MattBowman
FAS Social Media Advocate
February 12, 2009 I made the leap and purchased my first Axe-Fx after seeing Dweezil Zappa talk about how he was able to use this magical box to recreate all the different tones he needed for the (at the time) Zappa Plays Zappa shows. I sold off all of my old equipment(Hughes and Kettner Switchblade, Mesa Single Rectifier, various cabs etc) and got my hands on an Axe-Fx Standard and my life changed. At the time I played in cover bands in New England and it made creating tones for those gigs so much easier! 2 years later I was playing in a headline show in Las Vegas and touring all over the country and the world and I've literally played thousands of shows now with my incredible Fractal Audio gear and I can't imagine life without it! It's made my musical life so much easier from setup/teardown, traveling, recording and every other aspect of performing! So thank you to Cliff for creating this incredible game changing piece of equipment, and thanks for making it so much easier for a generation of musicians to be able to faithfully recreate their favorite tones and create new ones that would've otherwise seemed impossible without an endless budget! Can't believe it's been 10 years!!