jerotas
Experienced
Philip said:jerotas said:plexi59 said:I never really have played a tube amp that I loved. I've always had (and loved) solid state sounds, for 19 years now.
I don't know anything about the quality of different speakers, but your comment above jumped out at me. If you don't like the sound of tube amps, I can see why the sound of the axe-fx would trouble you.
-Phil
Lets say that I love the sound of a great many tube amps on CD's that I own. But I've never heard one in person and thought it was anything special. I'm pretty sure I would love an Engl Savage or a Diezel Herbert, but nobody carries those up here in Seattle. I'd still be pissed off that the amp doesn't have reverb. That would piss me off enough to not buy one. I don't find it acceptable to have to plug in another unit to get reverb, especially live.
And why change from the Vetta? Well I love the effects of the Axe enough to want to see if I could just get rid of the Vetta entirely. Instead of having one rig for live and a totally different rig for recording. Indeed I have used the Vetta to get some very very excellent tones on my recorded material (some have said it sounds very tube-ish, and that they can't believe it's a Vetta and so on). I record it dry (mic'd with 3 mics), then on mixdown add effects from whatever better-quality rack effects I have at the time. Many many compliments were received on my tone over the past couple years.
If I indeed can't get a better heavy tone from the Axe-Fx, it won't be the end of the world. I'll keep at it though. I'll try the effects loop insert idea. That sounds cool
And yeah, and hi to you former ION members whose names I recognize