Cool.
Did you get a chance to mess with the preset I emailed you?
Really enjoying your ongoing review of this.
Did you get a chance to mess with the preset I emailed you?
Really enjoying your ongoing review of this.
Scott Peterson said:Cool.
Did you get a chance to mess with the preset I emailed you?
Really enjoying your ongoing review of this.
fatoni said:why do you choose the 12ma over the 12a? do you use it just to monitor your sound or as the primary source of your sound?
Dutch said:If you don't use the loop in the Axe-FX you can use output2 for the monitor and run the Output1 straight to foh.
That way you can control the monitor level from the Axe-FX front panel and even EQ the sends independently using the global EQs.
Dutch said:The QSC has issues with phantom power when the is sent to a mixboard that has no individual phantom. Don't know about the FBT.
mitch236 said:Well I bit the bullet and bought a pair of 12ma's. They sound great! They really don't sound like the typical stage monitor I'm used to hearing, they sound very neutral.
I was wondering about using output 2 for the monitors. It seems the ma's only have a balanced input so how would I use the unbalanced output 2 for the ma's?
Congratulations on your epiphany. It is clear that your first Axe-Fx experience was not entirely satisfactory. At the time, you attributed your experience to the limitations of modeling in general. Would you not now agree that the potential has been there all along, and that it is simply up to the player to realize it? IOW, that there is indeed a learning curve, but that that is truly all that stands between the player and the sounds he wants to make?hippietim said:Well, I did my first live gig ever going direct with the Axe-FX.... I was really apprehensive about this all week and I *almost* reverted to grabbing a tube rig and a pedalboard. But I went for it.
It worked fucking fantastic!
"Cutting" or "not cutting" is far more a function of control settings and playing choices than of equipment selection. Poor choices of settings can make an Axe-Fx as muddy and indistinct as anything can be, just as good choices can make it as articulate and distinct as the very "best" physical amp there is. It's all in your settings and playing. The tool is not in itself a limitation.Anyone that has concerns about this thing cutting through the mix, I can assure you it cuts fantastic.
As I have pointed out for more than a year, the other guitar players who hear me play my Axe-Fx/FRFR rig never figure out that I am not using a tube amp until I give them a tour of my rig. It does eventually become apparent to most listeners that something must be different, because I can create the kinds of well-produced sounds you would normally hear only on recordings or a well-mixed live system, but I'm doing so with just a small stage monitor and a very small PA with no sound man.I got a bunch of compliments on my tone. The guy running sound for us is a guitar playing buddy of my who is a total tone nut and a hardcore tube guy and he thought the rig sounded killer.
Jay Mitchell said:Congratulations on your epiphany. It is clear that your first Axe-Fx experience was not entirely satisfactory. At the time, you attributed your experience to the limitations of modeling in general. Would you not now agree that the potential has been there all along, and that it is simply up to the player to realize it? IOW, that there is indeed a learning curve, but that that is truly all that stands between the player and the sounds he wants to make?
That depends entirely on the level at which you approach the use of "traditional" gear. I always wanted sounds and feels that unmodified amps were not generally capable of producing. As a result, I ended up analyzing and modifying the last half dozen amps that I owned. When I was done - a process that typically took several months - the improvements were radical, but the effort required was nontrivial. Given this point of view, even if a budget modeler could really produce a convincing replica of the sound of a specific amp - in my experience, they all fall flat on their faces in that regard - that would not have been enough. I needed access to design parameters in order to fine-tune an amp's sound and feel. The Axe-Fx was, for me, orders of magnitude easier to work with than "traditional" amps, and it can produce results that are not even remotely possible with any other modeler at this time. All that is required to take full advantage of its potential is a sonically neutral amplification system. As you have discovered, identifying one of those can also be nontrivial, but there is nothing "special" about one model of neutral-sounding monitor as compared to any other. Ergo, there is no "right combo of modeler and amplification," but instead an optimum type of amplification to use with an Axe-Fx. BTW, the exact same attributes that render a monitor optimum for Axe-Fx use will also make it an excellent vocal/keyboard/sax monitor.hippietim said:The simple truth is that using modeling gear is harder than traditional gear until you land on the right combo of modeler and amplification.
Jay Mitchell said:If you want "quick and dirty" or "plug and play," the Axe-Fx is probably not the best tool for the job. If, OTOH, you can recognize the sounds you want to create when you hear them, and if you're willing to invest the required up-front time, nothing else even comes close. You will find that the learning curve ceases to be a major factor a few months into the experience, and creating new presets will take successively less time.
I think once you try stereo, you'll love it (and you'll keep the second 12ma). If not, there are plenty of folks on this forum who will buy it from you (will you ship to Canada? ;-)archangel said:...
I just bought a second 12ma...gonna experiment with stereo...if I decide to stick with mono I'll have to figure out what to do with an extra 12ma.
Dpoirier said:I think once you try stereo, you'll love it (and you'll keep the second 12ma). If not, there are plenty of folks on this forum who will buy it from you (will you ship to Canada? ;-)archangel said:...
I just bought a second 12ma...gonna experiment with stereo...if I decide to stick with mono I'll have to figure out what to do with an extra 12ma.