Lots of hype over this little processor. How do we feel about it? Is it genuinely as good as having a tube amp?
Anyone played through one or have one themselves?
Anyone played through one or have one themselves?
Is i still the same sort of price if you want an SLO for the leads, a VH-4 mixed with a JCM-800 for the distorted rhythm, a Matchless for the bluesy break up and a Dr Z and a Fender for the cleans and then what happens when you want to do carry all that in a Ford Transit along with the drum kit???
By the time your done you could have bought that elusive Mesa, Diezel, Fender, Bogner, Matchless or whatever tone you were after with the REAL thing.
100% agreed but.............I don't care if the audience can figure it out or not,I care about my ears.I love mesa boogie tone so I want a mesa tone.No modeller tilll today can give it to me.Try one. If you play live no one in the audience will ever figure out its not the real thing.
This sort of statement is SO true. The vibe that you get from a certain piece of gear can be often worth more than the price of said gear and a key part of a players performance even more than his toneAs for me though, I am vain. I care almost as much about the feel and vibe I get from having a certain amp behind me as I do about the sound. That doesn't diminish how much I care about sound, it just means that I care about it being an amp.
To me, this is the biggest selling point of a modeler, though some modelers prefer one or the other. It seems that Axe-Fx doesn't have this problem.PS: I play Strats and Lesters live. I have two sets of patches set up for either guitar. On the Lonestar I had to adjust my settings and pedals.