Fractal Audio MUST be making some kind of inroads to the amp community for that guy to post what he did.
Maybe he feels "threatened" somehow?
Though I cannot imagine why.....the axe fx is just modeling the tones of great amps...what is so threatening about that?
Yeah, I have to agree. When a lifestyle (or part of) is percieved to be under threat, there's an inevitable backlash which is unjustifiable. After a period of time, the backlash subsides and people settle back down, incorporating the change and it becomes the status quo until another thing emerges.
It's also why I don't frequent any other gear or music forum. IMHO, their reputations absolutely suck with unreviewed advice that can be misleading, false, or even downright harmful to a new guitar player, and the construction of and questionable modding on these fora (Ultimate Guitar, Harmony Central, TGP, notably) are detrimental to both the guitar players status as a musician in the wider music field and also to the development of new players and their development of informed opinions. The existence of Ultimate Guitar and the like, with a plethora of plainly shite 'tabs' that don't have any form of musical rhythmic notation hold back knowledge of rhythm, even though composers (Bach, for example) used tab as a means of composition (and it essentially predates staff notation) quite successfully. Also, copying and pasting a news article without checking sources doesn't make a person a news journalist.
Ok, rant over. Sorry about that! I'm off to get a valium.
On the plus side, there are people like Marty Schwarz, Justin Sandercoe, and Andrew Wasson who are using the net to do wonderful things regarding guitar instruction and teaching.
