unFILTERed
Power User
After almost 10 years of using Axe FX in studio and on stage lately i came to this,
sharing my thoughts to see how others approach this...
1) I don’t need more than 2-3 amps. If you give a shot and use the same IR and Speaker setting, i think most will agree most amps sound almost the same. Like there are tens of Marshalls...100w Plexi can do all what others do in my opinion. I would only choose a modern version over it if the ghost notes/that vintage-dirty vibe was getting in the way.
2) Beside fuzzes and special sounds why a drive block? A drive block to get a plexi lead out of a fender...yes it’s nice but i can choose a plexi as an amp instead. Or stirring the soup, if Gilmour could carry around 4-5 Hiwatt Heads and turn the master all the way up.(no even at stadium gigs he could not, read bunch of times that he was already too loud.) I think he would not have used most of his pedals. Turn that master of Hiwatt Jumpered all the way up...and you can get from clean to edge of break up...or saturated lead sound to growl...anything.
What do you guys think? There is no wrong or right with these stuff...and you can get great results with a lot of different ways with the axe fx...but things got way simpler for me lately with this mind set...2-3 amps, 8-9 IRs, drive block only for fuzzes. Though with FX i still go crazy and can hit the cpu limit(just with kitchen sink presets)
edit: should have mentioned, this is mostly about amps like hiwatt, matchless, fender, plexi or similar. I don’t play mesa, engle etc. And i am also having this approach when i go FRFR and stay all “in the box”. When i use a traditional guitar cab, things change...
sharing my thoughts to see how others approach this...
1) I don’t need more than 2-3 amps. If you give a shot and use the same IR and Speaker setting, i think most will agree most amps sound almost the same. Like there are tens of Marshalls...100w Plexi can do all what others do in my opinion. I would only choose a modern version over it if the ghost notes/that vintage-dirty vibe was getting in the way.
2) Beside fuzzes and special sounds why a drive block? A drive block to get a plexi lead out of a fender...yes it’s nice but i can choose a plexi as an amp instead. Or stirring the soup, if Gilmour could carry around 4-5 Hiwatt Heads and turn the master all the way up.(no even at stadium gigs he could not, read bunch of times that he was already too loud.) I think he would not have used most of his pedals. Turn that master of Hiwatt Jumpered all the way up...and you can get from clean to edge of break up...or saturated lead sound to growl...anything.
What do you guys think? There is no wrong or right with these stuff...and you can get great results with a lot of different ways with the axe fx...but things got way simpler for me lately with this mind set...2-3 amps, 8-9 IRs, drive block only for fuzzes. Though with FX i still go crazy and can hit the cpu limit(just with kitchen sink presets)
edit: should have mentioned, this is mostly about amps like hiwatt, matchless, fender, plexi or similar. I don’t play mesa, engle etc. And i am also having this approach when i go FRFR and stay all “in the box”. When i use a traditional guitar cab, things change...
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