zone47
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I tried one and was pretty amazed with how good it sounded. I was playing through a Crown D150A power amp and some JBL cabaret pro 4628B cabs .... pretty good stuff. On the down side, it did have some kind of harsh clipping on a few of the patches and it wasn't anywhere near overdriving the input signal or the power amp. 
.... so I wasn't too happy about that. It's easy to tweek, but I couldn't get it to smooth out.
Anyway, after a week with this thing, I was pretty happy overall until I went back and A-B'd it with a marshall 2061x head and 4x12 cab. The Marshall just sounded a few notches better. There was something in the tone that was fuller and fatter than the Axe-fx could do. I even patched the Axe Fx through the same 4x12 cab to keep the comparison more even..... yep, the real tube amp has the Mojo.
I got rid of the Axe-Fx, but even so, it's an amazing piece considering it's all solid state. I hope they keep on developing it to the point where it is as good or better than a tube amp.... that would make things a bit easier especially for gigging.
Any Yays or Nays out there?
.... so I wasn't too happy about that. It's easy to tweek, but I couldn't get it to smooth out.Anyway, after a week with this thing, I was pretty happy overall until I went back and A-B'd it with a marshall 2061x head and 4x12 cab. The Marshall just sounded a few notches better. There was something in the tone that was fuller and fatter than the Axe-fx could do. I even patched the Axe Fx through the same 4x12 cab to keep the comparison more even..... yep, the real tube amp has the Mojo.
I got rid of the Axe-Fx, but even so, it's an amazing piece considering it's all solid state. I hope they keep on developing it to the point where it is as good or better than a tube amp.... that would make things a bit easier especially for gigging.
Any Yays or Nays out there?
