It's funny how a huge crowd here worshipped the Ultra until the II came out and immediately dropped the gen 1 boxes as soon as they possibly could. Neophilia at its finest. Truth is, I have yet to HEAR anything that makes me think "I wish I could get THAT sound" be it Tube amp, AxeII, Kemper, Software, etc. The revolution already came, gang.
Rebuilding my entire rig/patch sets/etc just to get evolutionary hardware tweaks and endless tone chasing are not for me anymore, it was just an incredible drain on my playing, time, and wallet; and I'm glad to be done with it. Good tone is good tone, nothing will change that. And I have killer tone, right now.
The only time I want new gear or get tempted to tone chase is when I get bored and come back here or to one of the other guitar boards and hear all the chatter. So, I only visit occasionally just to check in anymore.
OG AxeFX all the way.
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