Afternoon Gents
Thank you all for your responses, I am extremely tempted to try one out for size and I think
@cardinal hit it on the head in the way I am looking at the device, its for times the JCM800 is not quite doing it. I personally don't use any effects outside of a boost, but again with the Axe it would cover that territory without me having to go on Amazon and order a new pedal. It kind of replaces my soundcard, effects spend, and amp GASSING in one device.
Funny enough I just trialled the Helix Native product, mainly to try the REVV patches that are being raved about, they sounded good, the rest no so much.
@Bruce Sokolovic
The editor does seem to be stable, I found nothing at all in regard to issues when Googling the Axe FX 3, not even sure I seen anything historic to be honest.
Bah, you heathen, how can you knock the JCM800 with a straight face
Each to there own, I think on its own it sounds too flimsy, but a DS in front and this thing roars.
In regard to Leon's videos, I watched a host of them, especially his one with a year then 2 yearly update, I also like his style of playing. I have not seen the DSL one you refer too, but I have seen his JCM800 with everything on 10 video....bloody lunatic. I will check more of his AxeFX ones out.
@markyd Thank you for confirming. To be honest I only record alone so I work on my own projects only so I don't have a need for anything higher as I am not even daisy chaining devices, its just good to know if I bought any other digital gear or I wanted to use the SPDIF out with my soundcard, I would have a limitation.
@cardinal Same here, I turned it on, played a chord and then sold my Kemper an JVM410h. Everything I have owned after has paled in comparison to the grit and bite this amp produces. I get your 'boomy\woofy' statement, I had the same issue recreating the JCM800 sound on the Kemper.
@grandinq Superb, glad to know its compatible. Out of interest, what Buffer settings are you using and what is your overall latency?
@rossipedia Man I hear you load and clear. I moved from Line6 for that reason, too much tweaking. Then went back to digital and opted for the Kemper over the Axe due to the Axe having too many options to distract me (I don't need anymore distractions). The Kemper sounds great but I felt the same as you. beyond a minor tweak of a very good patch, I was at the hands of the profiler for the sound or at the mercy of my wallet hunting good profiles. At that point I started to miss the tweaking.
The other thing that made the process difficult is there is no defined way to take a profile, this meant the quality, tonality and overall volumes where extremely random due to profilers having different gear and rooms to profile in. I will say, Choptones and Deadlight make some fantastic profiles though; I am sure Choptones does Axe models too.......don't quote me on that.
@Bruce Sokolovic Time to Google "Authentic Tab"
@FullThrottle64 Man it only got worse for me. I didn't find Performance mode limited as I was about to have 5 patches across the board for each song. The issue was Rig Manager was so bad it would crash, or not save the preset, or even worse just lose connection to the Kemper yet not notify you so you spend an hour tailoring your sound to find nothing has changed on the Kemper! I don't want to come across as hating the Kemper, it does sound great but it was developed into the ground for me due to rushing features.
@PBGas How do you find the sound in regard to its upfrontness (not even sure that's a word) when recorded. For example I just tried the Helix Native app, when playing any of the presets the sound almost feels distant, like some form of reverb has been introduced. I switched to my tube amp and it was right at the front of the song, in your face but not when flipping patches on the Helix.
I am asking but I did not check the IR used so unsure if it was close miced or had a lot of room ambience.
@touch33 Thank you for some comfort as shelling out two grand on a device, the support best be top notch. I hope I can say this without annoying anyone, but I have heard this forum is "protective" let's just say, about its investment in the Axe products........now about that front panel
Thank you all, a little more research to go and I may be joining this side for good
I feel at this point I probably just need to try one.
Mike