After buying, selling and owning lots of different amps trough the years and loosing lots of money doing this I can finally say that for me the AXE FX Ultra is really the Holy Grail for me!
I have tried many high gain amps, from Marshall JCM 800, 900 XL, DSl 50, Peavey 5150 II, Mesa Single,dual rectifier and triple rectifier and few others. My two favorites were the mesa Mark IV and orange rockerver 50. The orange was great because of the plug and play ability and always sounds good even at bedroom level!
The Mark IV was also an incredible amp but when the soundman at our show needed me to lower my sound it was a big pain in the ass!! You can't only turn the master volume down you need to use 35 different combination of the 200 front and back knobs and switch to only lower your volume without changing your sound!!
And Tubes!!! Yeah NOS tubes sounds great but they cost $/"$$"$$$$$! and weight!??
Now the AXE!!! Take all the amps I owned and even more, yeah you can have the same or even more options than the mark IV but once you got your volume right both for gigs and at home you can SAVE THEM!!! Add to this already incredible list of amps, superb effects, endless routing possibility, a built in tuner and I haven't even really build my own sound yet! Only using the axe presets and few others from Axe change!!
My girlfriend must hate Cliff right now because I'm aways talking about the axe fx! But at least cliff cured my GAS!!
THANKS!
I have tried many high gain amps, from Marshall JCM 800, 900 XL, DSl 50, Peavey 5150 II, Mesa Single,dual rectifier and triple rectifier and few others. My two favorites were the mesa Mark IV and orange rockerver 50. The orange was great because of the plug and play ability and always sounds good even at bedroom level!
The Mark IV was also an incredible amp but when the soundman at our show needed me to lower my sound it was a big pain in the ass!! You can't only turn the master volume down you need to use 35 different combination of the 200 front and back knobs and switch to only lower your volume without changing your sound!!
And Tubes!!! Yeah NOS tubes sounds great but they cost $/"$$"$$$$$! and weight!??
Now the AXE!!! Take all the amps I owned and even more, yeah you can have the same or even more options than the mark IV but once you got your volume right both for gigs and at home you can SAVE THEM!!! Add to this already incredible list of amps, superb effects, endless routing possibility, a built in tuner and I haven't even really build my own sound yet! Only using the axe presets and few others from Axe change!!
My girlfriend must hate Cliff right now because I'm aways talking about the axe fx! But at least cliff cured my GAS!!
THANKS!