[The Dev]

I hope to get it tomorrow, committed to making it kick ass, love digital.

I can't wait to rock with it with y'all!

A few months of sounding like shit in rehearsal with it is expected...I'm doing my research though.

I just hope you can somehow use the axe-fx without making peavey a little upset peavey is cool, but the axe-fx rocks.

it really is a cool unit - all the time i think of different things to try with it. yesterday was this:
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nevermind the playing, i wasnt intending on saving that video...

but, a lot of the standard presets are crappy. they are only useful (in my opinion) for seeing how complex signal chains can be and to get some ideas to make your own stuff.

but you have played with a lot more toys than i have probably even seen with my eyes, i'm sure you'll get the hang of it and slay many a pirate whilst wailing like a ninja....

[The Dev]

Just trying out options, Peavey has the revalver which is cool, if they made a head...

I don't know ...at this point the Fractal is ideal for me at rehearsal because we move around so much...set up in a second.

Still months to go.

Yeah, thats just it. I take my guitar, my little rack case thing with the axe in it, and all i need is a guitar lead, a power cable and i use a sustain pedal from a keyboard to switch between patches.

xlr to the PA and im set for gigs and for practice.

my floor monitor is really just for me at home cos i don't have a PA.


If you weren't happy with the "mic'd guitar tone" as apposed to the "amp in the room tone" you would need a poweramp/cab, so thats more setting up and moving, but still, its flexible and sounds great.

Just trying out options, Peavey has the revalver which is cool, if they made a head...

I don't know ...at this point the Fractal is ideal for me at rehearsal because we move around so much...set up in a second.

Still months to go.

I play solo shows using Guitar Rig 3 and Revalver straight to the PA. It probably has nothing on the Axe-FX, but it works for what I do.

that´s cool that you´re going the axe-fx route, i´ve been wanting one of those for a while. i´m assuming you´re getting the ultra? (the gear of my dreams, that thing!)

as far as monitoring/amping goes, you can do both tube or solid state power amp, because you can turn the power amp modelling on or off. i´d deactivate it and use a real tube power amp for live use, and reserve that power amp simulator for direct recording.

apparently, there´s a large benefit in trying out all the preset patches since many of them will show off how you can use effects in insane ways, and will show how some effects and features work. for example, i believe you can use the input signal´s velocity and pitch to modulate different parameters.

try out all the different amp models, and find out which one sounds the best to you, and then once you´ve gotten a good setting out of it, start tinkering with the different amp model settings (which are insanely many, with bias adjustments, different EQ stacks, all sorts of other really deep settings), and then start using parametric EQs to fine tune things. you can boost the signal pre-dstortion in different ways, of course, and... well, you get the deal.

it´s perfect for your type of setup, since it has dual amp features. using one layer for highs and one layer for lows, one for dry and one for wet (with totally different settings, maybe?)... possibilities are endless. and you can get al that sound variety from that one unit and one stereo cab, so that´s a reasonable downsize too. i think you could pull off pretty much all of your sounds with that unit alone. it´s also flexible for live usage, since you can run it into a power amp and cabinet, and run a separate signal with power amp and cabinet simulators on through the PA, instead of micing the cab.

as you can tell, i´ve spent way more time than i should reading about this thing and listening to clips of it, and all of that. i´m stuck with a POD X3, so what is a man to do?

i wanna try out the vocoder function, the resonance filter function, and the pitch-shifted echoes effects. and of course the amp models beat the shit out of line 6 stuff.

wish i had money.

hey everyone I got my Axe-Fx Ultra yesterday and it sounds pretty good so far, but the patches need some moar work

word on the street is, that if you want the best tone with the axe, you need to combine several "Red Wirez" impulse responses into one cabinet impulse response file and load it into the Axe Fx as a custom cab...

http://www.redwirez.com

that way you can take e.g. a close mic IR + a off axsis mic IR + a further away mic IR etc. and fuse them together with some IR program and create your custom cab IR files


oh and by the way: Peavey is releasing some super light weight digital power amps next month. The 500w one weights only 4kg or something (8lbs)
If these sound ok, then you could make a super light weight rig with that power amp + axe fx

sooo, is the unit in yet? i´m excited to hear what you think of it

Great, you're going to have a world of fun with the unit, Devin.

I'm actually debating selling my Diezel in favor of a stereo poweramp and the Axefx for just about everything I do...never thought I'd do that.

[The Dev]

Thanks for the redwirez tip!

slightly off-topic, but have you ever tried an Orange 4X12? those things are really awesome for any kind of music

it´s only slightly off-topic, because it would be a great cab to use with the axe-fx. well, except for them not being stereo, i guess.

those redwirez impulses seem really nice compared to alot of impulses that i´ve come across. they get what it´s all about.

Thanks for the redwirez tip!

http://recabi.net/site/ Recabinet is worth checking out as well (and comes with AxeFx compatible impulses). I spent hours messing around with different combinations like a on-axis 57 combined with an off-axis 57 combined with a D6 for some cabinet "weight". Although if you really have time to mess around with some quality preamps and such, you could always just make your own impulses out of whatever mic setup you used on the album.

But yeah, using some 3rd party cab impulses does wonders for sound quality and blows the doors open for what you can do with live reproduction. I always wanted to mic up a combo from across a nice sounding room with a U87 or some obscure ribbon mic and load that into the AxeFx for live use.

On a side note, the Addicted teaser sounds great Dev, can't wait!

hey, for anyone who is worried that the Axe-Fx might be too complicated: Now after the first real tweaking weekend with the Axe I started to sound good!! So it doesn't necessarily takes months to get your basic tones.

It started to get way simpler when I put the cab & mic simulations aside and just used my REAL cab instead of going direct.
So I made it sound good with my cab that I'll will play live with anyway and AFTERWARDS create some CAB impulse responses that will sound good with the same patches to go into the PA in stereo (for the obvious stereo delay etc. reasons)

another good idea is to compare the sound of your Axe patch and a real amp through the same cabinet, otherwise you might dial in weird stuff with all those parameters.

One last tip: Don't use patches that where created by some shredder on a forum

Thanks for the redwirez tip!

OMG, cool, some of my friends will be jealous now that the production mastermind took a tip from me

First, i want to by the Axe FX.
I really liked the Sound, but now i´ve got a cheaper, and for me, better thing.
I bought the Digidesign Eleven Rack. It has also good sounds an for an Apprentice is this a lot of money.

Christian

First, i want to by the Axe FX.
I really liked the Sound, but now i´ve got a cheaper, and for me, better thing.
I bought the Digidesign Eleven Rack. It has also good sounds an for an Apprentice is this a lot of money.

Christian

there are a lot of pro features missing in the eleven rack, and devin is a pro.

not that i am, but anyway the digidesign unit didnt exist when i bought my stuff.