Thanks, yeah bottom end is a bit thin, but it helps in context with a bass, keyboards and another guitar I guess, will see Monday in rehearsal.
The intention is to get sounds that I use FRFR in a live situation. I won't be using the poweramp/guitarcab, but rather running through a FBT Verve12MA fullrange monitor - which is like my big balls guitar combo at the moment. It really gives that 4x12 thump while offering enough neutral response to be able to use different sounding cab IRs for different tones. It has coax design so doesn't offer many of the disadvantages of a "normal" 12"/2 monitor, and it has a quite equal spread of 120° which is much more than any rig I played before.
I have done 2 rehearsals with it and it was great, incl. compliments from the band members and wondering faces when they saw the size of the box as opposed to the amount of noise it makes :O)
My aim is to get rid of big rigs and rather have a small, very versatile, consistent package. Like this I can play the same setup with the metal band as with the cover band, get convincing clean, crunch, rock and metal sounds incl. the individual matching cab and even run acoustic and electric through the same rig (it being FRFR).
Biggest trouble I have is dialing in the metal part of it - but that's always been my weakness, I think since I heard "Holy Diver" for the first time, I wanted certain sounds and never got them, so for about 22 years...arghhh.
Well I think the 5150/reworked can be a good starting point to tweak from. Used a different cab and mic mix for that and that makes all the difference I suppose.
I've definately been looking at the 12ma myself recently, as I have returned to the modeller route of tone-generation, despite mine being a relative "toy" compared to the Axe..
I am getting sounds I really like with the band. In fact last night's rehearsal was very good for "tone". My sounds were cutting through amazingly. So much so that, initially, some of the other band members were moaning at me for being too loud, even though I was significantly quieter that I usually am at rehearsals. From where I was standing, the tones sat awesomely in the mix, but on their own sounded pretty rough really, with little bottom end and little top end. It constantly amazes me how the electric guitar takes up such a small frequency range in a band mix. If you can find that range and get the frequency balance right, just in that small range, then all will be good.
Also, with guitar speakers, (espec greenbacks) I always find that the frequency range they put out is greatly affected by volume, with the higher the volume giving a more restricted frequency range.
ANyway, back to the 12ma .... I am liking my "guitar cab with greenbacks" rig well, but the typical laser beam tone effect is there, and it only sounds great on a very small range of angles. I'd love to have a cab which firstly gives a much wider spread of sound (without being open-backed), and secondly, which puts out approximately the same frequencies whatever the volume.
Is the 12ma really all some folks claim it to be ? Have you tried the Axe with other reasonable quality active monitors ? IS there a huge difference ?
Realistically, I could just about afford one, if I sold both my amps, and both my cabs. So it would be a big commitment, but it is do-able. I'm very nervous about doing that though. I did try my GSP through a Samson 612M active monitor, and I didn't like it greatly. My problem is not at home (or even at church) levels but when rehearsing or gigging with the band.
Hmmm. Decisions, decisions.
.....sorry for the rambling post. :oops:
