O....M.....G.... Axe FX?

[Nadz1lla]

Shows how "out of the loop" I am, just heard one of these properly for the first time, didn't realise I was listening to an Amp modeler.... I have no words to describe it that are fit for a public, family friendly forum. Needless to say, I was fairly impressed by the "Amp" sound I was hearing, and when it turned out to be a modeler I made a sticky mess in my undergarments.

I've listened to some of Bulb's and Nolly's clips and I think I have found the be all and end all of my home recording needs. Just my luck this revelation had to come about just as I lose my job.  :( Wonder how many years of washing cars it'll take me to afford one. £1500 or thereabouts? Well worth it though if the clips are anything to go by.

Anyone here who has one, have you used it Live at all? And if so, how is it, and how would you use it? (Through PA or some other arrangement.)

Please excuse the n00b questions, I've never been great at figuring this stuff out.  :lol:

[murraymurray]

yeah, they seem to be awesome ay. i think you can run it straight through the PA or turn all the cab simulation off and run it through a poweramp and cab.
Im starting to sell off all my amp gear since im moving overseas, might scope out one of these when i can afford to invest in gear again. but probably still a bit outta my price range unless i find a good job quick (like thats gonna happen these days)

[JDC]

meshuggah plug their axefx's straight into PA systems

[Denim n Leather]

Counting the moments until Hunter arrives ...

[roland_rat]

lol I was just thinking the same as I was reading this!

[WezV]

yeah, we need someone to break the forum again so he cant see it!!

[AndyR]

Yeah... where is he?

Wakey wakey hunter! :D

[Twinfan]

Hunter to the Axe-FX phone please, Hunter to the Axe-FX phone........

[hunter]

Yeah, I'm here, sorry, bit busy, too many amazing tones on tap here to hang around in forums... :lol:

[Nadz1lla]

Haha! Proof that I need one of these! Amazing that Meshuggah just plug straight into the PA, I'd have thought they would be the kind of guys to use a power amp and cab. But then if they use the PA I have no excuse but to get one!  :D

[hunter]

Haha! Proof that I need one of these! Amazing that Meshuggah just plug straight into the PA, I'd have thought they would be the kind of guys to use a power amp and cab. But then if they use the PA I have no excuse but to get one!  :D

Plus Clawfinger. The guy from CF is a regular in the Axe FX forum and provides his own library of speaker IRs for free. You can upload up to 10 IRs in the Axe. By the way, I recorded a sweep of my 4x12 Bogner and sent it to him, the IR has become very popular amongst FRFR players now :O)

[Nolly]

I've listened to some of Bulb's and Nolly's clips and I think I have found the be all and end all of my home recording needs.

Hah, I guess you liked them then!

You can either get them from the sole EU distributor for €2000, or you can do what I did and order one within the states, fly over, and bring it back with you (though I was going there anyway so I don't count that as part of the cost). The unit itself cost me around £1300 that way.

As has been said, you can run them direct into PA or interface or whatever or into a power amp, be it a dedicated power amp, or just the power section of your head/combo. There are also other connecting possibilities such as the one I am looking into, where I run my Diezel's preamp through the power amp/cab modelling section of the axe-fx to great line-level tone to send to PA, while I still have the Diezel's power amp hooked up so that I can get onstage monitoring via my cab.

[Nadz1lla]

Yeah dude, totally liked them! Love the project you've got going with Bulb! Sounds as though this thing has a plethora of options for both live and home recording to take advantage of. Possibly one of the best innovations I've seen in a loooooong time.  :D

Oh, by the way, is it good to go out of the box or would I need to go fiddling around with setting up impulses etc? I'm afraid I am much the n00b at things like that and if it becomes too complicated I will not get the best out of it, essentially wasting a lot of money on a dumb-ass who can't work everthing needed to run it! I am assuming it already has cab modelers? May sound like a silly question, hehe. Feel free to give me a virtual slap!

[Nolly]

is it good to go out of the box or would I need to go fiddling around with setting up impulses etc? I'm afraid I am much the n00b at things like that and if it becomes too complicated I will not get the best out of it, essentially wasting a lot of money on a dumb-ass who can't work everthing needed to run it! I am assuming it already has cab modelers? May sound like a silly question, hehe. Feel free to give me a virtual slap!

It is set up with 350 or so factory presets, though as is usually the case with modelling stuff, the presets are often designed more to show off the potential of the unit than to generate usable tones. That said, generally just dialing back the seemingly omnipresent reverb and delay on the factory presets often makes them much more usable, and they are a good place to start if you want to try your hand at the tweaking options available to you.
On the other hand, creating and editing patches is very simple compared with other modellers I've used. It took me about 10 minutes to get oriented and to understand how things work, then it took me about 4 or 5 minutes to create the patch you hear on the Snuggles tracks, though we did add some presence and treble after hearing it in the mix for the first time.
It already has cabinet models, lots of them in fact, Hunter is pointing out that there is also the possibility of adding impulses you have downloaded elsewhere or even created yourself too.

[Johnny Mac]

Phroawrr! They do sound the bees knees.