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WOW!!!!I guess I could always tell the audience “yes my $600 amp sounds better than my $3,000 gear, but through the logic of apples to oranges it doesn’t really.”
WOW!!!!I guess I could always tell the audience “yes my $600 amp sounds better than my $3,000 gear, but through the logic of apples to oranges it doesn’t really.”
I guess I could always tell the audience “yes my $600 amp sounds better than my $3,000 gear, but through the logic of apples to oranges it doesn’t really.”
Some of us actually care about tone. You spent all this money to buy about an Axe and how it sounds to your audience is not important? Why would you question if I have played in front of other people? Is it so important that the Axe is better than a real amp for me to you? If you are happy with your sound you are happy with your sound. Is it trolling because I disagree with you? Is my experience not valid because it doesn’t agree with your point of view?I'm guessing you've probably never played for an audience, because 1) no one in the audience is going to notice a difference or care and 2) the sound you hear when you play that AC15 in your bedroom is NOT what the audience is hearing at a gig, so unless you invite a handful over to hear it in all its true glory, its kind of a moot point, on top of the fact that things that 'matter' on gear forums don't matter to 99.99% of the general public.
This place is starting to turn in TGP levels of absurdity where guys will have 10 page 'debates' about what type of screws sound best in a stomp box battery cover
That or you've done a darn fine job of trolling the regulars of this forum
Hi Jason - I have not. There is no return on the amp so not sure how to bypass the rest of the amp and just use the cab. The initial attraction of the Axe was to simplify things not end up buying even more gear to cart around. I understand that some people don’t like the fact that their logic doesn’t hold up under some basic questioning - no one wants to spend a lot of money and have the cheaper option sound better. But that is where it is at for me and if that bothers some that my experience doesn’t match theirs it doesn’t bother me in the least.
Hi Jason. Quite a few seem bothered by it. So if I want it to sound like an AC30 I would need to buy a 2x12 and if I wanted it to sound like a Marshall I would need to buy a 4x12 and then bring all these cabs with me?
It depends. Are you talking about mic'd or unmic'd cabs? At a gig (live) or in a bedroom?
The advantage of the Axe is that you have the sound of 100+ amps and 100's(mic'd) cabs in one box.[
I typically play live twice a week. Unmiced cab. Several hundred people in smallish to medium sized rooms. Ear bleeding volume as our drummer is loud.
I typically play live twice a week. Unmiced cab. Several hundred people in smallish to medium sized rooms. Ear bleeding volume as our drummer is loud.
The real AC 15 sounds very organic compared to the Axe AC15. It is hard to put a finger on it but side by side it is undeniable to me and others in the rehersal. I would like to get as close to that as possible. As I mentioned I don’t want to have to buy and cart a whole lot more gear but open to buying some more. I got the Axe for the amp and effects. I thought that I would use a whole lot of different amps but tend to gravitate to the Vox and some Fenders. Unlike someone else earlier in this thread I want my guitar to have the best possible tone for me and for the audience. Playing through the real amp is just inspiring somehow. In a different thread others have commented that they found the same with the Vox both live and recorded and that maybe the Vox in the Axe was not as accurate as some of the other amps.
Thanks! Any recommendations?If you were likely to use several real amps assuming you had them at your disposal, the benefit of spending money on a power amp and standard cab would likely far outweigh the cost associated with buying several Fenders and a Vox, not to mention there are always a host of other amps at your disposal if / when you feel like branching out.
Thanks! Any recommendations?
And what sort of cab(s)) would you suggest trying for Vox and Fender tones?The Matrix line of power amps generally receive high praise.
And what sort of cab(s)) would you suggest trying for Vox and Fender tones?
Nope. But I will. Thank you.Have you looked at Fender's line?
It's apples and oranges because he's comparing the sound of an unmic'd amp to that of a mic'd amp.
And what sort of cab(s)) would you suggest trying for Vox and Fender tones?