cathodebias
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I play some small gigs in small bars, pubs, lounges etc, and have always used small-medium tube amps, mostly a 5E3, a (heavily modded by me) Blues Jr, or if the room is bigger, a tweed bandmaster clone (Clark Tyger). These are plenty loud enough, and we never mic an amp in these small gigs. I drag along a Fender Reverb unit (65), strobostomp tuner, and a DIY trem pedal.
I recently bought myself a new Axe-FX II XL+, and I've been working with it and figuring it out at home. I've got some nice blues presets dialed in, and am using a small 6-button MIDI pedal with display (MC6) that I can do everything with, including use the AFX tuner. The AFX output goes to a small powered monitor (EV ZLX-12P, 34 lbs). Sounds damn good, and is plenty loud.
I'm thinking this would be a cool setup to use in the small gigs. Am I nuts? Anyone else using a modeler at small gigs?
It will give me a wide range of tones to suit the tunes, with all effects ( trem, reverb, drive, eq, and maybe a rotary) and several amp flavor in one (phantom powered) small pedal. It would def save wear and tear on my vintage amps, and I don't think tone would suffer, no. Maybe my image, lol!
I recently bought myself a new Axe-FX II XL+, and I've been working with it and figuring it out at home. I've got some nice blues presets dialed in, and am using a small 6-button MIDI pedal with display (MC6) that I can do everything with, including use the AFX tuner. The AFX output goes to a small powered monitor (EV ZLX-12P, 34 lbs). Sounds damn good, and is plenty loud.
I'm thinking this would be a cool setup to use in the small gigs. Am I nuts? Anyone else using a modeler at small gigs?
It will give me a wide range of tones to suit the tunes, with all effects ( trem, reverb, drive, eq, and maybe a rotary) and several amp flavor in one (phantom powered) small pedal. It would def save wear and tear on my vintage amps, and I don't think tone would suffer, no. Maybe my image, lol!