I've been playing with it all day today, but from what I am hearing so far, I'll be honest and say I am not really impressed.
I want to be up front and say that I do not have a pair of studio monitors. I so far have monitored the axe two ways. One with headphones, and one through my Roland Cube 30x going from Output 1 left of the axe fx into the Aux Input of the Cube. This bypasses all the modeling and tone stack of the cube and goes straight to the speaker.
I set output mode to stereo when using headphones and Copy L To R when using the cube.
I am using an american series Telecaster.
I've gone through most of the presets, and have messed around in Axe Edit, creating things from scratch. Out of the two monitoring methods, I prefer going into the cube because it sounds more amp like, and is a bigger fatter tone obviously. The headphones sound sterile and hi fi, but some of the stereo effect presets sound pretty cool through headphones.
I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. I have the input level in the I/O menu at a decent level, and not clipping. I do notice that it doesn't take much to get pretty loud through both head phones and the cube. I just have to turn up the output 1 knob just a tiny bit, and it starts to get loud.
I don't know if It is just me, but it seems like the presets and the Axe in general favors guitars with higher output/humbucking pickups. I guess the pickups in my tele are pretty low output, and it shows for example when I pull up a EVH brown sound preset or the Eruption preset. For me, the preset is pretty clean, but I imagine if I plugged in a Les Paul or similar, it would be high gain.
Right now, nothing I am hearing is earth shattering. I think I was expecting god like tones from all of the hype. I would go so far as to say that I prefer plugging directly into the roland cube.
One of the first things I did was recreate Tyler Grund's SRV patch, and download his Little Wing patch, as this is what inspired me to get an Axe Fx in the first place. I am bummed out because from my end, it sounds nothing like what I hear from his videos. Especially the Little Wing patch. Could be a combo of different things. Different monitoring setup, different guitars (although it shouldn't be that different, tele vs strat), or it simply reaffirms that its 95% the player and the touch.
My plan was to get a good pair of monitors but I am now hesitant to spend any more money since I don't know if It will really drastically improve what I am hearing.
I fully expect people to criticize and jump all over me, which is fine. I am hoping to get insight from others to see what perhaps I may be doing wrong, or if perhaps the Axe Fx just isn't for me?
I want to be up front and say that I do not have a pair of studio monitors. I so far have monitored the axe two ways. One with headphones, and one through my Roland Cube 30x going from Output 1 left of the axe fx into the Aux Input of the Cube. This bypasses all the modeling and tone stack of the cube and goes straight to the speaker.
I set output mode to stereo when using headphones and Copy L To R when using the cube.
I am using an american series Telecaster.
I've gone through most of the presets, and have messed around in Axe Edit, creating things from scratch. Out of the two monitoring methods, I prefer going into the cube because it sounds more amp like, and is a bigger fatter tone obviously. The headphones sound sterile and hi fi, but some of the stereo effect presets sound pretty cool through headphones.
I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. I have the input level in the I/O menu at a decent level, and not clipping. I do notice that it doesn't take much to get pretty loud through both head phones and the cube. I just have to turn up the output 1 knob just a tiny bit, and it starts to get loud.
I don't know if It is just me, but it seems like the presets and the Axe in general favors guitars with higher output/humbucking pickups. I guess the pickups in my tele are pretty low output, and it shows for example when I pull up a EVH brown sound preset or the Eruption preset. For me, the preset is pretty clean, but I imagine if I plugged in a Les Paul or similar, it would be high gain.
Right now, nothing I am hearing is earth shattering. I think I was expecting god like tones from all of the hype. I would go so far as to say that I prefer plugging directly into the roland cube.
One of the first things I did was recreate Tyler Grund's SRV patch, and download his Little Wing patch, as this is what inspired me to get an Axe Fx in the first place. I am bummed out because from my end, it sounds nothing like what I hear from his videos. Especially the Little Wing patch. Could be a combo of different things. Different monitoring setup, different guitars (although it shouldn't be that different, tele vs strat), or it simply reaffirms that its 95% the player and the touch.
My plan was to get a good pair of monitors but I am now hesitant to spend any more money since I don't know if It will really drastically improve what I am hearing.
I fully expect people to criticize and jump all over me, which is fine. I am hoping to get insight from others to see what perhaps I may be doing wrong, or if perhaps the Axe Fx just isn't for me?