Congrats! I hope it is everything and more of what you are looking for. I sense you will love it!!
Digital Modelers
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Congrats! I hope it is everything and more of what you are looking for. I sense you will love it!!
My tubes stay at home most of the time because I value my back and once the front of house engineer gets the signal, everything sounds pretty much the same.
So for me, I pick the modeler that fits the gig. I've got a little mustang 2 for jamming, I started life with the Roland GP100 and also have a boss gt10. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses.
If I was choosing a do everything without an amp on stage, today, I would probably choose the boss GT 1000. Very high quality sounds, just about any routing you can imagine and I understand that the "cocked wah" tone that haunted the early GT series has been fixed.
Other than the convenience, the other thing I love about models is creating sounds I had always imagined. I have an external pedal for my boss modelers so I can dedicate the built-in pedal for volume and use the external pedal for a really wonderful mix of clean and crunch.
With the pedal at zero, I've got a classic black face with reverb. As the pedal moves forward the preamp goes up, the master volume comes down and about halfway through a clean marshall plexi starts to mix in. From that point on the fender fades out and the Marshall gain goes up as its master volume goes down.
It does exactly what you think. It gives me just about every sound possible across the 127 data points
it starts out hyper clean and ends up ridiculously crunched. The great thing is I can walk into almost any gig in almost any room and find a tone that will work somewhere in the middle of that pedal.
And then I go home to my Spawn Street Rod with absolutely no effects
So for me, I pick the modeler that fits the gig. I've got a little mustang 2 for jamming, I started life with the Roland GP100 and also have a boss gt10. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses.
If I was choosing a do everything without an amp on stage, today, I would probably choose the boss GT 1000. Very high quality sounds, just about any routing you can imagine and I understand that the "cocked wah" tone that haunted the early GT series has been fixed.
Other than the convenience, the other thing I love about models is creating sounds I had always imagined. I have an external pedal for my boss modelers so I can dedicate the built-in pedal for volume and use the external pedal for a really wonderful mix of clean and crunch.
With the pedal at zero, I've got a classic black face with reverb. As the pedal moves forward the preamp goes up, the master volume comes down and about halfway through a clean marshall plexi starts to mix in. From that point on the fender fades out and the Marshall gain goes up as its master volume goes down.
It does exactly what you think. It gives me just about every sound possible across the 127 data points
it starts out hyper clean and ends up ridiculously crunched. The great thing is I can walk into almost any gig in almost any room and find a tone that will work somewhere in the middle of that pedal.And then I go home to my Spawn Street Rod with absolutely no effects
Gtrjunior
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My tubes stay at home most of the time because I value my back and once the front of house engineer gets the signal, everything sounds pretty much the same.
So for me, I pick the modeler that fits the gig. I've got a little mustang 2 for jamming, I started life with the Roland GP100 and also have a boss gt10. All of them have their strengths and weaknesses.
If I was choosing a do everything without an amp on stage, today, I would probably choose the boss GT 1000. Very high quality sounds, just about any routing you can imagine and I understand that the "cocked wah" tone that haunted the early GT series has been fixed.
Other than the convenience, the other thing I love about models is creating sounds I had always imagined. I have an external pedal for my boss modelers so I can dedicate the built-in pedal for volume and use the external pedal for a really wonderful mix of clean and crunch.
With the pedal at zero, I've got a classic black face with reverb. As the pedal moves forward the preamp goes up, the master volume comes down and about halfway through a clean marshall plexi starts to mix in. From that point on the fender fades out and the Marshall gain goes up as its master volume goes down.
It does exactly what you think. It gives me just about every sound possible across the 127 data points
And then I go home to my Spawn Street Rod with absolutely no effects
Very Interesting! I like that idea.
I used a GP-100 for years direct to the board. A few years ago, I bought another one due to nostalgia. I had saved all of my sounds, and they loaded right up. But it didn't last long. What was great for 1995 isn't so good for 2021.
I had that too, bought new in 1996(?). I used it with an ADA MP-1 in 4cm. When I wanted to record direct, I used an ADA Microcab II.
In retrospect, those tones probably not far off from what we get today.
The GP100, I think I had it for 10 years+. The effects were perfectly fine and afaik, it was the only processor that could do 4cm and midi switch other devices back then.
Did you get it?
devastone
New member
Check the date on his post, he just ordered it 2 days ago.
He ordered it the same day I ordered my G11 from Sweetwater, and mine has arrived. I figured there was a good chance he lived closer to Indiana.
devastone
New member
Gotcha
PFDarkside
of the Forum
Nice! Enjoy!
I’m looking at my gear stash figuring out what I could move for some Fractal gear. Budget has been taken up by this Warmoth build.
Gtrjunior
New member
I hear that!
The only reason I pulled the trigger is because I’m getting a nice tax return back this year.
I was originally going to spend it on some new windows for my house. But it was good enough that I could get the windows AND treat myself to the Kemper.
misterwhizzy
Well-known member
Now that I know you live in Fort Wayne, I think it's a shame you would ever consider digital with glassman living in your backyard. It's a shame he seems to have left the forum. Great, great guy, and a very knowledgeable tube amp guru. That being said, enjoy your gear.
PFDarkside
of the Forum
I might need to PM you... this whole time I thought you had the rack Axe Fx. How is the FM3 for what you do, do you miss out on the full sized Axe Fx 3? Even adding a FC6 and expression gives a lot of flexibility for the FM3, do you use other controllers?
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!!!
I'm glad this has arrived, but... if someone signed for it, why is it still sitting on the front porch?
Hopefully it is still there when you get home.
I want to get away from carrying a lot of stuff, so I just use the FM3. I intended to use my Behringer FCB1010 with it, but found out I don't need it. Just the FM3 and an expression pedal. I just had to figure out the weird way they use the 3 buttons. It is a very smart, but unconventional design- you have to get away from the "1 switch for 1 function" idea.
The Axe3 was never on my radar. My patches aren't that complex (I can't imagine a scenario where I want 2 amps at once, since I never did that with conventional amps), and I never run out of processing power on the FM3.
