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So does Brad Paisley, but it doesn't feel like 80 grit sandpaper on my eardrums when I listen to him.~
It might if you were listening to a dry solo'd guitar track.
So does Brad Paisley, but it doesn't feel like 80 grit sandpaper on my eardrums when I listen to him.~
Hmmm...Great playing but I must say that I'm not that impressed with the tones. It doesn't sound much different than my Axe-Fx Standard to my ears. It still sounds compressed and when chords are played it's like all 6 strings are amalgamated into 1 tonal sound instead of it being richly complex. I'll give an example: Previously I listend to Mark Day's Axe-Fx clip at Tone Merchants...then I clicked on his other link of the Cameron CCV at Tone Merchants YouTube - Cameron CCV Demo May 2011‏ After hearing the complexity of the distortion of those tones out of that real tube amp, I lost any gas for an Axe-Fx II.
Again, my point being that the tones that Peter Thorn has put up here might be a little better than my Axe-Fx Standard (although to me they don't sound much different) but they don't come anywhere close to the raw harmonic richness and complexity of that Cameron amp example. That is why I'm not really impressed. I was hoping for more of a giant leap forward sonically in the advancement of technology.
+ 1, 10 minuets creating presets isn't a lot of time and Youtube is the last place to split hairs when it comes to listing to guitar tone, all you really get is a basic idea of whats has been done. Some of the presets he dialed in were very nice wile others sounded like they still needed some work. As always Pete does one of the best jobs at doing youtube demos given the short fallings of what Youtube does to the audio, way to go Pete .There isn't a giant leap forward left to take. There are a thousand reasons why one youtube clip might have sounded better to you than another. The least likely of all those reasons is that the Axe-FX is somehow deficient of something that the real amps have. You're dealing with youtube clips for crying out loud, not exactly critical listening material...
I A/B the Axe-FX to real amps all the time. There is not a huge step left to take, period. If there were, I would have sold the Axe-FX and just played my amps years ago.
I personally liked Pete's clips. They were rough and obviously he didn't spend much time tweaking them, but I liked them. He convinced me to revisit some of the amp models I've been ignoring lately.
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There isn't a giant leap forward left to take. There are a thousand reasons why one youtube clip might have sounded better to you than another. The least likely of all those reasons is that the Axe-FX is somehow deficient of something that the real amps have. You're dealing with youtube clips for crying out loud, not exactly critical listening material...
I A/B the Axe-FX to real amps all the time. There is not a huge step left to take, period. If there were, I would have sold the Axe-FX and just played my amps years ago.
I personally liked Pete's clips. They were rough and obviously he didn't spend much time tweaking them, but I liked them. He convinced me to revisit some of the amp models I've been ignoring lately.
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