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I used to love my Axe II with V8 and V9. It sounded so smooth but at the same time had this amazing clarity I've never heard from any other modeler units.
After installing V10, I'm kind of torn between liking it and disliking it.
Some amps improved a lot, for example, the Plexis - I'm just amazed how close they sound to the real thing now. Same goes for the 5153, spot on. Also the overall feel of playing became quite more realistic, I like how the pick attack sounds and feels now, I like how pinch harmonics sound exactly like they do through a tube amp, I absolutely love how playing dynamics work.
On the other hand, though, all the mid and higher gain amps that I used to like a lot seem to have lost their clarity now and became quite muddy and boomy on the low end. I've tried dialing it out with the Global EQ and also with the amp controls but I couldn't get as far as I wanted yet, just closer to what I'd want to hear.
It's also very interesting how much I loved my Axe with my LP and how much I hated it with my Tele - now it's more like the other way around, and it's mostly due to my Tele being correctly bright now, but at the same time my LP becoming way too muddy.
It could be that MIMIC really brought us closer to the original amps, but right now I'm not entirely sure that it is worth the price, because in my case, I'm yet to find the sounds that I've loved on V9, and V10 is actually supposed to be much more realistic and better, if you like.
What do you guys think? Is it just that the Axe requires more tweaking now or do you feel what I feel?
Edit:
Thank you for all your advices guys.
I had more time to spend with my Axe II today and my jaw has finally officially dropped so low that I can't pick it up.
I found out a few things about V10 that might be worth to notice for people who are struggling with it:
1. The "mud" can be super easily dialed out with the Air and Room parameters in the Cab block, and now everything I thought was muddy sounds super uber mega holy shitballs cool!
2. For some reason I didn't notice that my output levels were quite a lot lower than what I was used to in V9, I turned it up and it immediately got a whole lot better.
3. I've found my BEST lead tone ever with the Legacy today, sustaining as long as I hold it, frequency nirvana, gain nirvana, tonal armageddon. My conclusion of discovering this is that the factory patches should never even be considered if you are really after a serious tone, because they can be very far from what you can achieve with tweaking.
4. V10 definitely needs more tweaking if you are used to V9 because everything that needed little adjustments needs quite radical changes now.
5. The new cabs are great but we shouldn't forget about the old cabs neither because they still sound fabulous and I think that many people who are struggling should change back to the old cabs from the new ones - the new cabs require absolutely different dialing in on the amp side of things, too, and could be hard to dial in correctly for the first time.
So yeah, as always, Cliff was right, I was doing things wrong, and now I'm absolutely stunned and satisfied with V10!
After installing V10, I'm kind of torn between liking it and disliking it.
Some amps improved a lot, for example, the Plexis - I'm just amazed how close they sound to the real thing now. Same goes for the 5153, spot on. Also the overall feel of playing became quite more realistic, I like how the pick attack sounds and feels now, I like how pinch harmonics sound exactly like they do through a tube amp, I absolutely love how playing dynamics work.
On the other hand, though, all the mid and higher gain amps that I used to like a lot seem to have lost their clarity now and became quite muddy and boomy on the low end. I've tried dialing it out with the Global EQ and also with the amp controls but I couldn't get as far as I wanted yet, just closer to what I'd want to hear.
It's also very interesting how much I loved my Axe with my LP and how much I hated it with my Tele - now it's more like the other way around, and it's mostly due to my Tele being correctly bright now, but at the same time my LP becoming way too muddy.
It could be that MIMIC really brought us closer to the original amps, but right now I'm not entirely sure that it is worth the price, because in my case, I'm yet to find the sounds that I've loved on V9, and V10 is actually supposed to be much more realistic and better, if you like.
What do you guys think? Is it just that the Axe requires more tweaking now or do you feel what I feel?
Edit:
Thank you for all your advices guys.
I had more time to spend with my Axe II today and my jaw has finally officially dropped so low that I can't pick it up.
I found out a few things about V10 that might be worth to notice for people who are struggling with it:
1. The "mud" can be super easily dialed out with the Air and Room parameters in the Cab block, and now everything I thought was muddy sounds super uber mega holy shitballs cool!
2. For some reason I didn't notice that my output levels were quite a lot lower than what I was used to in V9, I turned it up and it immediately got a whole lot better.
3. I've found my BEST lead tone ever with the Legacy today, sustaining as long as I hold it, frequency nirvana, gain nirvana, tonal armageddon. My conclusion of discovering this is that the factory patches should never even be considered if you are really after a serious tone, because they can be very far from what you can achieve with tweaking.
4. V10 definitely needs more tweaking if you are used to V9 because everything that needed little adjustments needs quite radical changes now.
5. The new cabs are great but we shouldn't forget about the old cabs neither because they still sound fabulous and I think that many people who are struggling should change back to the old cabs from the new ones - the new cabs require absolutely different dialing in on the amp side of things, too, and could be hard to dial in correctly for the first time.
So yeah, as always, Cliff was right, I was doing things wrong, and now I'm absolutely stunned and satisfied with V10!
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