Hey guys,
I'm stuck in a dilemma. For a long time I used the Axe FX with a power amp and guitar cab (selfmade oversized 212 with Celestion Century Vintage speakers) which seemed fine back then. Then I went to a FRFR setup (Matrix GT1000FX + Matrix FR212) which also seemed fine until I compared to my guitar cab side by side. Now I don't like either anymore.
With my cab I instantly miss the versatility that FRFR has. My means and my tone seem limited. Everything seems to sound kind of the same. The character of the cab is just so prominent.
With FRFR I can't get the same airiness and broadness in the mids that my cab has. My cab seems to fill the room more and seems more pleasant to my ears. It's mainly the mids I guess (not the high or low end) and I can't eq it in or out. I've tried dozens of IR's from multiple IR makers (ML, Fractal, Ownhammer, CabIR, ValhallIR, Celestion) with single mics, premade and custom mixes, far field, mid field, close mic'ed. It always feels that something is missing in my sound, not so much with clean tones but mid to high gain. I've used about every cab block parameter there is (like dephase, room, air etc), but nothing really helped.
Then I had the idea to use my FRFR setup as a neutral guitar cab and just low and especially high cut the hell out of it to make it sound more like a guitar cab. But no matter how much or little high cut I use there's either some very unpleasant high mid to treble frequencies going on or it just sounds muffled.
I'm looking for advice. Considering I can't get along with about every possible setup, the problem is probably myself and not my gear.
P.S.: Don't know where to post this. Please move the thread to the right place, if necessary.
I'm stuck in a dilemma. For a long time I used the Axe FX with a power amp and guitar cab (selfmade oversized 212 with Celestion Century Vintage speakers) which seemed fine back then. Then I went to a FRFR setup (Matrix GT1000FX + Matrix FR212) which also seemed fine until I compared to my guitar cab side by side. Now I don't like either anymore.
With my cab I instantly miss the versatility that FRFR has. My means and my tone seem limited. Everything seems to sound kind of the same. The character of the cab is just so prominent.
With FRFR I can't get the same airiness and broadness in the mids that my cab has. My cab seems to fill the room more and seems more pleasant to my ears. It's mainly the mids I guess (not the high or low end) and I can't eq it in or out. I've tried dozens of IR's from multiple IR makers (ML, Fractal, Ownhammer, CabIR, ValhallIR, Celestion) with single mics, premade and custom mixes, far field, mid field, close mic'ed. It always feels that something is missing in my sound, not so much with clean tones but mid to high gain. I've used about every cab block parameter there is (like dephase, room, air etc), but nothing really helped.
Then I had the idea to use my FRFR setup as a neutral guitar cab and just low and especially high cut the hell out of it to make it sound more like a guitar cab. But no matter how much or little high cut I use there's either some very unpleasant high mid to treble frequencies going on or it just sounds muffled.
I'm looking for advice. Considering I can't get along with about every possible setup, the problem is probably myself and not my gear.
P.S.: Don't know where to post this. Please move the thread to the right place, if necessary.