time I play out. The amp comes with, and I'll even plug into it (the FX Loop return). It's a Mesa "Class A" so it hits the ballpark of tone in most of my presets. I won't run it very loud because I don't really want the audience to hear it. I'll throw a mic on it with a cable that won't go anywhere, because my AX8 direct is what will be feeding the FOH and IEMs. I'll split the grid after the amp to an FX Loop block, so the real combo doesn't get IR coloring. It won't get my post effects either, and that's ok.
I had an M13 in place where the AX8 sits on a PT Pro (for delays and reverbs), so the extremely unobservant bystander won't even notice the floorboard change.
This will be a placebo test. They have the visual of the tried and true tube amp, warm and making noise and mic'd up, and no knowledge that they're actually hearing amp modeling.
I'll be very curious to hear the comments I receive on tone. Hopefully I'll only do the placebo test once, because the whole point was to not drag around the 90lb Mesa lol.
At church, I'm going direct and get tons of compliments for my tone. But I'm thinking the visual of missing an amp works well in that environment, and not so well elsewhere.
So here's my plan the next time I play out. The amp comes with, and I'll even plug into it (the FX Loop return). It's a Mesa "Class A" so it hits the ballpark of tone in most of my presets. I won't run it very loud because I don't really want the audience to hear it. I'll throw a mic on it with a cable that won't go anywhere, because my AX8 direct is what will be feeding the FOH and IEMs. I'll split the grid after the amp to an FX Loop block, so the real combo doesn't get IR coloring. It won't get my post effects either, and that's ok.
I had an M13 in place where the AX8 sits on a PT Pro (for delays and reverbs), so the extremely unobservant bystander won't even notice the floorboard change.
This will be a placebo test. They have the visual of the tried and true tube amp, warm and making noise and mic'd up, and no knowledge that they're actually hearing amp modeling.
I'll be very curious to hear the comments I receive on tone. Hopefully I'll only do the placebo test once, because the whole point was to not drag around the 90lb Mesa lol.