Yeah, well presets are often somewhat difficult to share between rigs. Ya have to keep in mind different guitars & pickups & what your vs the person who wrote the preset are listening through can be quite different as well and can cause a pretty drastic change in how a Preset will sound on one rig vs another. The Volume you are playing at will also have a noticeable effect on how a patch will sound due to the Fletcher Munson effect.
That is clever and DIY. I’d bet something that was engineered to target this directly would be very nice.
That is fantastic! You could be on to something big here Piing. Some kind of a vibrating system that oscillates your guitar in silence but gives you all the benefits of playing cranked way up.There is a trick to experience the headphones as good as cranking it up thru speakers without losing sustain, feedback or physical interaction between speakers & strings/pickups.
1. Connect a small Bluetooth speaker to the Axe-FX Output and place it between your body and the guitar (assuming you are sitting on a chair)
2. Good headphones (I use Audeze LCD-2)
Nothing to envy from my couple of Mackie HR825 monitors!
I even had a backplate with velcro stripes to attach the bluetooth while playing in any position. I will take pictures when I find it
Lilke a drummer's "Butt Kicker" but for guitar - basically a speaker coil with no cone; you'd get the vibration but without the sound (though I suspect the guitar might become the speaker, but that's pretty much the point! This could be a brilliant idea! I'd kickstart that! It'd be useful for anyone who can't turn up super loud, not just headphone users.
I’m telling ya, this is a pretty phenomenal & brilliant concept & idea.. if it were to actually work I think ya got something big.. especially with Bluetooth, cause then ya don’t need any additional wires going back to the guitar.. and sound quality is of no real concern, cause your not actually hearing anything.Lilke a drummer's "Butt Kicker" but for guitar - basically a speaker coil with no cone; you'd get the vibration but without the sound (though I suspect the guitar might become the speaker, but that's pretty much the point! This could be a brilliant idea! I'd kickstart that! It'd be useful for anyone who can't turn up super loud, not just headphone users.
Dream Theater's new album has a song called "Out of Reach" where almost every note that JP plays in the first solo ends with it decaying into sweet feedback. It got me thinking about how people, basically my generation (I'm about 36) haven't really had the opportunity - or necessity, really - to play with loud amps. I bet a lot of us have only rarely played with a full stack and it's mostly been combo amps and bedroom level jamming when at home, etc. Of course there are exceptions, but still. Something like this could bridge the gap, especially if it was well engineered to provide everything the guitar is "listening" for if you were to stand in front of a full stack
Some, not all, preset creators specify what style pickups/position are best for each , look at the literature that came with them, best way tho is to trust your ears and learn how to adjust gain, input trim etc. how you like it.
