clarky
Axe-Master
great bang for buck ain't they...Yeah, those are good monitors. I had the HS8's and they were great...
great bang for buck ain't they...Yeah, those are good monitors. I had the HS8's and they were great...
it took me a while to dial my ears into the Axe.. and like yourself, a few weeks in I was wondering if I'd made a mistake..
the penny dropped for me when I realised just how crucial matching the cab IR's to the amps was in my studio [with Yamaha HS7 monitors]..
in an FRFR setting [either studio <with near field monitors> or live <with FRFR monitors>] you'll always get the "mic'd cab" tone and feel which is not the same as being stood next to the real thing.. it's more like playing in the control room with your amp in a studio or booth..
but that's not a bad thing.. it's just a different thing…
live, I use a Matrix power amp [which is very powerful and very transparent] and a pair of Marshall 4x12 cabs..
and that delivers the whole pants flapping experience.. which when on stage I adore..
I know that the Axe is not for everyone..
a few pals of mine have switched between the Axe, other modellers, real amps, back to the Axe and then back to a variety of real amps and cabs several times over.. some of them ended up going back to real amps, found what they were looking for and stayed there…
in my case I stuck with it, found my sweet spots with the Axe both in the studio and live.. and now cannot imagine life without it..
horses for courses as they say…
anyways… whatever you choose to do..
best of luck and I hope you find your tone utopia..
ok. well, the axe isn't for you. it works for many, many others, but if it's not for you then that's ok.I plugged in direct to the roland cube, and got a much better tone that way than through the axe.
if you're cube sounds better then something isn't right.....modeling/amp/frfr whatever. Cubes are pretty terrible, even for a solid state practice amp. Only way it's sounding better than the Axe is something being jacked up.
With the Cube I am able to get very close to the following tone. It sounds much better in person than it does in the video. I am unable to get anything like this on the Axe, with the same feel. (person in the video is not me by the way. Just an example of what I am able to get.)
With the Cube I am able to get very close to the following tone. It sounds much better in person than it does in the video. I am unable to get anything like this on the Axe, with the same feel. (person in the video is not me by the way. Just an example of what I am able to get.)
what amp model have you tried?
that tone doesn't sound really good to me. i can hear the COSM modeling high end, typical of Boss products.
With the Cube I am able to get very close to the following tone. It sounds much better in person than it does in the video. I am unable to get anything like this on the Axe, with the same feel. (person in the video is not me by the way. Just an example of what I am able to get.)
welp. The studio monitors helped a little but I'm still not satisfied. Ultimately I feel like this modeling, FRFR stuff isn't for me. I plugged in direct to the roland cube, and got a much better tone that way than through the axe. I think it is the amp in the room feel that I like. With the Axe and the monitors, It feels like the sound isn't really there if that makes sense. And I guess that's correct since it is simulating a mixed amp in another room.
I am thinking that I will return the Axe. $2000+ is a lot of money and for me and what I like to hear it's not justified. kind of sucks because I will be losing money on all of this. The monitors have a 15% restocking fee. I bought some XLR cables that cannot be returned, and I will lose out on shipping with the Axe, and perhaps the rack case.
It will be an expensive lessen for me to not believe the hype, listen to your heart when it comes to how you typically use gear, and if you have something that already sounds good, don't try to fix it.
Here is a quick 30 second noodle I did with the 1959SLP Treble amp. I think I have some ideal tone, or a misrepresentation of how the Axe should be sounding, and I am disappointed that its not sounding that way. Thing is that I don't really know what I am looking for.
I got the Axe because I was coming out of a hiatus with the guitar and wanted something to inspire me to practice seriously again. I wanted to be able to recreate any tone I liked from a recording. I wanted something that was easy to record with, and allowed me to also jam along to backing tracks with good tone.