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Hello everybody, my name is Kenneth and I'm new to this forum. I've been lurking around for a while
convincing myself to buy an axe fx2 which I will do within a couple of weeks or so.
I'm a hobby guitarplayer and of course a gearhead, that has been playing more or less for 30 years, but really never payed
much attention to it until a couple of years ago. So I've gotten more into playing and practising
a little more serious so to speak.
Doing some composing in periods but only for "home use" and I do not play in a band but have all the tools
to create music by myself for fun.
I've gotten the axe fx2 bugg in me big time, so I will order it and pack up my pedalboards and that stuff
for a rainy day, or maybe a year or couple of years down the road I will eventually sell them.
My plan is to use axefx2 and my Behringer FCB1010 (uno chip) to change patches, and use as a volume pedal.
I do live in a flat so keeping down the volume is a must. Most of the time I just play to songs at low volume
from mp3 tracks or some progression from youtube etc. So I need it to sound good at low volume which I am
confident axe fx2 will do, and much more.
My problem is the following:
In my living room, I've got a 5.1 sound system for my DVD, 2 Large 200W Jamo hifi speakers hooked up to my cd player
and tuner. I've got 2 Old Yamaha studio / keyboard speakers (not shielded) hooked to my rack with synths and guitar effects. On my computer
I've got a normal 2.1 sub system with an additional pair of 80w Hifi speakers from Technics.
It's ridicilous really summing it all up, hahaha but it has accumulated over the years.
So I am trying to get rid of some speakers and stuff obvioulsy, being that much of my speakers are old and not the best quality anyway.
Buying such an awesome effect as axe fx 2 I want to have a resonably good speaker set hooked up to it. Having to throw in my wallet an arm and a leg to afford the axe fx2 I cannot afford to go for the more high end speakers. I was thinking about krk5 or krk8 or something like that, but I typically don't mix stuff and doing advanced sound editing stuff. But simply playing mp3 and on top of that destroying it with meaningless noodeling using my guitar.
Seems like everybody recomend people to go for studio speakers, but is that good for listening to music as well
I mean from records and concert movies etc.?
I got myself a fasttrack pro from M-Audio as a soundcard a year ago, and that thing has only created trouble, and the company
doesn't support their products. Old inadequate drivers, unsolved problems that can be traced back 3-4 years.
I will never buy or recomend anything that has the name M-Audio on it. When the card worked it sounded good, but having the
drivers crash and fail on a weekly basis is unacceptable and no respose on support request, that being said I'm a network
technician and have over 20 years computer experience so I am no stranger to drivers, computers, and fail searching.
So I will by another one, probably an Alesis IO4 to use as a midi interface and a soundcard on my workstation.
To shorten it down:
need it to sound good at very low volumes,
need a new soundcard for midi stuff,
can I use a hifi stereo reciever as output?
hifi speakers?
if studio monitors, will the sound good overall?
listening to music 90% of the time, often headphones when playing guitar
Sorry about the long posting, but I wanted to explain who I am and what my current setup is
like. And I figured maybe get to know some of you ladies and gentlemens that are using
and supporting this incredible product. I can hardly wait til I get my hands on mine.
Well thank you reading this, and I am grateful for any kind of tip
on what to buy or avoid etc ..
you all have a good one
//Kenneth
Hello everybody, my name is Kenneth and I'm new to this forum. I've been lurking around for a while
convincing myself to buy an axe fx2 which I will do within a couple of weeks or so.
I'm a hobby guitarplayer and of course a gearhead, that has been playing more or less for 30 years, but really never payed
much attention to it until a couple of years ago. So I've gotten more into playing and practising
a little more serious so to speak.
Doing some composing in periods but only for "home use" and I do not play in a band but have all the tools
to create music by myself for fun.
I've gotten the axe fx2 bugg in me big time, so I will order it and pack up my pedalboards and that stuff
for a rainy day, or maybe a year or couple of years down the road I will eventually sell them.
My plan is to use axefx2 and my Behringer FCB1010 (uno chip) to change patches, and use as a volume pedal.
I do live in a flat so keeping down the volume is a must. Most of the time I just play to songs at low volume
from mp3 tracks or some progression from youtube etc. So I need it to sound good at low volume which I am
confident axe fx2 will do, and much more.
My problem is the following:
In my living room, I've got a 5.1 sound system for my DVD, 2 Large 200W Jamo hifi speakers hooked up to my cd player
and tuner. I've got 2 Old Yamaha studio / keyboard speakers (not shielded) hooked to my rack with synths and guitar effects. On my computer
I've got a normal 2.1 sub system with an additional pair of 80w Hifi speakers from Technics.
It's ridicilous really summing it all up, hahaha but it has accumulated over the years.
So I am trying to get rid of some speakers and stuff obvioulsy, being that much of my speakers are old and not the best quality anyway.
Buying such an awesome effect as axe fx 2 I want to have a resonably good speaker set hooked up to it. Having to throw in my wallet an arm and a leg to afford the axe fx2 I cannot afford to go for the more high end speakers. I was thinking about krk5 or krk8 or something like that, but I typically don't mix stuff and doing advanced sound editing stuff. But simply playing mp3 and on top of that destroying it with meaningless noodeling using my guitar.
Seems like everybody recomend people to go for studio speakers, but is that good for listening to music as well
I mean from records and concert movies etc.?
I got myself a fasttrack pro from M-Audio as a soundcard a year ago, and that thing has only created trouble, and the company
doesn't support their products. Old inadequate drivers, unsolved problems that can be traced back 3-4 years.
I will never buy or recomend anything that has the name M-Audio on it. When the card worked it sounded good, but having the
drivers crash and fail on a weekly basis is unacceptable and no respose on support request, that being said I'm a network
technician and have over 20 years computer experience so I am no stranger to drivers, computers, and fail searching.
So I will by another one, probably an Alesis IO4 to use as a midi interface and a soundcard on my workstation.
To shorten it down:
need it to sound good at very low volumes,
need a new soundcard for midi stuff,
can I use a hifi stereo reciever as output?
hifi speakers?
if studio monitors, will the sound good overall?
listening to music 90% of the time, often headphones when playing guitar
Sorry about the long posting, but I wanted to explain who I am and what my current setup is
like. And I figured maybe get to know some of you ladies and gentlemens that are using
and supporting this incredible product. I can hardly wait til I get my hands on mine.
Well thank you reading this, and I am grateful for any kind of tip
on what to buy or avoid etc ..
you all have a good one
//Kenneth
