cleanplanets
Member
Hi guys,
At this point I'm just a guitar nerd home studio player - However I find it hard to stay inspired without good tone. I have tried all the VST plugin's, and I just cant seem to get along with any of them. they all sound lifeless and thin to my ears - maybe its my interface? (focusrite 6i6 gen2). I run from my interface to my 8" frfr monitors if I want to move some air, or my Sennheiser hd650's if I want to be quiet.
most recently I tried the pod go, and it sounded good, but had an annoying fizz/fuzziness that couldn't be EQ'd out without losing some feel. I tried playing with all the settings for each block, moved everything around etc. etc. etc.....at the end of the day it just wasn't cutting it for me.
after that out of curiosity I tried helix native - same story with the vst plugin thing. it just doesn't have that mojo I'm looking for.
so now going to take the plunge and go the axeIII or fm3 route. Over on the line 6 forum they tried to keep telling me that helix native can produce the same tone as the axeIII no problem, and I must have been doing something wrong . How is my generic PC, and some cheap interface going to sound as good as a full fledged engineered dedicated piece of hardware like the axeIII? seems pretty strait forward to me?
Anyway, I don't need the complex presets that the axeIII can handle (although nice to have), but the dual amps has me interested. does the ability to have dual amps ( and everything else the axeIII has) make a noticeable benefit in tone / feel over the FM3? or is it more splitting hairs?
At this point I'm just a guitar nerd home studio player - However I find it hard to stay inspired without good tone. I have tried all the VST plugin's, and I just cant seem to get along with any of them. they all sound lifeless and thin to my ears - maybe its my interface? (focusrite 6i6 gen2). I run from my interface to my 8" frfr monitors if I want to move some air, or my Sennheiser hd650's if I want to be quiet.
most recently I tried the pod go, and it sounded good, but had an annoying fizz/fuzziness that couldn't be EQ'd out without losing some feel. I tried playing with all the settings for each block, moved everything around etc. etc. etc.....at the end of the day it just wasn't cutting it for me.
after that out of curiosity I tried helix native - same story with the vst plugin thing. it just doesn't have that mojo I'm looking for.
so now going to take the plunge and go the axeIII or fm3 route. Over on the line 6 forum they tried to keep telling me that helix native can produce the same tone as the axeIII no problem, and I must have been doing something wrong . How is my generic PC, and some cheap interface going to sound as good as a full fledged engineered dedicated piece of hardware like the axeIII? seems pretty strait forward to me?
Anyway, I don't need the complex presets that the axeIII can handle (although nice to have), but the dual amps has me interested. does the ability to have dual amps ( and everything else the axeIII has) make a noticeable benefit in tone / feel over the FM3? or is it more splitting hairs?