dtpancio
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So..I just picked up a Mesa/Boogie Mark V 25 and a Two Notes Captor, and I tried to do this:
Guitar-->Axe-Fx's Instr Input-->[pre gain stage effects]-->Axe-Fx's Fx loop send-->Mark V's input-->Mark V's speaker output-->Captor Speaker input-->Captor Line Out-->Axe-Fx's Fx loop return-->[cab block and post gain stage effects]-->Axe-Fx's outputs-->Audio Interface-->Studio Monitors
Just replacing the amp block on my presets with an FXL block.
It's a sort of 4CM because you still have effects pre and post, but you're placing the amp in the FX Loop of the Axe-Fx II and you're not returning into the amp (the tone of which is already pre and power amplified), and then you have stereo effects.
On the paper I think it's a brilliant solution, because you can use the best effects processor on the market, the best IRs, the best amplification (if you have a real amp better than the Axe-Fx II models ) and you can apply post gain stage effects after the power amp, without any possible compression or loss of quality from the amp's FX loop, stereo, like you do in studio when you apply delays and reverbs in the daw.
So..why I struggled finding information about this kind of rig? Nobody is interested in this routing? Why I only find standard 4CM as integration of a tube amp in the axe fx chain? Maybe there are some cons about it?
Let me hear your thoughts!
Guitar-->Axe-Fx's Instr Input-->[pre gain stage effects]-->Axe-Fx's Fx loop send-->Mark V's input-->Mark V's speaker output-->Captor Speaker input-->Captor Line Out-->Axe-Fx's Fx loop return-->[cab block and post gain stage effects]-->Axe-Fx's outputs-->Audio Interface-->Studio Monitors
Just replacing the amp block on my presets with an FXL block.
It's a sort of 4CM because you still have effects pre and post, but you're placing the amp in the FX Loop of the Axe-Fx II and you're not returning into the amp (the tone of which is already pre and power amplified), and then you have stereo effects.
On the paper I think it's a brilliant solution, because you can use the best effects processor on the market, the best IRs, the best amplification (if you have a real amp better than the Axe-Fx II models ) and you can apply post gain stage effects after the power amp, without any possible compression or loss of quality from the amp's FX loop, stereo, like you do in studio when you apply delays and reverbs in the daw.
So..why I struggled finding information about this kind of rig? Nobody is interested in this routing? Why I only find standard 4CM as integration of a tube amp in the axe fx chain? Maybe there are some cons about it?
Let me hear your thoughts!