A lot of fun was had - I got to play some gear, but as emcee, not much. Mostly stayed near my area, showing everyone my new Dingwall and AX8 setup.
Ended up just about 80 people coming through in total. Loads of questions, and a lot of people interested in getting more details and such, so I'll be sitting down with them in the next few months.
Common questions:
1) I thought the B7K was modeled, or is going to be modeled
2) What bass amps are in there
3) What bass cabs are in there
4) What on-stage monitoring do you use
5) How do soundmen react to the setup
6) Am I happy with it
7) Have there been any issues (crashing)
here was how I answered them each time:
1) There was a little bit of a communication snafu, and it's unclear whether or not
@FractalAudio is interested or will be modeling the B7K, or any bass specific effects for that matter
2 & 3) I pulled up the wiki and showed them the complete amp list, and commented how any are in fact usable - but also showed the bass specific amps (which generally spurred follow up questions about various favorite amp being missing)
4) Either my QSC K12 or my power amp into a ThunderChild 118
5) Typically they don't care once we get the level set correctly. Some make comment about how it is easier to setup (no mic'ing) or how nice the tone is, but haven't yet had a negative experience.
6) Generally yes, but there are things I wish / hope get improved
7) No issues with crashing on my AX8 or Axe-Fx II, but there have been bugs and issues reported in the forum, though they all seem very minor
But yeah, it was a great, fun event. We had reps from Ampeg, Bartolini, many bass builders and other Amp and FX designers/builders there. Even some of the amp/FX builders checked out the AX8, but I won't repeat the conversations that followed
And a little something followed me home. Who can point out the newest one in the rack?