funny_polymath
Fractal Fanatic
I've been gone from here along while. Lotta personal stuff. I haven't even recorded any music for over a year.
So, yesterday, I started working with my nephew, who lives in Korea, shipping files back and forth between our respective DAWs (Samplitude for me, Reason for him). Ain't this an incredible time to be alive, to be able to do that, and with pretty much zero effort?
I tracked a bunch of guitar tracks using some of my patches, and several presets as well, notably Ambient Guitar, Das Metal, and Uber Goober.
I had FORGOTTEN how friggin good the Axe-II sounds! (and I am on embarrassingly old FW).
Cliff, this thing is amazing. I'm amazed all over again.
I am using stock cabs, nothing fancy, and, I'm sorry - but this sh$t sounds REALLY REAL! No re-amping, no fancy third party stuff, just the Axe-II (and my trusty PCM-70 in the fx loop for some of my signature patches).
I'd worked with musician/producer Tomas Doncker on my last album, and never had the heart to tell him how crappy I thought his guitar tones were. There we were in the studio, he playing a fancy, very expensive boutique amp (sometimes two), me plugged straight into a D/I (what an argument with the engineer, who insisted on mic'ing my FRFR 'cab' for the first few sessions). He was playing through some Zoom multi-effects unit that just dweezed his sound up - all 'digi' sounding, and there I was, coming out of the lowly (in his not-so-humble-opinion) 'modeler' - and I sounded way more real. You can actually hear it on my CD - compare the first solo, his, and the second solo, mine:
So... just wanted to say THANKS. Amazed all over again. Will upgrade Real Soon Now to the new Firmware, LOL.
Keep up the good work!
So, yesterday, I started working with my nephew, who lives in Korea, shipping files back and forth between our respective DAWs (Samplitude for me, Reason for him). Ain't this an incredible time to be alive, to be able to do that, and with pretty much zero effort?
I tracked a bunch of guitar tracks using some of my patches, and several presets as well, notably Ambient Guitar, Das Metal, and Uber Goober.
I had FORGOTTEN how friggin good the Axe-II sounds! (and I am on embarrassingly old FW).
Cliff, this thing is amazing. I'm amazed all over again.
I am using stock cabs, nothing fancy, and, I'm sorry - but this sh$t sounds REALLY REAL! No re-amping, no fancy third party stuff, just the Axe-II (and my trusty PCM-70 in the fx loop for some of my signature patches).
I'd worked with musician/producer Tomas Doncker on my last album, and never had the heart to tell him how crappy I thought his guitar tones were. There we were in the studio, he playing a fancy, very expensive boutique amp (sometimes two), me plugged straight into a D/I (what an argument with the engineer, who insisted on mic'ing my FRFR 'cab' for the first few sessions). He was playing through some Zoom multi-effects unit that just dweezed his sound up - all 'digi' sounding, and there I was, coming out of the lowly (in his not-so-humble-opinion) 'modeler' - and I sounded way more real. You can actually hear it on my CD - compare the first solo, his, and the second solo, mine:
So... just wanted to say THANKS. Amazed all over again. Will upgrade Real Soon Now to the new Firmware, LOL.
Keep up the good work!
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