Shenks
Experienced
Last night me and the band were headline spot for a motorbike rally gig in the beautiful Lake District just outside of Silverdale (England for those across the pond and elsewhere)...
Usual story, arrive, go meet the sound engineer and discuss everything, and as soon as I mention I will be providing a DI from the AXE FX his words were 'that is awesome - I had my first experience of a Fractal Audio product last night so I know what to expect'.
2 hour set went amazingly quickly, beautiful tone FOH with the sound engineer telling me afterwards that he left the EQ flat. I had my trusty Q12 as my monitor so I knew the tones were pretty much dialled in but he did suggest raising the low pass threshold by a little bit in the CAB block.
A great gig in a large marquee that went down really well with the audience who were up for complete participation and fun. They wanted us to keep on playing but noise limitation agreements meant we had to finish at 11pm.
Afterwards I had other musicians complementing me and asking where my amp was hiding and was it a Marshall or a Fender or a <insert other amp name here>... a few confused expressions when I mentioned the Axe FX, but probably just as many remarking that they had heard of them but never actually heard them.
In summary, if you get a sound engineer who has the knowledge and you have your Axe FX dialled in, there is no reason for your tone to be anything less than stellar. Another win for Axe FX
Usual story, arrive, go meet the sound engineer and discuss everything, and as soon as I mention I will be providing a DI from the AXE FX his words were 'that is awesome - I had my first experience of a Fractal Audio product last night so I know what to expect'.
2 hour set went amazingly quickly, beautiful tone FOH with the sound engineer telling me afterwards that he left the EQ flat. I had my trusty Q12 as my monitor so I knew the tones were pretty much dialled in but he did suggest raising the low pass threshold by a little bit in the CAB block.
A great gig in a large marquee that went down really well with the audience who were up for complete participation and fun. They wanted us to keep on playing but noise limitation agreements meant we had to finish at 11pm.
Afterwards I had other musicians complementing me and asking where my amp was hiding and was it a Marshall or a Fender or a <insert other amp name here>... a few confused expressions when I mentioned the Axe FX, but probably just as many remarking that they had heard of them but never actually heard them.
In summary, if you get a sound engineer who has the knowledge and you have your Axe FX dialled in, there is no reason for your tone to be anything less than stellar. Another win for Axe FX