I struggled to get through Runnin with the Devil, only read the first chapter or so. As you said... a bit dark.
Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon sounds wild!
Tried making a delay pedal using the PCB kit from Jeds Peds (UK based). Turned out okay I think! Sprayed the chassis emerald green and added pink knobs. Just need to make labels for the controls. It's a pretty gnarly lo-fi delay, really fun to use, hard to tame.
The drum part in the Tears Are Falling chorus just makes it that much cooler. Eric Carr seemed like a really nice guy. "Who Wants To Be Lonely" is another song that I really love, the video is hillariously 80s.
Did you ever notice "Reason To Live" sounds like "I Wanna Know What Love Is"? haha
Huge respect for the band. Love reading books about the band. The lore is great!
Their non-make up era is extremely underrated. "Who wants to be lonely" and "my way" are special songs to me.
Hey! Thought I'd start a list of books that I've read that other Rigtalkers might enjoy. Please feel free to comment more suggestions and I'll add to the list :rock:
As Above So Below - Yngwie Unoffocial Biography - Audio, Book and eBook
Back To The Front - A Fully Authorised Visual History of...
In my head:
- 1940-1959 "Origins Era" early black blues, rock n roll, early electric guitar etc
- 1960-1979 "Classic Era" the rock sound is created
- 1980-1999 "Main Era" guitar is apart of everything from pop to rock, innovations in sounds
- 2000-2019 "Modern Era" tradition fades, extra...
Dave loves his power metal guitarists. Both Kiko and Teemu (the new guy) are from epic power metal bands. Kiko was amazing in Angra, worth checking out their early stuff, it's a bit musical theater but I like it! Timu plays in Wintersun who do basically hollywood level black metal haha.
Wonder...
This logic is why I went from the Ultra, to the Axe2 and then called it a day. Axe2 does all I need. To update would be a lateral step gear-wise, and a bad decision financially. Late stage corporate consumerism doing it's thing. I'm sure the top brass love the concept Fractal GAS haha
Always been surprised at how sloppy Slash and Axl are. Slash's "shredding" to me always sounds like a 13 year old me shredding pentatonic blue scales haha.
I have made up a repository of AxeFX Ultra Content and Archive patches etc
This folder contains as much legacy stuff as I could gather for the AxeFX Ultra. Hope it proves useful.
Software:
AxeEdit (latest beta for AxeFX Ultra)
Axeomatic
Axe-FxIRConverter
JoJos_Sysex_IR-Converter
AxeCabManager...
Firstly welcome to the Fractal world. Secondly... DIGITAL BAD, TUBE GOOD. Now we've got that out of the way...
As others have said, grab some great IRs are you're good to go. Defo download Axe Edit and play around. Check for firmware updates etc. Axe-Exchange is a great place for presets.
If...
Bring back Kevin Moore to replace Rudess, get Petrucci back on the Ibanez / Triaxis combo too and then I'll be interested. I'm also totally happy with bringing back the cheese, it gave it some bombast and character.