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  1. mongoose_eyeball

    Owner of a Lonely Heart?

    I'm guessing there are several of y'all with Axe FX II patches using scenes for the different tones in this tune. I've never made one because I haven't been in a band that would play it. This weekend, I'm subbing on a large Casino gig, and it's in their set. I found a patch for the solo on Axe...
  2. mongoose_eyeball

    Backup Help!

    I need to edit a couple of things on my MFC (external switch assignments and such). But suddenly, my Edit switch no longer works. Before attempting the hassle of buying a new footswitch and swapping it out, I thought I'd download MFC Edit and do it my editing there. So I bought and installed...
  3. mongoose_eyeball

    Crazy, intermittent volume changes

    I'm hoping this is a problem with the cable or the external footswitch (and not the MFC or--god forbid--the unit itself). For the last few months, I've noticed occasional swells or dips in volume while I'm playing. It was so intermittent that I let it slide, but over the last couple of gigs...
  4. mongoose_eyeball

    Beatles-Era McCartney bass tone?

    I have a gig coming up as Paul with a Beatles tribute band, and I had a bass amp lined up to borrow, but it fell through (my bass amp died, and I haven't been playing enough gigs on bass to justify buying a whole new rig). So I was thinking I might just run an Axe FX patch through my monitor...
  5. mongoose_eyeball

    Anybody using a dedicated laptop live?

    I've been thinking lately about getting a cheap used/refurbished laptop that I could keep in my rack. It wouldn't cost much, and I'd have all of the advantages of Axe-Edit in a live setting. It's embarrassing to admit, but I can no longer read the Axe-FX II screen (except for the patch number)...
  6. mongoose_eyeball

    "This Program is not compatible with current macOS. . ."

    I just installed the latest OS update on my iMac (High Sierra OS 10.13.4), and when I opened Axe-Edit, I got a "the developer needs to update this program" message telling me the current version of Axe-Edit isn't "compatible" with this OS. So far, though, it seems to be working as normal...
  7. mongoose_eyeball

    Bang-for-the-buck Tele neck Pickup?

    A friend has had my MIM Tele for around a year; he installed a Fishman Powerbridge (a Tele bridge with peizos) for me, and he switched out the neck pickup to one of those SD mini-humbuckers, just to see whether I'd like it. I didn't, especially, so he took the Duncan out, but he ended up moving...
  8. mongoose_eyeball

    The Parts of the Dream that Confused the Fetus

    Not sure how to label this, genre-wise. I was going for "post-rock," but I grew up with Todd Rundgren and Steely Dan, so I always have trouble paring things down, harmonically-speaking. All guitars and the bass (an MTD) were recorded analog-style through the Axe into an Apollo Twin's mic...
  9. mongoose_eyeball

    Gate/Expander position

    This is a simple question, just something I've noticed but never really looked into. It seems like when I add a Gate/Expander block to cut noise, it works the same, no matter where in the layout I put it. On a real pedal board, for instance, I wouldn't put a noise gate first in the chain, prior...
  10. mongoose_eyeball

    Anybody tried the Laney IRT–X?

    It's a FRFR 200-watt powered cab intended for playing guitar through (it's not being marketed as a PA cab). They seem to go for around $500. I read a good review this morning in Sound on Sound magazine's May 2015 issue. Just curious whether anyone's tried one.
  11. mongoose_eyeball

    Three Cheers for Fungus!

    I finally got my Logic Pro X setup going (I bought an iMac and a UA Apollo Twin Interface), and I wanted to record something to use to help me learn the program. This is what I came up with; it's a short (two-and-a-half-minute) instrumental, kind of in a Bill Frisell/Kurt Rosenwinkle/Scofield...
  12. mongoose_eyeball

    PC and Mac together?

    After years of procrastinating, I finally bit the bullet and bought a new 27" iMac to use as the centerpiece for the home studio I always said I was about to put together (had to wait until I'd fully recovered from buying my Axe FX II rig...) I'll probably use either Logic X, Studio One or...
  13. mongoose_eyeball

    Preset Levels and Output clipping

    I'm always conscious of "level inflation" as I'm tweaking a patch. I have to be, because generally, if a change boosts the loudness of a patch, my ear wants to hear it as an improvement. It's kind of like the old Pepsi/Coke taste tests. Pepsi tended to win because it's sweeter, and after one...
  14. mongoose_eyeball

    Anybody had this issue before?

    I played a double yesterday with a singer down from Nashville. The first was the 90th birthday party of David Oreck (the vacuum cleaner tycoon), and it went fine. But the second was at this old VFW hall out in the woods near Poplarville, Mississippi. It was ancient. They had one wall outlet...
  15. mongoose_eyeball

    Synth options

    So I just bought a Carvin SH575: It has a built-in peizo/hex pickup with a 13-pin out for MIDI control. I'm about to get a synth interface, and wondering how many of you have incorporated synth into your Axe rigs. Because of the size of the MFC, I don't want a GR-55; there's enough going...
  16. mongoose_eyeball

    Any advice on relative levels?

    I've played several gigs now with the MFC and the Axe II, and I've yet to get fully comfortable with it. My biggest problem right now concerns relative levels. I know the fact that the stage is a different environment from the studio isn't news to anyone. I understand the whole notion that a...
  17. mongoose_eyeball

    The Scenes of my frustration

    Disclaimer: this thread starts out looking like it would be better placed in the MCF-101 Discussion section, but I'm putting it here because I'm ultimately asking for FX II programming suggestions. It took me awhile after my MCF-101 came in to decide how I wanted to set it up. I started with...
  18. mongoose_eyeball

    New Amp Model Suggestions for Bass players

    I know there's an amp-model-wish-list thread elsewhere, but I feel like bass players kind of get lost in the guitar-amp shuffle over there. I'm a doubler; I play guitar in two bands, and bass in another two. Currently, I only use my FXII for my guitar gigs, but that might change once there's...
  19. mongoose_eyeball

    First FR gig through a Yamaha DXR12

    The man in the brown truck showed up Friday evening with my Yamaha DXR12 Powered monitor/PA speaker, so I decided to make the switch to FR onstage monitoring at my gig on Saturday night. Man, oh man! I can only hope the engineer let the guitar sound half as good in the room as it did...
  20. mongoose_eyeball

    Backorder Question

    I bought my Axe FX II last August, when the MFC was backordered. By the time I got the "in stock now" email, life events had interfered with my disposable cash (I have two kids in college), and I couldn't afford it. By the time I had another $700 put aside (just before Christmas), it was...
  21. mongoose_eyeball

    House of Blues last night: Dweezil and his Axe FX II...

    Saw Zappa Plays Zappa here in New Orleans last night, and I was blown away. I caught their last trip through here around three years ago; back then, he had a couple of big Fuchs amps and some kind of pedal switching system with more pedals than he could fit on a board. Last night, he was...
  22. mongoose_eyeball

    Finally! I have control!

    I've only had my Axe FX II since mid-July, and I've spent most of that time in wide-eyed wonder, like a pedophile at a toddler beauty pageant. Since the MFC-101 is still back-ordered, I've had an excuse for not settling down to business and actually beginning to organize patches into gig-ready...
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