Try using the Octave Distortion with lower drive and then stack with another overdrive.Proctavia. Especially Satriani's sound he gets from it. Axe 3 octave distortion doesn't quite nail it.
Sold the lot - including Strymon, Eventide, Wampler, Dunlop, Suhr amongst others
I've yet to miss any of them
UPDATE: Sold the Kemper! Back-up will be an FM3, when/if I get a letter: My waitlist email was April 23, 2019 at 1:33PM EDT.Everything I’ve built (like Iaresee), my original fuzzface, big muff, talkbox, tube driver, crybaby, Octavia, and Univibe (old enough where all this stuff was cheap, lol), and a simple board for guests. Oh, and there’s a Kemper currently in the closet.
I just put my FreqOut on my III yesterday. I put it in a loop so I could blend and bypass it easily.
PSA. Before you spend half an hour trying to figure out why the loop isn’t working, check to make sure the output level on the front panel is turned up.
The Strymon Sunset OverDrive is the only pedal I have kept.Just curious to know which hardware pedals you kept since getting your AxeFX3.
I kept (recently purchased) my SD 805 and DT Drop. Simply because I just adore the sound of the 805 with the AxeFX and the Drop to me feels/sounds better but perhaps more because I have a rack unit and when I go to jam sessions I prefer not to lug the rack unit around. When I get my FX3 I would probably still keep the 805 and Drop but I wouldn't GAS over others. Examples. Boonar, H9, BigSky.
I use mine the same way. I primarily use it to add a background high tone floating over heavy reverb, single note swell lines.
I absolutely agree with keeping everything I can. I'm only partially thwarted, by the cute little 5'4" blonde that's been lurking around every corner for the past 38 years, clutching the visa bill...I worked too long and hard on building great sounding pedalboards to let them go. Keep everything if you can
Yup its all tools in the shed when you need them. I use my III for gigging when I run PA as it's in my PA rack but I just got done with Daytona Bike week and I used my amps and pedals because backline was provided ... was fun !Kept everything. I love my gear
Since the FreqOut is on a parallel path, I tried putting a heavy compressor in front of it (someone posted in another thread that they were doing that). It helps stop those squeaky note releases that it does sometimes.