henryrobinett
Fractal Fanatic
I did a fish out of water gig for me last night. I played in a Steely Dan Tribute band, for the first time. Helping out a friend who needed the time off. Normally I do my jazz-ish gigs so I don't need super elaborate changes. There were some challenges. For example, I had a cool preset for the solo on Kid Charlemagne, but I couldn't get the clean, clean enough with that preset. I thought I had it worked out, but no. So I had to dance through different presets. The footswitch dance is challenging well beyond playing, and since this was the gig with no rehearsal, it was like, WTF?
Do you guys just practice dancing through presets with your feet? How do you organize your AX8? One had a volume issue. Not loud enough. I label them by the song title, or write the preset on the sheet music, (I had to write charts out for myself - I read music. No other way I could have done this!). On the AX8, if you go from a super clean preset to a totally overdriven, how do you manage that? On my Axe Fx IIXL+ I can put two amps so that's not so much of a problem. I suppose, with more time, I could have assigned an expression pedal to control the drive of an amp. Folks with super elaborate set ups. I'm curious. I hope to get another few of these gigs!
Do you guys just practice dancing through presets with your feet? How do you organize your AX8? One had a volume issue. Not loud enough. I label them by the song title, or write the preset on the sheet music, (I had to write charts out for myself - I read music. No other way I could have done this!). On the AX8, if you go from a super clean preset to a totally overdriven, how do you manage that? On my Axe Fx IIXL+ I can put two amps so that's not so much of a problem. I suppose, with more time, I could have assigned an expression pedal to control the drive of an amp. Folks with super elaborate set ups. I'm curious. I hope to get another few of these gigs!