Mindseyes

That's killer!

Hate to hear about you guys having problems!!! I have never used this stuff but it may help when yall's finger tips are giving yall problems http://rock-tips.com/

X-ray FTW

I dig that!! Reminds me of Seal, I like Seal.

I use to live by the it's got to sound good unplugged to sound good threw a amp but my PRS Modern Eagle from the original run kIlled that one for me. That guitar sounds rather dull unplugged but plugged in its just amazing!!!

Hope everything works out!!!

So lets get this straight, 20 minutes or so after you put the guitar up it falls? Sorry but if you would have put it up "wrong" it would have fell almost immediately, the fact that they have had guitars fall all by them self's is the clincher here. They need better wall hangers, period! These come to mind, pretty much idiot proof http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=hercules+guitar+hangers&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=2974874873407073677&sa=X&ei=ogOcT8LCLYLc2gXhu7DzDg&ved=0CJwBEPICMAQ

Katy perry songs.....Girls for the most part love her songs

Thanks for the input guys! This was actually for my other guitar player, we messed around with his board today and got it sounding pretty good with the boost knob on his Maxon compressor, he's running a 30' to his board from a racked wireless and then another 30' back to the amp and was missing some gain on his drive tones, juicing it with the comp. has seemed to make him happy once again.

Thanks J!!

Hey guys whats out there to help combat signal loss over long cable runs? Do I need something like the vht valvulator? Thanks for looking!!

The most "balanced" acoustic that I have ever played was a I think early 90's 610, I think that was the model # Quilted maple back and sides, I kick myself almost daily for letting that one go.....

this is one of the reasons i like the tonelab over the axe-fx i had. tonelabs use a 12ax7 to simulate the power section of a tube amp; it "felt more real" than the axe-fx. #2 reason was that i liked the basic clean & crunch tones better (i don't use much effects). i also compared a rack carvin SS amp to just the power section of my crate powerblock (bypassing the powerblock's preamp via the rca jacks in back); i could not tell the difference at all between the class D SS amp (powerblock) and whatever class of poweramp the carvin is. later i compared the powerblock to stikes peavey 60w all tube poweramp. there was a slight difference in the high end (the peavey was slightly softer sounding), but it was very very subtle (my blind bassist couldn't tell the difference, and i probalby wouldn't have been able to tell except that i was switching the cables from one to the other). the peavey was 2 or 3 rack unit sized and weighed a ton. so, thats how i ended up w/ such a ghetto rig. yes, i am cheap! but i honestly set out to have a state of the art axe-fx system, but my ears (and my back) led me to this; this is my rig for the rush tribute, but when i jam covers w/ wizard sleeves i just use the tonelab, powerblock, and a cab; everything but my guitar and cab fits in a medium duffle bag (tonelab/powerblock/cables/folding guitar stand), weighs maybe 20lbs. the other thing that always seems to come up in these tube/modeler threads is folks totally dismissing one for the other, which i don't get. you can have a modeling rig AND a tube rig, they are just tools. you don't have to swear alleigence to just one. I love your ghetto rig!!!! And I totally agree with your last statement, I honestly just love gear be it tube or SS......they are all tool's, its a great time to be a guitar player with all the neat stuff that's out there. Im so happy I found a light weight rig that makes me happy without feeling like im compromising some part of the tones I like because I just spent a SHIT TON of money on back surgery to fix myself and I dont plan on throwing that away hauling 300 lbs of gear to gig every weekend.

I looked at it from the "its to much $" point of view for a while also until I started adding up the cost of all the pedals and other stuff that ive bought and sold most of the time losing cash over the years, at this point I could sell the AxeII rig for what I have in it or more and I cant say that about any other of the gear ive bought. I run mine with the MFC-101 set up like a pedal board with delay, flange, Etc. for the most part but I also have patches were I have a ton of stuff going on or off with one footswitch, being able to stop the "tap dancing" was a HUGE selling point for me. I was like a bunch of you guy for a long time when it came to my tube amp and pedals and after trying all the line 6 stuff and other modelers over the years I was pretty sure I would hate the damn thing but it worked for me, it gives me a better tone than my real amp and the most important thing to me was the feel was just right.....Thats why I hated everything else i had tried until the AxeII, I could get a sound I was cool with but the feel was all wrong. It also play's nice with other tube amps, my other guitar player plays a Mesa Recto and on the 10 or so gig's ive done with the AxeII I never felt like I was getting buried or had any trouble cutting threw the live mix, on one of my last gigs with it we opened for 3 Doors Down and the touring sound guy found me after the set to drill me about what I was doing because he really liked to tones I was getting, that was a big confidence booster in what I was doing!! I think there is a big misconception on the WWW that the AxeII is super hard to program and get good tones out of and maybe that was true about the Ultra and Standard(never owned either) but I have never took more than 10 min. setting up any of my patches and most of them I have done right on the box it's self YMMV of course but that has been my experience with it I am not trying to change anyone's mind on these things, Im just sharing how it has worked for me for what I do. At this point the only thing I miss about my "real" amp is the look, because a half stack just looks COOL!!!!!

