ForeverDawn said:.....I want a variety of super solid clean, crunch, and high gain tones that sound great raw or with just a hint of reverb....just like an amp!
.......The ever tweaking ever evolving tone is a bunch of garbage in my opinion.......
......I plug into a 6505+, put the eq on flat, turn the gain up to taste and its amazing right away (distortion).
Right on. Very well put.JWDubois said:ForeverDawn said:.....I want a variety of super solid clean, crunch, and high gain tones that sound great raw or with just a hint of reverb....just like an amp!
.......The ever tweaking ever evolving tone is a bunch of garbage in my opinion.......
......I plug into a 6505+, put the eq on flat, turn the gain up to taste and its amazing right away (distortion).
To answer your question, I would buy the Axe again, I love it. For my low volume studio it's perfect and sounds fantastic.
But I see a lot of red flags in your post. The people that seem to have the most trouble with the Axe are high volume, "must sound and feel just like my tube amp stack and I don't want to have to tweak" guys. There are certainly lots of guys who have had success replacing their amps in high volume applications, but there is going to be some tweaking and experimentation involved, it's just the nature of the beast. The guys without the patience to do this are the ones who show up on TGP bagging the Axe when it doesn't work for them right out of the box.
JWW
Dutch said:Right on. Very well put.JWDubois said:ForeverDawn said:.....I want a variety of super solid clean, crunch, and high gain tones that sound great raw or with just a hint of reverb....just like an amp!
.......The ever tweaking ever evolving tone is a bunch of garbage in my opinion.......
......I plug into a 6505+, put the eq on flat, turn the gain up to taste and its amazing right away (distortion).
To answer your question, I would buy the Axe again, I love it. For my low volume studio it's perfect and sounds fantastic.
But I see a lot of red flags in your post. The people that seem to have the most trouble with the Axe are high volume, "must sound and feel just like my tube amp stack and I don't want to have to tweak" guys. There are certainly lots of guys who have had success replacing their amps in high volume applications, but there is going to be some tweaking and experimentation involved, it's just the nature of the beast. The guys without the patience to do this are the ones who show up on TGP bagging the Axe when it doesn't work for them right out of the box.
JWW
shasha said:Only regret I have to this point is having waited several years to believe the hype. Lots of time wasted trying to dial in tones with other stuff that could have been spent playing happily.
I'd absolutely buy it again.
But that's just me; can't speak for everyone.