AX2 Help
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I'm not sure you can control (2) AX2-212"s with one controller, I know you can control (2) Vetta's. I have 3 AX2-212's (one needs work and is currently acting as a 2x12 cab.), and I have a Vetta II. I just love these things.
I bought my 1st one in 1997 and haven't stopped. Has anyone actually heard the Spider Valve amp? A good friend has the latest Hughes and Kettner "Switchblade", it has a tube amp with all on-board effects plus an actual real reverb unit. But it's quite a lot of bread.
I'm not sure you can control (2) AX2-212"s with one controller, I know you can control (2) Vetta's. I have 3 AX2-212's (one needs work and is currently acting as a 2x12 cab.), and I have a Vetta II. I just love these things.
I bought my 1st one in 1997 and haven't stopped. Has anyone actually heard the Spider Valve amp? A good friend has the latest Hughes and Kettner "Switchblade", it has a tube amp with all on-board effects plus an actual real reverb unit. But it's quite a lot of bread.
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
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That's what I do most of the time. I don't usually two different models at the same time. I pretty much keep them set almost the same except that I'll run one rather dry with less gain than the other one. You can control both of them with one controller.I'm trying to make a deal on a second one.I want to try controlling the second one via MIDI so I can run 2 models at the same time...
Dr.Mavashi
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pinto79
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I solidified the deal and I'm going to pick it up on Sunday. How do you run the two together? I was planning to use a MIDI Cable... is there another/better way?
I solidified the deal and I'm going to pick it up on Sunday. How do you run the two together? I was planning to use a MIDI Cable... is there another/better way?
pinto79
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Do you have to split the guitar signal and run a cable to each amp too? I don't think the midi port transports the audio...
Thanks for the insight!
Do you have to split the guitar signal and run a cable to each amp too? I don't think the midi port transports the audio...
Thanks for the insight!
pinto79
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Dr.Mavashi
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Yes its true, a true metaller with roots in the 80s should be ashamed of using/owning/praising anything by Line6. Line6 is weapon of mass tone distraction, it has misguided the entire generation into tone deffness. Line6 is the face of evil in the world of guitar amplification it is to guitar amps what is communism to freedom. Tubesters UNITE !!!
Yes its true, a true metaller with roots in the 80s should be ashamed of using/owning/praising anything by Line6. Line6 is weapon of mass tone distraction, it has misguided the entire generation into tone deffness. Line6 is the face of evil in the world of guitar amplification it is to guitar amps what is communism to freedom. Tubesters UNITE !!!
pinto79
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Wow... that's pretty deep. Your words however are clearly those of someone who has never spent any amount of real time with an AX2. The original AxSys and the AX2 are still by far the best sounding products Line6 ever produced.
I have owned a Marshall JMP Master Volume (2204) and 4 JCM800 (3 50 watt and a 100 Watt) Amplifiers in my time as a guitar player in addition to a Marshall JMP-1 Tube Preamp and currently a Hughes & Kettner Attax Tube Preamp running through a Peavey Classic 50/50 Tube Power Amp, so I know a bit about tube tone, and the AX2, especially being used as a Preamp into the 50/50 has all the feel and bounce of the best tube amps I have ever played. It reacts beautifully to finger movements and sounds un-deniably alive. It may not be EXACTLY like a tube amp, but I don't ever feel that my tone has been compromised because of it's "Digital-ness". Have a good listen to Jolly's recorded clips. They are tonally amazing and lack nothing as far as my ears can tell.
Keep in mind that a huge amount of the tone in the 80s was driven by digital gear in an age where computing power was nowhere close to what it is today, or even what it was in 1995-6 when the AxSys/AX2 were first introduced.
I don't mean this as an attack on you, just a clarification.
Wow... that's pretty deep. Your words however are clearly those of someone who has never spent any amount of real time with an AX2. The original AxSys and the AX2 are still by far the best sounding products Line6 ever produced.
I have owned a Marshall JMP Master Volume (2204) and 4 JCM800 (3 50 watt and a 100 Watt) Amplifiers in my time as a guitar player in addition to a Marshall JMP-1 Tube Preamp and currently a Hughes & Kettner Attax Tube Preamp running through a Peavey Classic 50/50 Tube Power Amp, so I know a bit about tube tone, and the AX2, especially being used as a Preamp into the 50/50 has all the feel and bounce of the best tube amps I have ever played. It reacts beautifully to finger movements and sounds un-deniably alive. It may not be EXACTLY like a tube amp, but I don't ever feel that my tone has been compromised because of it's "Digital-ness". Have a good listen to Jolly's recorded clips. They are tonally amazing and lack nothing as far as my ears can tell.
Keep in mind that a huge amount of the tone in the 80s was driven by digital gear in an age where computing power was nowhere close to what it is today, or even what it was in 1995-6 when the AxSys/AX2 were first introduced.
I don't mean this as an attack on you, just a clarification.
Dr.Mavashi
neonderthalotonalogist
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I've listened to JOLLY's stuff, he rocks, he has real balls in his playing. But I gave up on caring or guessing what is used on the recording today. It can be fantastic I agree, but that digital stuff simply wont be able to repeat it live, cut through, hold up when cranked, etc. My 80s influences were all tube - YJM, George Lynch(yeah, yeah, randall I know, what made me decide to do this for the rest of my life was Back for the Attack and beast from the East and its all very plexish) Criss Oliva of Savatage(Laney AOR) Randy Rhoads, Scorpions, Accept.
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I can understand where you're coming from, I know guys, that if it's not vintage, they're not interested. Yours is tube amps. If I were playing out anymore, I would probably use a tuber, At home in my basement, I get SO many different sounds from an AX2 or my Vetta. I have tube amps as well, I have a Hughes and Kettner Tri-amp combo, a Laney PT30MV, a Vox AC-30, Fender Blues jr and a Peavey Classic 50 4x10. No I don't have Mesa (I've owned 3-they don't work well at home-sound great on stage) I love tube amps, I also love the versatility of a Line 6. I'm not trying to change your mind, just explain why I use them. I know I lose a little tone-wise, but honestly I can't use the volume required to get that tone anyway. Thanks
I can understand where you're coming from, I know guys, that if it's not vintage, they're not interested. Yours is tube amps. If I were playing out anymore, I would probably use a tuber, At home in my basement, I get SO many different sounds from an AX2 or my Vetta. I have tube amps as well, I have a Hughes and Kettner Tri-amp combo, a Laney PT30MV, a Vox AC-30, Fender Blues jr and a Peavey Classic 50 4x10. No I don't have Mesa (I've owned 3-they don't work well at home-sound great on stage) I love tube amps, I also love the versatility of a Line 6. I'm not trying to change your mind, just explain why I use them. I know I lose a little tone-wise, but honestly I can't use the volume required to get that tone anyway. Thanks
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
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No, just one guitar cable. Just take the one that you have your floorboard plugged into and run from the midi out into the midi in of the other amp.
JOLLY
Super Simonologist
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I'm an idiot. I just remembered that you have to have an ABY channel switcher pedal. :doh: You plug from your guitar into the pedal and then two cables out to your amps. Here's what I always used and it works perfect.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Morley-ABY-Channel-Switcher?sku=150757
I'm an idiot. I just remembered that you have to have an ABY channel switcher pedal. :doh: You plug from your guitar into the pedal and then two cables out to your amps. Here's what I always used and it works perfect.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Morley-ABY-Channel-Switcher?sku=150757
