This is presented just as it was done. I shot a lot of video to go with reviews of gear and ended up just stringing all the guitar performance stuff together for relative reference out of curiosity. I am posting it because it is relevant to a lot of the questions I've seen and that are sent to me off the boards about a few topics of interest, especially concerning the Atomic CLR. I am in a review period with it and am thus far enthusiastically impressed, but have much more to do yet before I do my in-depth review of it.
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Here's the same phrase (which is an original song called "725" I did back in 2000 and is on my "Rainshine" CD) recorded direct (same preset, same guitar):
No conclusions, no commentary, no nothing but a lot of me doing similar types of playing specific passages with different speakers as the only variable.
This started as various footage for a review on the Luxxtone El Machete 22 guitar and the various speaker cabs I'm also reviewing. I cut similar types of playing, used the same preset, moved each speaker out/in to the same location and angle and level checked before I hit 'record' to be as objective as possible in at least the relation between the four different speakers. Everything is recorded 'live' in the room with my Zoom Q3HD (which does have built in compression/limiting for loud signals) only. No post processing. What you hear is exactly what the Zoom did to it.
All recorded with one preset, levels equaled from each speaker relative to each other before recording. My home studio is a treated room and this was done at a relative volume of about +110db.
Guitar: Luxxtone El Machete 22
Processor: Fractal Audio Axe-FX II
Monitors (in order of appearance):
Tannoy VX12 (Powered by Matrix GT1500FXBD) (Starts at 0:00)
Tannoy VX12HP (Powered by Matrix GT1500FXBD) (Starts at 3:23)
RCF NX 12-SMA (Starts at 7:12)
Atomic Amplifiers CLR (Starts at 11:15)
This isn't scientific, it is not conclusive, it isn't anything but an interesting data point (with a whole lot of needless pentatonic wankery by me) and uncomfortably close shots of my ugly mug. LOL.
This was all done with one preset and no changes were done to change the tones except on the guitar (though you'll hear a Flanger and some delay for one short take on the intro to Barracuda somewhere in there). The idea was to show the dynamic behavior of the Luxxtone and its Motor City pickups working with the very dynamic Fractal Audio Axe-FX II JCM800 tone I tend to gravitate to.
I realize right up front that this is a LOT of what it is and could be whittled down to one minute of each speaker (or less). This wasn't going to be a 'release' video but the emails and PM's from a lot of people caused me to check how this worked out and I am just posting in essence the raw performance stuff in it's entirety.
I've found that each of these combinations presented here are pro level in terms of what they deliver. All are expensive solutions relative to what many people are comfortable spending when approaching direct-to-FOH/FRFR setups initially; but I've been comfortable and enjoying direct-to-FOH/FRFR based rigs since 2007 and have worked with/reviewed/owned literally dozens and dozens of solutions to building a rig around this paradigm.
I'm hoping with this to add a data point in the discussion and hopefully better inform at some level the journey that many guitarists that are looking into FRFR setups are considering.
***********EDIT************
Courtesy of Chris@KatsuKuriMedia - here is a quick snippet to better isolate the differences. THANK YOU CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
******EDIT**********
Here's the same phrase (which is an original song called "725" I did back in 2000 and is on my "Rainshine" CD) recorded direct (same preset, same guitar):
No conclusions, no commentary, no nothing but a lot of me doing similar types of playing specific passages with different speakers as the only variable.
This started as various footage for a review on the Luxxtone El Machete 22 guitar and the various speaker cabs I'm also reviewing. I cut similar types of playing, used the same preset, moved each speaker out/in to the same location and angle and level checked before I hit 'record' to be as objective as possible in at least the relation between the four different speakers. Everything is recorded 'live' in the room with my Zoom Q3HD (which does have built in compression/limiting for loud signals) only. No post processing. What you hear is exactly what the Zoom did to it.
All recorded with one preset, levels equaled from each speaker relative to each other before recording. My home studio is a treated room and this was done at a relative volume of about +110db.
Guitar: Luxxtone El Machete 22
Processor: Fractal Audio Axe-FX II
Monitors (in order of appearance):
Tannoy VX12 (Powered by Matrix GT1500FXBD) (Starts at 0:00)
Tannoy VX12HP (Powered by Matrix GT1500FXBD) (Starts at 3:23)
RCF NX 12-SMA (Starts at 7:12)
Atomic Amplifiers CLR (Starts at 11:15)
This isn't scientific, it is not conclusive, it isn't anything but an interesting data point (with a whole lot of needless pentatonic wankery by me) and uncomfortably close shots of my ugly mug. LOL.
This was all done with one preset and no changes were done to change the tones except on the guitar (though you'll hear a Flanger and some delay for one short take on the intro to Barracuda somewhere in there). The idea was to show the dynamic behavior of the Luxxtone and its Motor City pickups working with the very dynamic Fractal Audio Axe-FX II JCM800 tone I tend to gravitate to.
I realize right up front that this is a LOT of what it is and could be whittled down to one minute of each speaker (or less). This wasn't going to be a 'release' video but the emails and PM's from a lot of people caused me to check how this worked out and I am just posting in essence the raw performance stuff in it's entirety.
I've found that each of these combinations presented here are pro level in terms of what they deliver. All are expensive solutions relative to what many people are comfortable spending when approaching direct-to-FOH/FRFR setups initially; but I've been comfortable and enjoying direct-to-FOH/FRFR based rigs since 2007 and have worked with/reviewed/owned literally dozens and dozens of solutions to building a rig around this paradigm.
I'm hoping with this to add a data point in the discussion and hopefully better inform at some level the journey that many guitarists that are looking into FRFR setups are considering.
***********EDIT************
Courtesy of Chris@KatsuKuriMedia - here is a quick snippet to better isolate the differences. THANK YOU CHRIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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