So this thread got me thinking, I've been in the fractal family ,starting with the Ultra . Always had a great tone with studio monitors and head phones But live never could get what I wanted, its been a rabbit hole , oh maybe speakers ,maybe a new power amp. I got rid of the ax2 because of this.
So last year got the ax8, same thing , Live playing with a old ADA power amp with preamp tubes( had a matrix) and a stereo 2x12 cab. I've read (almost every thread ) , put a graphic EQ in ,put a perimetric eq, try this try that , another rabbit hole .I'm tone anal . I drive myself crazy ,spend more time tweaking than playing,45 years (Yes I'm an old rocker)
Then comes this thread,I stopped thinking stereo,I set my I/O to sum left + right, changed my effects to mono and went into a 2x12 cab with Celestion 75's .Its the tone I've been looking for. Not sure if it was what because running stereo with the speakers in the same cab .Alway had this maybe some type of out of phase thing going on. but never could get to sound like plugging into a tube amp with a bit of reverb, Untill I tried this .
I do keep the power amp on , no cabs of course. but tweaking has been narrowed down to just the amp main page.Two things happened to get to this point is I bought a used Marshall jvm 410h and this thread . Love my marshall, using the 410 in the ax8 ,have gotten confused which one I was using when playing with tunes .