Pretty sure I never said that. I have said that I prefer playing real amps more but that's a different thing.
/Ola
On your website it says that you think real amps do sound and feel better. That is what I'm going by. I didn't mean to put words in your mouth and I apologize if it seemed so.
Exactly that - Something I'd expect out of a Line 6 spider.
There is no reason that presets, which are basically "bundled knowledge," are not commercially sold as much as IRs are.
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I don't understand why the community is so against this - we're too prideful in our ability to achieve our own sounds, not realizing that many tones are beyond our comprehension as musicians.
Hope I'm not sounding like I'm singling you out for an argument, you just posed some great food for thought!
On your website it says that you think real amps do sound and feel better.
Since everyone is focusing on the tones, let me hit another key part of the equation. Light "box full o' amps" versus tube head and 4x12's. I've had two hernia surgeries and I'll take the unit over those any day.
it's more that I hear some people settle with tones out of the Axe FX that you could easily get out of a much lesser unit while the Axe FX is clearly capable of producing industry quality sounds.
As for the preset deal - check out the debate threads in the past when people discuss the topic of selling presets. Quite a lot of people find it ridiculous because they think it's the player's responsibility to learn the equipment they are using entirely.
Of course another factor you brought up is the mix you are working in as well as whether or not any post-processing was applied
We have a saying in Spain: "Poderoso caballero Don Dinero"
(a rough translation would be: "Sir Money [is a] powerful knight").
Is shocking to see how opinions change over time, I find some contradictory things about Ola and Fractal relationship, some food for thought:
Formerly he had an Ultra, in metalguiarist.org he had some Ultra presets under the name Fearedse, now this user is gone...in youtube you have many videos of Ola playing Fractal stuff very happy, in 2010 the Ultra, in 2011 he switched to Axe2, by the way he have some Axe2 presets in his web for download.
In the description of this 2012 video:
You can read "Thanks to Fractal Audio for letting me borrow an Axe Fx 2".
In 2013 his opinion was favorable:
I find that in the last 3 years the Axe2 had improved a lot, I wonder what make him change his mind
The amp mods the AxeFx produces are excellent and usable in all situations and they keep getting better! But modeling/synthesizing should not be the only purpose of the AxeFx, perhaps the main purpose but not the only one. Many guitarist still use and love old tube amps and will likely continue to do so for many years to come. The new growth area for FAS in my view is reactive loadbox processing combined with FAS tone matching techniques, cab/IR, mic/sim, effects. For those who have not tried gear like the Torpedo Studio it gives new life to old tube amps. I currently own one and will be buying more. I would like to buy FAS if it had a digital loadbox but one isn't currently available. All tube amps, especially vintage amps, sound different even between multiple production units of the same model. So wouldn't a digital loadbox inside an AxeFx provide even more modeling/synthesizing data for the AxeFx tone matching process? All that said I will be getting more AxeFx units with or with out a digital loadbox, but it would be nice to have the option.I have heard from people like Ola Englund that the Axe Fx isn't as good as real amps. But isn't tone really subjective? Personally I think that Periphery has some of the best sounding guitar tones that I've heard on an album. I haven't bad much experience with real tube amps but I really do like my Axe tones more than what I've heard from some expensive tube amps. I know people say digital is not as good but I don't exactly agree. Thoughts?
I have heard from people like Ola Englund that the Axe Fx isn't as good as real amps. But isn't tone really subjective? Personally I think that Periphery has some of the best sounding guitar tones that I've heard on an album. I haven't bad much experience with real tube amps but I really do like my Axe tones more than what I've heard from some expensive tube amps. I know people say digital is not as good but I don't exactly agree. Thoughts?
Your daily poem:
Ola plays all gear
Including Kemper and Line 6
And everything that he plays through
Sounds like Ola.
There is no reason that presets, which are basically "bundled knowledge," are not commercially sold as much as IRs are. IRs require more resources and technical skill to acquire faithfully so I am grateful many engineers are providing us with these, but presets are often more valuable and are NOT being provided commercially except for by a distinct few such as Fremen. I don't understand why the community is so against this - we're too prideful in our ability to achieve our own sounds, not realizing that many tones are beyond our comprehension as musicians.
To the OP - the Axe FX can do anything you want it to do, honestly. I'm not just blindly saying that - it sounds professional when you get the right sounds and IRs.