My ultra will be here tomorrow!!!
What's funny is, I have never heard of Fractal Audio or the Axe-FX until last Friday. I spent the two weeks prior to that screwing around with my tube amp "test bed" chassis, throwing every hi-gain preamp configuration I could find a schematic for in there, looking for that "killer" sound. Each preamp was always, "that's cool, but it doesn't react to picking nuances", or "boy that's a lot of gain, but it has no character", etc. Some did sound pretty good, but the eternal problem was that they had to be turned up loud to sound good; every single one of them was poo-poo at low volumes.
But anyway, Friday night I was googling something, I don't remember,
and one of the hits took me to a BB with a thread about "pod vs (?) for home recording", and one of the replies was like, "An Axe-FX is what you want. There is no comparison to anything else." So, of course, I had to google Axe-FX to find out what it was. Found the Fractal site, and went, "Wow, that sounds cool!". Found the owner's manual, and as I was reading it, my jaw started dropping at a fast rate. My jaw hit the floor when I read about "amp geek" parameters.
I was literally in shock. It was 3AM, forced myself to go to bed, but couldn't sleep.
Saturday, the entire day, was spent in front of the computer gathering information about this incredible Axe-FX device. I kept fighting it, you know, I don't really need one. After all, I have been seemingly content with my JMP-1, even if it does have only one sound.
Sunday, I lost the fight. I ordered one. Then, with disgust, I put my tube chassis and my box of 10 million resistors away in the garage, hoping that the next person that sees that stuff will be an museum curator. I'm done.
Happy happy joy joy :lol:
What's funny is, I have never heard of Fractal Audio or the Axe-FX until last Friday. I spent the two weeks prior to that screwing around with my tube amp "test bed" chassis, throwing every hi-gain preamp configuration I could find a schematic for in there, looking for that "killer" sound. Each preamp was always, "that's cool, but it doesn't react to picking nuances", or "boy that's a lot of gain, but it has no character", etc. Some did sound pretty good, but the eternal problem was that they had to be turned up loud to sound good; every single one of them was poo-poo at low volumes.
But anyway, Friday night I was googling something, I don't remember,
and one of the hits took me to a BB with a thread about "pod vs (?) for home recording", and one of the replies was like, "An Axe-FX is what you want. There is no comparison to anything else." So, of course, I had to google Axe-FX to find out what it was. Found the Fractal site, and went, "Wow, that sounds cool!". Found the owner's manual, and as I was reading it, my jaw started dropping at a fast rate. My jaw hit the floor when I read about "amp geek" parameters.
I was literally in shock. It was 3AM, forced myself to go to bed, but couldn't sleep.
Saturday, the entire day, was spent in front of the computer gathering information about this incredible Axe-FX device. I kept fighting it, you know, I don't really need one. After all, I have been seemingly content with my JMP-1, even if it does have only one sound.
Sunday, I lost the fight. I ordered one. Then, with disgust, I put my tube chassis and my box of 10 million resistors away in the garage, hoping that the next person that sees that stuff will be an museum curator. I'm done.
Happy happy joy joy :lol:
