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So, I’m going to try to keep this short and to the point, but I’m sure that won’t happen.
I absolutely love my Axe Fx Standard, and also hate it with a passion. With that said, it’s been a main part of my rig since I got it, and I honestly don’t see it going away anytime soon.
My mainstay amp is a Marshall Jubilee 2550. For those of you keeping score, I run Presence 0, Bass 10, Mid 6, High 2.5, Output Master 5, Lead Master 5, Input Gain 3, no Rhythm clip and running at 50 watts. It’s set darker than most would run it because I go through a Marshal Jubilee 2x12. I don’t recall if it’s G12-70’s or G12-75’s. My guitar is a 70’s something Tele Custom. Someone replaced the neck pickup with a Seymour Duncan, and I don’t know what it is. The bridge pickup is a Dimarzio Chopper I wired parallel. I usually run both pickups for most of my sounds.
My alternate setup is a rather large pedal board into a Fender Blues Deville, but that is another story.
I have used the Axe Fx as FX only before both amps, FRFR into a QSC K10, straight to a computer or mixer with various headphones, near field monitors, through an ART SLA-1 with a 4x12 or a 2x12, you name it. I settled on a 4-cable method with the Jubilee. I must add that my regular usage at this point is playing live with a cover band, mostly classic and new rock. What I like most about the Jubilee vs most Marshalls are the tone controls. The Bass control adds richness without getting muddy, and the highs are smoother, provided that you keep the presence low. I could never accomplish the same thing with my Dual Super Lead, nor the JCM800.
I finally had the time and patience to sit down with the Axe Fx since the release of 10.03. What I have found is that it is a big improvement for the sound I am going for, and I’m finally able to get close. With most Marshal sims, I have a big struggle with getting this warm and big bottom while keeping the definition. It’s something I’ve never fought with on the Jubilee. Adding the Bright boost on the sim added a characteristic I really needed, but it was way too harsh and unnatural. The Marsha BE sim got me closer when 10 first came out, but it wasn’t until the high frequency change in 10.03 that I felt I had a chance.
So what you have here is a recording of 2 takes back to back. The first is the 4-cable method with the Jubilee. The only thing the Axe Fx is really doing in this clip is adding a tinge of verb and delay. Nothing else. I’m using a Hughes and Kettner Red Box Mark II directly into a Zoom H4N. The second half of the clip is just the Axe Fx running straight into the Zoom H4N. If all goes well, I will include the patches.
What I ended up doing was turning the Bright switch on, keeping the presence off (at noon) and then bringing the High Cut way down. I’m not sure I have this balance right just yet. No matter how I adjusted the Low Cut in combination with the Bass control, the bottom end was always missing. So I added a PEQ and brought up 100-ish. If you look at the patch, you’ll notice I have it set up to send the FX Loop to the power amp/2x12 at Output 2 for the stage, and Output 1 is for FOH. I put a separate PEQ on each to adjust as needed. I ended up changing the EQ for output 1 quite a bit, but never really settling on anything. As is usually the case, I’m never happy with the sound coming out of both Output 1 and Output 2. It’s usually one or the other.
The cab sims are Redwirez. It’s a Scott Peterson recipe, I believe. I got most of my tips from him and Yek. The way the verb and delay are set up is a variation from one of them as well, although I scaled it way back. I’m still trying to find it’s happy place.
The Jube_4Cable patch is the one set up to use the pre-amp and power amp of the Jubilee. The Jubilee_Wannabe is for the ART SLA-1 with 2x12 cab.
Points of interest: I use a Yamaha MFC10 foot controller. The expression pedal on the board is assigned to the wah, plus it’s set to kick in additional volume and delay. I have a second pedal attached to the MFC10 for volume. I changed the curve on the volume so that it his the lower gain quicker.
So here it is, my first official post, with first official audio clip and patches to boot. I’ll take any and all critcism.
http://soundcloud.com/fromas/jubilee-test-axe-fx
I absolutely love my Axe Fx Standard, and also hate it with a passion. With that said, it’s been a main part of my rig since I got it, and I honestly don’t see it going away anytime soon.
My mainstay amp is a Marshall Jubilee 2550. For those of you keeping score, I run Presence 0, Bass 10, Mid 6, High 2.5, Output Master 5, Lead Master 5, Input Gain 3, no Rhythm clip and running at 50 watts. It’s set darker than most would run it because I go through a Marshal Jubilee 2x12. I don’t recall if it’s G12-70’s or G12-75’s. My guitar is a 70’s something Tele Custom. Someone replaced the neck pickup with a Seymour Duncan, and I don’t know what it is. The bridge pickup is a Dimarzio Chopper I wired parallel. I usually run both pickups for most of my sounds.
My alternate setup is a rather large pedal board into a Fender Blues Deville, but that is another story.
I have used the Axe Fx as FX only before both amps, FRFR into a QSC K10, straight to a computer or mixer with various headphones, near field monitors, through an ART SLA-1 with a 4x12 or a 2x12, you name it. I settled on a 4-cable method with the Jubilee. I must add that my regular usage at this point is playing live with a cover band, mostly classic and new rock. What I like most about the Jubilee vs most Marshalls are the tone controls. The Bass control adds richness without getting muddy, and the highs are smoother, provided that you keep the presence low. I could never accomplish the same thing with my Dual Super Lead, nor the JCM800.
I finally had the time and patience to sit down with the Axe Fx since the release of 10.03. What I have found is that it is a big improvement for the sound I am going for, and I’m finally able to get close. With most Marshal sims, I have a big struggle with getting this warm and big bottom while keeping the definition. It’s something I’ve never fought with on the Jubilee. Adding the Bright boost on the sim added a characteristic I really needed, but it was way too harsh and unnatural. The Marsha BE sim got me closer when 10 first came out, but it wasn’t until the high frequency change in 10.03 that I felt I had a chance.
So what you have here is a recording of 2 takes back to back. The first is the 4-cable method with the Jubilee. The only thing the Axe Fx is really doing in this clip is adding a tinge of verb and delay. Nothing else. I’m using a Hughes and Kettner Red Box Mark II directly into a Zoom H4N. The second half of the clip is just the Axe Fx running straight into the Zoom H4N. If all goes well, I will include the patches.
What I ended up doing was turning the Bright switch on, keeping the presence off (at noon) and then bringing the High Cut way down. I’m not sure I have this balance right just yet. No matter how I adjusted the Low Cut in combination with the Bass control, the bottom end was always missing. So I added a PEQ and brought up 100-ish. If you look at the patch, you’ll notice I have it set up to send the FX Loop to the power amp/2x12 at Output 2 for the stage, and Output 1 is for FOH. I put a separate PEQ on each to adjust as needed. I ended up changing the EQ for output 1 quite a bit, but never really settling on anything. As is usually the case, I’m never happy with the sound coming out of both Output 1 and Output 2. It’s usually one or the other.
The cab sims are Redwirez. It’s a Scott Peterson recipe, I believe. I got most of my tips from him and Yek. The way the verb and delay are set up is a variation from one of them as well, although I scaled it way back. I’m still trying to find it’s happy place.
The Jube_4Cable patch is the one set up to use the pre-amp and power amp of the Jubilee. The Jubilee_Wannabe is for the ART SLA-1 with 2x12 cab.
Points of interest: I use a Yamaha MFC10 foot controller. The expression pedal on the board is assigned to the wah, plus it’s set to kick in additional volume and delay. I have a second pedal attached to the MFC10 for volume. I changed the curve on the volume so that it his the lower gain quicker.
So here it is, my first official post, with first official audio clip and patches to boot. I’ll take any and all critcism.
http://soundcloud.com/fromas/jubilee-test-axe-fx
Seriously. I really like the OwnHammer, but not being able to adjust them (I bought the syx file versions from them) drove my control freak personality insane. The OwnHammer's have a very distinctly tight lower end with almost zero proximity effect in most of them; though they are harder in the upper mids than I generally prefer. So I took my working mix (which was 'ref mix4') and worked at it. This current mix addresses almost every need/want/desire I've wanted from that particular specific cab. The formula changes per each cab and gets further murky when you start mixing speakers, but I'm a long way down the road working with this sort of construct and VERY happy at this juncture. This current version holds well at lower volumes and just explodes (nicely) at stage volumes. 
