mistermikev
Experienced
I'm just going to put my unedited thoughts here as I'd like to check back with it as I get more familiar with the unit.
well first off this thing is noisy! jk. I think with the headroom/fidelity of this unit it makes any noise you have stand out like a soar thumb. I recently blew up my power supply in my pc and and the new wires don't have the ferrite cores around them... so I may have added a bit of noise there too. have some work to do to clean that up a bit.
I am absolutely stunned by this thing. it is so clean i feel naked and intimidated playing it. Not that I'm worthy of my other gear but dang... I am immediately struck with the feeling that I am no where near good enough to play this thing. that thought is compounded by the fidelity of the unit... hearing every little thing x10!
the fx are nothing short of impressive.
I'm surprised by how good some of the synth-type patches are. the tracking is the best I've experienced by a long shot. I kind of thought that area would be an after-thought on this device as the focus is models. It's not. I can def see diving into that area and combining with fx and losing months.
was blown away to see the availability of the 1s1588 diode as an clipping option(not to mention the option to change clipping!)... wasn't sure anyone else used those but it's a fav of mine for clipping in od pedals I've built so... noice. depth of control on this thing is like nothing I've ever played with.
the treble booster... not just a fanboy here I'll call it like I see it - it's good but not exactly what I was expecting. I've never played an original so keep that in mind to vet my observations. I've built several rangemasters/fuzz-face-variants and one of the things I love about germanium transistors is the attack on the very front of the note. Seems like this model may have had a rather subdued transistor, or perhaps I'm just used to playing with rangemaster clones that have higher gain trannies... but it doesn't quite capture that. at least not right out the gate. perhaps w some tweaking.
at first I was playing with my jem... and admittedly that is a pretty bright guitar. had a hard time doing much other than clean or super heavy with that guitar. plugged in a strat and WHOA. many of the stock presets sound "next level". usually factory presets aren't that great but found many that I loved as is. med gain is my mainstay so: "yes, this will do nicely"
plugged in a lp w emg (don't hate) just to see what overloading the front end would sound like... impressive. handles it like a champ. def found some 'brutal' patches that will work well as is.
coming from a l6 device one thing I'm a little unsure of is the fact that there isn't a page where I can just stay on the list of presets and use my keyboard to just scroll thru them. I'm only really interested in access via axe edit and you have to click... nav... click - and once you do; the focus goes elsewhere. I realize you can't cater to every whim so... just a mild observation here. perhaps I'll get used to it. perhaps I just haven't found the spot yet.
haven't said anything about the models... well what is to be said. I have helix native, came from a pod pro x: just no comparison. not even in the same zip code. I was expecting this and axe delivered.
so far only played for about 4hrs last night... lots to learn and explore.
well first off this thing is noisy! jk. I think with the headroom/fidelity of this unit it makes any noise you have stand out like a soar thumb. I recently blew up my power supply in my pc and and the new wires don't have the ferrite cores around them... so I may have added a bit of noise there too. have some work to do to clean that up a bit.
I am absolutely stunned by this thing. it is so clean i feel naked and intimidated playing it. Not that I'm worthy of my other gear but dang... I am immediately struck with the feeling that I am no where near good enough to play this thing. that thought is compounded by the fidelity of the unit... hearing every little thing x10!
the fx are nothing short of impressive.
I'm surprised by how good some of the synth-type patches are. the tracking is the best I've experienced by a long shot. I kind of thought that area would be an after-thought on this device as the focus is models. It's not. I can def see diving into that area and combining with fx and losing months.
was blown away to see the availability of the 1s1588 diode as an clipping option(not to mention the option to change clipping!)... wasn't sure anyone else used those but it's a fav of mine for clipping in od pedals I've built so... noice. depth of control on this thing is like nothing I've ever played with.
the treble booster... not just a fanboy here I'll call it like I see it - it's good but not exactly what I was expecting. I've never played an original so keep that in mind to vet my observations. I've built several rangemasters/fuzz-face-variants and one of the things I love about germanium transistors is the attack on the very front of the note. Seems like this model may have had a rather subdued transistor, or perhaps I'm just used to playing with rangemaster clones that have higher gain trannies... but it doesn't quite capture that. at least not right out the gate. perhaps w some tweaking.
at first I was playing with my jem... and admittedly that is a pretty bright guitar. had a hard time doing much other than clean or super heavy with that guitar. plugged in a strat and WHOA. many of the stock presets sound "next level". usually factory presets aren't that great but found many that I loved as is. med gain is my mainstay so: "yes, this will do nicely"
plugged in a lp w emg (don't hate) just to see what overloading the front end would sound like... impressive. handles it like a champ. def found some 'brutal' patches that will work well as is.
coming from a l6 device one thing I'm a little unsure of is the fact that there isn't a page where I can just stay on the list of presets and use my keyboard to just scroll thru them. I'm only really interested in access via axe edit and you have to click... nav... click - and once you do; the focus goes elsewhere. I realize you can't cater to every whim so... just a mild observation here. perhaps I'll get used to it. perhaps I just haven't found the spot yet.
haven't said anything about the models... well what is to be said. I have helix native, came from a pod pro x: just no comparison. not even in the same zip code. I was expecting this and axe delivered.
so far only played for about 4hrs last night... lots to learn and explore.
