Educate me on the AxeTrak

[Anonymous]

I totally agree with you but its much to bulky for my condo!! Id even eat the price that they are asking for it !!

Understood me brudda... See ya next week!

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

I use it as a dummy load brother. It can handle about 75 watts. It wont handle a cranked plexi on 10 though. It works really well with the boogie.

Doh, I thought you meant it can do a load, not function as a semi quiet dummy. I get it...

Like "do a load" of laundry?

Steve

 

[tweed]

This:

= not "boxy sounding".

Steve

Sheet that looks expensive!

 

[Anonymous]

Sheet that looks expensive!

If you are handy, you could build one yourself on the cheap though...

Steve

 

[70strathead]

very cool Steve. I do something similar but instead of using an iso box, I have a nearby small closet in my studio that i sound proofed and leave a 4X12 in there with a ceiling mike and a close mik to speaker....works pretty good.

Cool! Based on the smokin' clips you have posted it is obvious you are getting some killer tones out of it!

Steve

thanks bro...if i didn't have the accomodations in my home, i would definitely go your route, especially when playing non-master volume heads.

 

[tweed]

Sheet that looks expensive!

If you are handy, you could build one yourself on the cheap though...

Steve

I am lol. Two questions, are there basic dimesions that work better than others for a 4x12 iso cab and where do you get the big sheets of foam?

 

[Gainfreak]

I use it as a dummy load brother. It can handle about 75 watts. It wont handle a cranked plexi on 10 though. It works really well with the boogie.

Doh, I thought you meant it can do a load, not function as a semi quiet dummy. I get it...

 

[Chubtone]

very cool Steve. I do something similar but instead of using an iso box, I have a nearby small closet in my studio that i sound proofed and leave a 4X12 in there with a ceiling mike and a close mik to speaker....works pretty good.

Exactly what I do Ant. But what I did in my closet is bought an Auralex amp isolator stand that isolates the cabinet from the floor so the sound doesn't bleed downstairs as much. Then I built a framework of 2x4's around the cabinet and once the mic is in position I drape 8 moving blankets over the framework that go down to the floor. I can barely hear the cabinet in my recording room and all I hear is the mic'd amp through the monitors.

It works pretty well.

 

[Gainfreak]

very cool Steve. I do something similar but instead of using an iso box, I have a nearby small closet in my studio that i sound proofed and leave a 4X12 in there with a ceiling mike and a close mik to speaker....works pretty good.

Exactly what I do Ant. But what I did in my closet is bought an Auralex amp isolator stand that isolates the cabinet from the floor so the sound doesn't bleed downstairs as much. Then I built a framework of 2x4's around the cabinet and once the mic is in position I drape 8 moving blankets over the framework that go down to the floor. I can barely hear the cabinet in my recording room and all I hear is the mic'd amp through the monitors.

It works pretty well.

 

[Anonymous]

Sheet that looks expensive!

If you are handy, you could build one yourself on the cheap though...

Steve

I am lol. Two questions, are there basic dimesions that work better than others for a 4x12 iso cab and where do you get the big sheets of foam?

Mine is 37"H X 36.5"W X 30.5"D which seems to work real well with a 4x12... As to the sound insulating foam material, I'm sure you can find it with a quick search online...

Steve

 

[Anonymous]

very cool Steve. I do something similar but instead of using an iso box, I have a nearby small closet in my studio that i sound proofed and leave a 4X12 in there with a ceiling mike and a close mik to speaker....works pretty good.

Exactly what I do Ant. But what I did in my closet is bought an Auralex amp isolator stand that isolates the cabinet from the floor so the sound doesn't bleed downstairs as much. Then I built a framework of 2x4's around the cabinet and once the mic is in position I drape 8 moving blankets over the framework that go down to the floor. I can barely hear the cabinet in my recording room and all I hear is the mic'd amp through the monitors.

It works pretty well.

If you can barely hear the amp in the control room (I'm assuming cranked non-master volume), I'd say it works REALLY well!

Steve

 

[tweed]

I am lol. Two questions, are there basic dimesions that work better than others for a 4x12 iso cab and where do you get the big sheets of foam?

Mine is 37"H X 36.5"W X 30.5"D which seems to work real well with a 4x12... As to the sound insulating foam material, I'm sure you can find it with a quick search online...

Steve[/quote]

Thanks Steve. The foam, she is not cheap.

 

[70strathead]

very cool Steve. I do something similar but instead of using an iso box, I have a nearby small closet in my studio that i sound proofed and leave a 4X12 in there with a ceiling mike and a close mik to speaker....works pretty good.

Exactly what I do Ant. But what I did in my closet is bought an Auralex amp isolator stand that isolates the cabinet from the floor so the sound doesn't bleed downstairs as much. Then I built a framework of 2x4's around the cabinet and once the mic is in position I drape 8 moving blankets over the framework that go down to the floor. I can barely hear the cabinet in my recording room and all I hear is the mic'd amp through the monitors.

It works pretty well.

good idea!

 

[daver101]

I have one of the original axetrax that I'm selling.