So last night I played a gig at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park NJ with local artist Christine Martucci. For those of you who are not familiar, The Pony is a kinda legendary club here in NJ where Springsteen got his start and all of the Jersey acts - Bon Jovi, Skid Row, Southside Johnny etc have played/gotten their start there. The setlist consisted of everything from Tucci's originals (country/rock type stuff - chicken pickin' to heavier riff based tunes) to some Tina Turner (What You Get Is What You See, Nutbush City Limits, River Deep, Mountain High) to U2 (All I Want Is You/Streets) to Janice (Piece Of My Heart). So suffice it to say, it was a pretty diverse night style - wise. The II is incredible for ANY tone I need for ANY tune ANYtime.
The preset I used was based off of one I used with my cover band - a USA Clean and IIC+ with varying degrees of IIC+ gain levels. I run out 1 with the stock OH recto cab sim (last in the chain) direct to FOH and out 2 (placed right before the cab sim) to my 2:90 (with my TriAxis as a backup until I can get a spare II) into my recto cab. The stage was outdoors and my rig was located about 20-25 feet back from stage front with the mics so there was really no bleed from my rig. Monitors and FOH was ALL Fractal. During sound check, I just had my backline cranked up a bit and had nothing in my monitor but the rest of the band had it their mix. After check and before we hit the stage, I asked for a bit of my guitar in my monitor. Well, he put it there - cranked!!!
During the show, I moved back and forth from the front of the stage back toward my backline. The tone coming from the monitor mix was CRUSHING!!! I believe the monitors were JBLs and they/the mix flat out KILLED my 2:90 and cab.
The moral of the story is that my back is screaming at me to sell the rest of my heavy ass gear and buy a spare II and good powered monitor cause it sounds better than my power amp and 4x12 cab anyway.
After our performance, the soundguys and various members of the band going on after us kept telling me how awesome my guitar tone was. I just kept saying for the rest of the night "It's all the Fractal..."
The preset I used was based off of one I used with my cover band - a USA Clean and IIC+ with varying degrees of IIC+ gain levels. I run out 1 with the stock OH recto cab sim (last in the chain) direct to FOH and out 2 (placed right before the cab sim) to my 2:90 (with my TriAxis as a backup until I can get a spare II) into my recto cab. The stage was outdoors and my rig was located about 20-25 feet back from stage front with the mics so there was really no bleed from my rig. Monitors and FOH was ALL Fractal. During sound check, I just had my backline cranked up a bit and had nothing in my monitor but the rest of the band had it their mix. After check and before we hit the stage, I asked for a bit of my guitar in my monitor. Well, he put it there - cranked!!!
During the show, I moved back and forth from the front of the stage back toward my backline. The tone coming from the monitor mix was CRUSHING!!! I believe the monitors were JBLs and they/the mix flat out KILLED my 2:90 and cab.
The moral of the story is that my back is screaming at me to sell the rest of my heavy ass gear and buy a spare II and good powered monitor cause it sounds better than my power amp and 4x12 cab anyway.
After our performance, the soundguys and various members of the band going on after us kept telling me how awesome my guitar tone was. I just kept saying for the rest of the night "It's all the Fractal..."
