ChainOfThought
Experienced
I bought a 12" passive xitone wedge not too long ago and now I'm struggling to find any reason why I should keep it. I want to put it right at the top here that this has nothing to do with the xitone itself, I think its an insanely awesome cab and I do still sort of want a second one in spite of everything thats about to follow.
I don't play live, so gear load-in/out and minimizing weight and footprint and everything is a 100% non-issue for me. I share a practice space with one other guitarist, I run a 2x12 and he runs a 4x12. The sound in the room is awesome and we record everything direct so thats pretty awesome too. I use studio monitors for the mixing and for checking/tweaking the direct recording tone.
I thought I would enjoy it for not being a directional speaker, the whole thing about 'not having to worry about a sweet spot' and all that...but I've found that sitting in a sweet spot is almost more important for FRFR than it is my cab. Might be due to the small room size or something, I don't really know, I just feel like I have an opposite experience in that regard to what 99% of people say.
I thought I would enjoy it for tweaking the recorded tones, but I'm pretty sure the monitors actually do me better for that task.
I would definitely enjoy a stereo pair for pumping music & stuff through....but thats ridiculous and I'm not investing in the second wedge just for this purpose.
I don't care about having access to IR's for 'authentic' tones and all that...I have access to all that for recording, I don't need it for playing in the room. I pretty much do one or two clean tones, one or two crunches, and a couple high gain tones. I love my cab & I'm 100% OK with it flavoring all of the tones.
So basically, I feel like I'm still missing some key piece to all this and once I figure it out I'll be as much in love with FRFR as everyone else around here...but I also logically just can't see how that would be the case. I just can't figure out any use that I actually have for an FRFR setup, given my specific circumstance.
I think I'm gonna have to sell this xitone, as much as I want to find a reason to keep it. Damn.
I don't play live, so gear load-in/out and minimizing weight and footprint and everything is a 100% non-issue for me. I share a practice space with one other guitarist, I run a 2x12 and he runs a 4x12. The sound in the room is awesome and we record everything direct so thats pretty awesome too. I use studio monitors for the mixing and for checking/tweaking the direct recording tone.
I thought I would enjoy it for not being a directional speaker, the whole thing about 'not having to worry about a sweet spot' and all that...but I've found that sitting in a sweet spot is almost more important for FRFR than it is my cab. Might be due to the small room size or something, I don't really know, I just feel like I have an opposite experience in that regard to what 99% of people say.
I thought I would enjoy it for tweaking the recorded tones, but I'm pretty sure the monitors actually do me better for that task.
I would definitely enjoy a stereo pair for pumping music & stuff through....but thats ridiculous and I'm not investing in the second wedge just for this purpose.
I don't care about having access to IR's for 'authentic' tones and all that...I have access to all that for recording, I don't need it for playing in the room. I pretty much do one or two clean tones, one or two crunches, and a couple high gain tones. I love my cab & I'm 100% OK with it flavoring all of the tones.
So basically, I feel like I'm still missing some key piece to all this and once I figure it out I'll be as much in love with FRFR as everyone else around here...but I also logically just can't see how that would be the case. I just can't figure out any use that I actually have for an FRFR setup, given my specific circumstance.
I think I'm gonna have to sell this xitone, as much as I want to find a reason to keep it. Damn.