Hi everyone, Happy new Year to you all.
Before I bought my Axe FX 2 XL I got rid of all my high wattage guitar amps because they were just too loud for most gigs and I am micing them up through front of house PA anyway. So, I moved to low wattage amps from 5 to 13 watt instead. I normally set the amp volume high and just use my little finger on the guitar's volume pot to roll from cleanish to full on overdrive. I guess you could say it is the old fashioned way of doing things but since I adopted this way of working it is very easy to change your sound 'on the fly' at gigs as required and it puts all the control in the fingers.
Some amps (even small ones) however can get 'hissy' when you do this as the are running at full tilt or damn near it.
Before Christmas I was working on a preset based on the Supro model and it's 1 x 15 speaker cab sim to try and achieve this but again I got a bit of hiss going on. This is quite normal as it happens with actual amps too and the Axe fx is emulating their behaviour anyway. But I would love to get this without any hiss (I know I can use a gate).
But my question is, what in your opinion is the best low wattage amp model in the Quantum 6.02 to try and do this with that will stay reasonably 'quiet' with least amount of hiss?
I am trying to avoid using any pedals or drive blocks at all. My reason for this is simple. I do a lot of 'pick up playing' with bands at short notice when they are stuck (for example when the regular player is sick etc) and sometimes I get to a venue where there is simply no place at my feet to place the MFC or any pedals for that matter, I sing too and have a mic stand in front of me always. I am looking at the TRIAD orbit stands to help solve that one. Drummers sometimes take up a lot of room on stage and leave us with the "where am I supposed to go?" question !!!! LOL
Anyway in such an instance just running the axe fx into FOH via XLR and selecting a preset and using the guitar's volume and nothing else during the entire gig is just the ticket. I am used to doing entire gigs this way with small amps and intend building a preset in the AXE FX 2 XL for such too.
So, I am going to go at this again now and try create such a preset now that my busy time at Christmas is nearly done.
I decided to ask you all for your advice, opinions and any ideas will be appreciated.
I better tell you I play mostly Old school rock & roll such as Chuck Berry right up to a lot of classic Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple and Zep etc but sometimes go heavier too but a good preset for these styles will do the job. That is why I went about making a preset based on the Supro.
Thanks all
Before I bought my Axe FX 2 XL I got rid of all my high wattage guitar amps because they were just too loud for most gigs and I am micing them up through front of house PA anyway. So, I moved to low wattage amps from 5 to 13 watt instead. I normally set the amp volume high and just use my little finger on the guitar's volume pot to roll from cleanish to full on overdrive. I guess you could say it is the old fashioned way of doing things but since I adopted this way of working it is very easy to change your sound 'on the fly' at gigs as required and it puts all the control in the fingers.
Some amps (even small ones) however can get 'hissy' when you do this as the are running at full tilt or damn near it.
Before Christmas I was working on a preset based on the Supro model and it's 1 x 15 speaker cab sim to try and achieve this but again I got a bit of hiss going on. This is quite normal as it happens with actual amps too and the Axe fx is emulating their behaviour anyway. But I would love to get this without any hiss (I know I can use a gate).
But my question is, what in your opinion is the best low wattage amp model in the Quantum 6.02 to try and do this with that will stay reasonably 'quiet' with least amount of hiss?
I am trying to avoid using any pedals or drive blocks at all. My reason for this is simple. I do a lot of 'pick up playing' with bands at short notice when they are stuck (for example when the regular player is sick etc) and sometimes I get to a venue where there is simply no place at my feet to place the MFC or any pedals for that matter, I sing too and have a mic stand in front of me always. I am looking at the TRIAD orbit stands to help solve that one. Drummers sometimes take up a lot of room on stage and leave us with the "where am I supposed to go?" question !!!! LOL
Anyway in such an instance just running the axe fx into FOH via XLR and selecting a preset and using the guitar's volume and nothing else during the entire gig is just the ticket. I am used to doing entire gigs this way with small amps and intend building a preset in the AXE FX 2 XL for such too.
So, I am going to go at this again now and try create such a preset now that my busy time at Christmas is nearly done.
I decided to ask you all for your advice, opinions and any ideas will be appreciated.
I better tell you I play mostly Old school rock & roll such as Chuck Berry right up to a lot of classic Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple and Zep etc but sometimes go heavier too but a good preset for these styles will do the job. That is why I went about making a preset based on the Supro.
Thanks all