Please forgive me for just now writing. Thank you Vince for setting up the whole thing and I mean the WHOLE thing. I was out of the country and Vince made it all happen. Thanks to Tom King for coming down with the new Fractal atomic FR amps. they sounded great. I plugged into them and did the clinic. everything worked great. I would love to spend some time with them and tweak my presets a little but it all worked. I had also just updated to 7.18 that day and had just tweaked a few of my presets before leaving for the clinic. Thank you Daimen and Mat (Matman) for coming down too. It was a pleasure meeting you, and Mat I look forward to picking your brain and your Ultra's brain soon.
The Clinic was a lot of fun. I was in the middle of some heavy jet lag from getting in from Sweden a few days before that it really helped that just about everyone asked me questions. If I had just played I might have gone into that nowhere land zone and who knows what would have come out. It was a really good clinic for me because of the interaction with everyone.
Warrior: The thing on the floor with Blue lights is and was a Liquid foot Jr. ( The jr is great!!) I got mine right before leaving on tour and it was absolutely great. Using it was easy, It took me a little bit of time to get use to the way you program things but I think that I have it together now. Then again I am not using it to its full or even near full potential yet. Jeff from Liquid foot spent a really nice amount of time with me on the phone helping me get set up. He says that he does that with every one when the first get their unit. But it was absolutely great tech support. He has been great to work with every time I've needed help! I have a few weeks off from anything but becoming a better player and learning and programming the Jr and really getting into the 7.18 update unless there is another update (I think there where 5 updates that came out while I was on the road
) I am loving 7.18 though I did a local show on Saturday night and that was my first time hearing it through a PA and it was really nice. I can't really say what the difference was in detail just that it seemed just more, bigger, deeper? back to the jr. It travels great. I went through airports in 6 countries with my Ultra, the Liquid foot Jr and an EV-5 expression pedal in a 2 space rag bag. with pretty much no hassle. They did take a look at the Ultra some times and sometimes the Jr. But I got on the plane with it and my guitar in a gig bag.
A nice side note about the Ultra was the no hassle auto detecting power. Finland was the only country that had a power converter just for me. In Norway I think we borrowed one from Alice cooper's crew and the rest of the festivals and all of the club and pre festival jam-sit in- radio station performances where just got and adapter/then power cable for the Ultra and used a small 220 to 110 adapter for the Jr and my wireless. I don't know If would have been able to use one of the little power converters for the Ultra if I had to. But I didn't need one for it anyway.
Tom brought down a prototype of the Fractal MFC and it looks like we all think it's going to be...... Great! I got to step on the switches which feel really nice. It looks like is laid out in a great way. I love my Jr. and will be traveling with it for sure but I am still waiting for the MFC to come out also. Different situations call for different gear.
As for using recording patches and live patches. my lead and specialty patches are the same for recording and live as for rhythm patches, because I produce other artists and different kinds of music I have some amp and cabinet only patches that I use for recording. I think its about 20 presets all with different amps for recording. The settings all depend on what the song calls for.
Thanks again to Vince for putting this on and putting up the video too.
Larry