The first day I had my AxeII I was running it with the VHT and a set up a AB-Y switch to switch between my recto and the Axe, within about 10-15 min. I had it dialed in damn near exact to my recto, my other guitar player and band could not tell the difference in blind taste test, I set my other guitar player up and let him play while I switched between the two and he couldn't tell them apart with sound and feel. You would probably really like it running it with a tube power amp and cab, for me with the latest FW the sound and fill has gotten so good that I don't feel like i need the power amp and cab......and that's a good thing for my back!

Think hard before deciding. The Mesa got you through a decade of gigging/recording. It can't possibly do what the Axe-FX is capable of replicating. But, it is a great tube amp, so, if I were in your shoes, I would keep both. If selling is a financial consideration, then do what you have to do. You never know, the day might come when the Boogie would come in handy and it's gone. Solid points bro.......the thing for me is that black box actually nails the recto tones better and more consistent than my actual recto. The other thing for me to keep in mind is I just had back surgery and am having great luck in my recovery so I kinda want to get away from the weight of all the old gear I've been hauling around for years Glad to see there are some others here that are embracing the new tech that out right now.......It's a good time for us guitar players!!

I got my first Fractal product a AxeFxII last July and have totally loved every min. with it. I gigged it up until December when I had back surgery with a VHT poweramp running into a Mesa Boogie 4-12 and was very pleased with what I was getting out of it. I really like how it allowed me to get mt stage volume way down because I was sending a line out to FOH and then bringing the cab volume up just a little to fill out my monitor mix, every sound guy was very pleased with what I was doing. Since back surgery I have been playing the AxeII threw a RCF NX 12-SMA powered monitor and am just blown away with this setup, this rig is super light and can get plenty loud without it falling apart. Now that im starting to recover from surgery and starting to play guitar more I thought it would be fun to plug into my "real" amp the other day because it had been months since I had last done it....I have been playing my Mesa Boogie Rectifier for nearly 10 years now and I love that amp, I MEAN LOVE IT, it has worked so well for what I do that I rarely even tried other amps anymore....so I get out the pedal board and plug in Ahh the glow of tubes.....hit the standby switch.....HATE IT!!!! I messed around with it for around a half hour before turning it off, I cant believe it but I have lost my love for my tube amp.....no mater how I set the dials I could not get a tone that sounded near as good as what im getting out my AxeFxII! All this has me thinking hard about getting rid of my "real" amp and was wondering if any of you guys have done the same?

THIS^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks Steve for putting to words what couldn't

This is gonna be my favorite year for music because after the Dr releases me from my back surgery Im gonna get in the van and go play my ass off for anyone who will listen, and thats what makes for great music to me! Cred is a funny term, why does someone need it to make music?

That's awesome, congrats Kevin !!!

I had been using visual sound one spot's for the last 5-6 years with no problems then one day out of no were BUZZZZZZZZ. I started out by changing out all my patch cords and that didn't stop the noise, thats when I started trying different power supply's and found the Flatliner. To this day I still dont know why I started having problems with the one spot's because they had worked flawlessly for so long......weird

2 of them......that would weigh almost as much as a amp......LoL Im actually hoping to get a MFC101 one day for my AxeFxII and do away with a "standard" pedal board. Right now Im using the L6 HD500 as a controller for it and just have not had the time to figure out all the MIDI BS to program stomp switches.....I really look forward to the day when I only have to run one cable out to FOS!

http://www.burkey.nl/flatliner%20engels.htm Flatliner has one also that is 9 or 12VAC, capacity 1000 mA As you can see in the pic I posted the thing is HUGE and heavy but is was the only power supply that I could find that would run my L6 DL4 and EH pedal quietly, everything else I tried I would get loud buzzzzzzing.......YMMV of course.........I was patient and found one used, it was still pretty costly but worth every penny to me so far, I really dont see me ever needing another power supply.

Expensive, yes but the Burkey Flatliner Pro I picked up a while back fixed all the problems with noise I was having that other so called pro power supply's would not......the last power supply I will ever buy because I could prolly power a oven and cook pizza while up on stage with it!! if you are only needing to run a few things i hear really good things about the fuel tank Jr

Played it at rehearsal tonight with the band threw a VHT 2/50/2 into a Tone Tubby loaded Mesa Boogie Recto 4X12 and all I got's to say is WOW!!!!! Even my other guitar player who hates anything new said it was the first "modeler" that he's played that responded like a real tube amp<-------That really surprised me coming from him!!! Every other modeler I have tried has just fallen apart in the mix when I got them in with the band but the AXII just sat in the mix right were I wanted it to......Impressed I am! I did something just for fun before everyone got to my place for practice, I ran my recto into half my cab and the AxeII into the other half with a ABY switch to switch between the two I be damned that after about 5-10 min. of tweaking I had a tone that was just about identical to the recto coming out of the AxeII, when my guitar player buddy got here I played a little game of guess the real amp and he was just shocked at the tone I had coming out of this little 1's and 0's box. I havent spent much time building clean tones so the few songs were I use clean sounds left me a little disappointed but im pretty sure I can get something useable out of it, to be fair we only have two songs were I use a clean tone so it just has not been a priority at this time to work on them... I have a gig in a few weeks so I guess that will be the final test for this thing for me but as of now Im really enjoying the heck out of it .......