Muad'zin
Fractal Fanatic
When you're about to gig and your pedal board doesn't work.
I was at a small festival and the headliner, Navarone, was going to take the stage and soundcheck and the guitarist in front of me did something I was intimately familiar with. Strumming the guitar and not getting the sound you wanted. Or as I like to call it: catastrophic pedal board failure. His dirt worked as it should, but whenever he tried to hit his cleans he got this anemic gated farting noise. God am I familiar with this problem when I still used pedals. And the frantic searching trying to find and isolate the problem. The poor fellow, I really felt for him, tried frantically with the guitar tech and his fellow guitarist to find the problem, ripping out pedals, cables, even the Boss looper switcher. In the end, like a good pro, he went with what he got and gigged with only his dirty sounds. Still a rockin' show. Kudos for that. Well done.
This is why I am glad to use the Axe FX. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a pedal board is a very complicated system, with lots of potential weak links. Now I just plug in my guitar, plug two XLR's into the FOH and I am set. Thanks Fractal, for giving me this great tool that has the sound of a massive pedal board, without the hassle of a massive pedal board.
I'm a member of a local guitarist facebook group, and these guys are doing great things to help guitarists and their gear, organizing workshops and stuff. Good work, but they are a bit snobby on the analog side, always making fun of modeling. So, because payback's a bitch, I posted this pic with the caption 'That sinking feeling when you know your pedal board is not working and you should have gotten an Axe-FX'
Man did that drew a big response. Usually the average post gets a few likes and reactions. I really stirred up the hornets nest of the analog fanboys this time. Bad troll, Muad'zin, bad troll.