the M13 has left the bldg....

[70strathead]

oh and for the record-

i tried the mxr carbon copy and the boss space echo pedal and the EH memory man with hazari, and the EH echo pedal. good but no cigar.

way huge swollen pickle. not my cup of tea.

boss blues driver....my fave of the night!

fender vibrolux. great amp, started loving it until it started making huge shorting out noise.

tried the super champ XD and really dug it for a practice amp vibe..

Pat i've been totally diggin the BOSS blue driver as of lately and ironically the replex. I blue driver through a vibrolux sounds killer as does through a JCM800. I wanna Vibrolux really bad!!

 

[mentoneman]

i'm still thinking eggie mod 50 with vox and COD modules for those platform vox and dumble tones, or a dumble type zendrive or ethos pedal on the fender, and turning the marshall into the Peacemaker!

eric johnson clean tone? done.

vh dirt? yep.

john sykes? easy.

landau? of course.

petrucci? piece o cake!

robben ford? why not?

and all accessible from the touch of a button on the foot controller.

i think the biggest challenge will be those earthy bluesy pedal into combo type tones...the hendrixy/burning water tones and srv tones...

They may sound similar but you'll never get the same dynamics and feel from them.

the main tone difference will be the gtr/pickup and speaker equations, but it'll be a tone so good that those limiting factors will be very diminished in the grand scheme of things. but i agree, sounding like their tones is one thing...playing like them is not as accesible!

 

[mentoneman]

oh and for the record-

i tried the mxr carbon copy and the boss space echo pedal and the EH memory man with hazari, and the EH echo pedal. good but no cigar.

way huge swollen pickle. not my cup of tea.

boss blues driver....my fave of the night!

fender vibrolux. great amp, started loving it until it started making huge shorting out noise.

tried the super champ XD and really dug it for a practice amp vibe..

Pat i've been totally diggin the BOSS blue driver as of lately and ironically the replex. I blue driver through a vibrolux sounds killer as does through a JCM800. I wanna Vibrolux really bad!!

great minds!

man after last night, i am painfully aware of how special the replex i had was in terms of sweet analog-like tonality and balance, with that great modulated decay!

and the vibrolux really seems to capture most of the fender magic, particularly with the jensen speaker air and the tone controls that let you dial in the bass and mids just right.

 

[Zachman]

brah all I am sure of is once you get this rig totally dialed in, there will be many rack converts on Oahu, and a general 90s rack renaissance! except that H8000 is definitely not 90s!!!!

there is no denying when standing in the sound field of this bad boy that the tone potential is of a caliber that few have actually honestly experienced, and that the appreciation of such a killer rig is involuntary.

and with the super reverb, marshall 30th anni, and mark III pulling amp chores you have the cores nailed.

i'm still thinking eggie mod 50 with vox and COD modules for those platform vox and dumble tones, or a dumble type zendrive or ethos pedal on the fender, and turning the marshall into the Peacemaker!

eric johnson clean tone? done.

vh dirt? yep.

john sykes? easy.

landau? of course.

petrucci? piece o cake!

robben ford? why not?

and all accessible from the touch of a button on the foot controller.

i think the biggest challenge will be those earthy bluesy pedal into combo type tones...the hendrixy/burning water tones and srv tones...

More fun w/ the H8000FW: The Roland Dimension D preset sounds KILLER, as do everything else in here!!!!

This thing is so ridiculously AMAZING, those who haven't indulged a test drive, simply can NOT fathom the lusciousness this thing provides. Last week, while test driving and programming the Axe-FX Ultra, I was pleasantly happy (As I knew I would be) with the sounds and tweakability of the Axe, and was seriously thinking it may be (in the effects department, a contender to replace the high priced Eventide flagship)--but after having spent some time now w/ the H8000FW-- I now know the Eventide is in a class ALL it's own, all by itself, and has no equal.

 

[strungup]

i tried to like it.

really i did.
so the bottom line is:

1) i know too much about the effects the m13 is modeling to accept their unreasonable facsimiles, imo

2) and i can't compromise my tone to the point where i lose inspiration and pride in my tone.


yanked it, and went back to:
tone press->bb preamp->arion chorus->eggie tol 100->send to gforce->out of gforce to eggie return->amp out to EV 1x12.

TONE.

next project: fletcher landau pickups

I read all the reviews and figured the m13 was the way to go as well. I even sold a bunch of pedals to force myself to learn the m13 and make it work..... bottom line is I am back to pedals. I gave it the best shot I could but it just wasn't me.