Anyone using fuzzes or drive pedals with Axe II?

[Hotplate]

One of the greatest benefit to Pete's pedals is the buffer design. Sounds crazy, but I like the sound and more importantly the feel of playing through the pedal better than straight into the amp. I find this to be the case with the AxeII also.

This is a good point about pedals in general, and especially fuzz pedals (IMHO). It's one thing to dial in a drive block to get in the ball park to sounding like an analog pedal, but getting it to feel and react to playing and volume/tone adjustments from the guitar seems to be where I fall short. I notice how adept some of the players on this board are with using the Axe to mimic certain pedals/FX (javajunkie for instance)- I'm not there yet. Not sure if this is something that can be changed or improved upon by cliff or if it's more about dialing deeper with what's there.

 

[Bodde]

I have one question about using a drive pedal through the Axe: I am using the Brunetti Mercury box through an overdriven amp. But I get feedback very quickly when pushing in the pedal.
Do you always use the external drive pedal through a clean amp? Or how do you handle the quick hard to control feedback?

 

[dkenin]

when running a pedal in front, what does your axe layout look like? Just input to amp and cab and whatever effects you want?

 

[Bodde]

Not sure if this directed towards me. But if so. Yes, just guitar-Brunetti pedal-Axe fx (amp-cab-effects) then to Matrix power amp and 2 Mesa Thiele cabs.

 

[dkenin]

Yeah anybody, I just wanted to see how they had them used. I love my satchurator for pointless, egregious shredding between songs to piss off the rest of the band, and now I can have it!

Not sure if this directed towards me. But if so. Yes, just guitar-Brunetti pedal-Axe fx (amp-cab-effects) then to Matrix power amp and 2 Mesa Thiele cabs.