HarrySound
Power User
....that exactly the problem. Doing something wrong for a very long time.It really shouldn't be that hard to get a decent high gain sound. If it takes you are a year to get a good sound either the machine is not good or you are doing something wrong. If it takes that long you would be better off with a real amp.
Your absolutely right it shouldn't take that long but when you have a box with the power of the Axe FX thrown in your lap you get option paralysis and end up in all manor of audio cue-de-sac's.
I've seen post after post of people not happy with the sound they have created. The stock IRs just don't do it for me for high gain personally, that took some time for me to come to that conclusion. People miss the fact that the RW IRs have no microphones baked in. It took a lot of time to understand what the Master Volume was doing to the sound. The endless conversation of where to place your high and low cuts in the amp block.You learn your preferences and one day they all come together and you immediately forget all the wasted time you spent trying to get there.
I myself only had experience with a Marshall 65R Valvestate and a Boss GT5 before moving on to a POD and then Guitar Rig.
I was always one of those guys that just played with a dirty sound and a clean sound and a wah and that was it. It was a big step up to the organic realism of the Axe FX.
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