Muad'zin
Refugee
New Stuff Day
A long held wish of mine has finally become true. I finally have the Rolls Royce/Ferrari of digital modellers, the Fractal Axe-FX. I've been selling stuff left and right, would have sold all my blood if I could and my children if I had them to afford one. I still have to sell some guitars (anyone want a 90's Gibson Explorer) and pedals but today, €3700 poorer (damn you exchange rate!!!), that glorious day has finally arrived.
I wanna make sweet digital love with this baby!
Of course, every digital modeler needs a midi controller in order to change presets. Enter the MFC-101:
Complimentary box of chocolates. Never had one of those before.
300 pages worth of printed manuals for the both of them. Should be no problem to master, right?
Does this mean that I have sold my analog soul to the digital devil? Probably. And probably not. I do love my old stompboxes. I do love to tinker with them in rehearsal and conjure up new sounds. I can do that with the Axe-FX too, but then again twisting simple knobs and switches will always trump digital menus for spur of the moment creativity in my opinion. It's just that I hate having to change knobs and settings during a live show. Presets for the win in that regard. So the master plan is to keep on using ye olde pedalboard for rehearsal, for creating new sounds and writing new songs. And probably some close by live gigs where there is plenty of time for changeovers. And use the Axe-FX for most live situations that require quick changeovers and/or long distance travel.
What it now sort of replaces, a recent (but not the most recent) pic of my pedal board.
A long held wish of mine has finally become true. I finally have the Rolls Royce/Ferrari of digital modellers, the Fractal Axe-FX. I've been selling stuff left and right, would have sold all my blood if I could and my children if I had them to afford one. I still have to sell some guitars (anyone want a 90's Gibson Explorer) and pedals but today, €3700 poorer (damn you exchange rate!!!), that glorious day has finally arrived.
I wanna make sweet digital love with this baby!
Of course, every digital modeler needs a midi controller in order to change presets. Enter the MFC-101:
Complimentary box of chocolates. Never had one of those before.
300 pages worth of printed manuals for the both of them. Should be no problem to master, right?
Does this mean that I have sold my analog soul to the digital devil? Probably. And probably not. I do love my old stompboxes. I do love to tinker with them in rehearsal and conjure up new sounds. I can do that with the Axe-FX too, but then again twisting simple knobs and switches will always trump digital menus for spur of the moment creativity in my opinion. It's just that I hate having to change knobs and settings during a live show. Presets for the win in that regard. So the master plan is to keep on using ye olde pedalboard for rehearsal, for creating new sounds and writing new songs. And probably some close by live gigs where there is plenty of time for changeovers. And use the Axe-FX for most live situations that require quick changeovers and/or long distance travel.
What it now sort of replaces, a recent (but not the most recent) pic of my pedal board.