the-patient said:
samhill said:OUT 2 goes to ART SLA2/guitar cabs, OUT 1 goes direct to FOH. No cab sims to OUT 2, cab sims on for OUT 1
Mark
samhill said:Here's a true story..back in the 90's I used a 20 space Bradshaw rig and four 4x12's. There was a large club we played regularly. There was always this guitarist there that would chew the fat with me. He would make comments about my huge rack and why did I need all that stuff, but he liked my tone....but didn't love it
One night we were there and they changed the stage a bit, I had to run my rack off the side behind a curtain, still had the cabs on stage. So dude comes running up to me at the end of the night and says, "man I knew you would sound lot better if you didn't use all that shit!"
You should have seen his face when I pulled back the curtain...PRICELESS!
Guys will want to deny how good the AxeFx sounds...if they see it...lol.
Mark
Hi Mark! I know you said you weren't happy when you used the Mesas on Friday. Just curious...are you using the fx loop to send out 2 to your stage cabs? Did you try tweaking the out 2 global EQ? Of course, that would just be a temporary fix;...when you go to the next room, you may have to change the eq back. A better solution...that is as long as you have the resources available, may be adding a parametric eq block after the loop (bypassed) but available for tweaking if the global is not enough. I'm sure you had plenty of experience with weird room acoustics that wreak havoc on sounds that are killer on other gigs. With the paramid block, once you find the sweet spot, you could just write a set of your patches for that room without altering the foh settings if they already sounded fine. Shouldn't be a problem considering the huge amount of slots available....especially since you love to write patches (at least I think you do).samhill said:twentytwenty said:
In the video there are 3 patches, my main rhythm and main solo, and a spillover preset which is my main rhythm with a redundant delay block. I have a cc modifier on the delay so when I hit that IA on my Ground Control Pro it sends out midi cc10 to the AxeFx which has a modifier programmed on the delay 1 block...it increases the volume, the repeats and the delay time of that block. Works like a charm
Here are my latest patches and I have OUT1 setup for direct with the Cab and poweramp sims. My guitar is STUPID HOT so you may have to increase the gain on the O/D and amp sim. The title of each patch is pretty self explanatory. As always OUT 2 is for the ART SLA2/two 2x12" guitar cabs in stereo.
I have a volume controller connected to the mixer block using cc7. So if you get no sound look there first and just disable the modifier on the mixer block. Cliff would use a Vol/Pan Block instead of the mixer block so I will probably change the mixer block in all the patches to a Vol block instead. In the meantime the mixer block does the trick for the vol pedal assignment
http://files.me.com/samhillband/0lmsqv
I always share my patches
Mark
kabong said:Hi Mark! I know you said you weren't happy when you used the Mesas on Friday. Just curious...are you using the fx loop to send out 2 to your stage cabs? Did you try tweaking the out 2 global EQ? Of course, that would just be a temporary fix;...when you go to the next room, you may have to change the eq back. A better solution...that is as long as you have the resources available, may be adding a parametric eq block after the loop (bypassed) but available for tweaking if the global is not enough. I'm sure you had plenty of experience with weird room acoustics that wreak havoc on sounds that are killer on other gigs. With the paramid block, once you find the sweet spot, you could just write a set of your patches for that room without altering the foh settings if they already sounded fine. Shouldn't be a problem considering the huge amount of slots available....especially since you love to write patches (at least I think you do).
If you can get the stage tone and volume you need with less, who could ask for more?samhill said:kabong said:Hi Mark! I know you said you weren't happy when you used the Mesas on Friday. Just curious...are you using the fx loop to send out 2 to your stage cabs? Did you try tweaking the out 2 global EQ? Of course, that would just be a temporary fix;...when you go to the next room, you may have to change the eq back. A better solution...that is as long as you have the resources available, may be adding a parametric eq block after the loop (bypassed) but available for tweaking if the global is not enough. I'm sure you had plenty of experience with weird room acoustics that wreak havoc on sounds that are killer on other gigs. With the paramid block, once you find the sweet spot, you could just write a set of your patches for that room without altering the foh settings if they already sounded fine. Shouldn't be a problem considering the huge amount of slots available....especially since you love to write patches (at least I think you do).
Yes using the FX before the Cab sims.
Yes I was tweaking OUT 2 EQ
I use a PEQ Block
I find once I get a sound dialed in for any rig I don't fuss with it much...maybe some hi's or low's or a little more/less FX level.
You are correct in the amount of preset space available, I already of duplicate presets with slightly altered EQ's and FX levels for my lessons studio and for live, I guess if I wind up tweaking out different rooms I could save and name appropriately
The big issue was I dialed in the AxeFX for a 2x12" and threw two 4x12's at it...lol. I'm sure given a little time I could dial in the two Mesa's, however I am fine with the 2x12's saves my back and quite a bit of stage and trailer space
Mark
