jrjones
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Guys, I've been super busy playing and working so I haven't been able to get into many conversations, but I wanted to share this.
Last summer my wife an I had some medical bills pile up. I was pretty anti-modeling. A friend was telling me about the axe-fx ultra, I had web listening to mark day and a couple other guys and decided to pay the bills I'd sell amps and pedals, go to an ultra and pay said bills. So, I've been working on sounds and the last month I've been playing a whole lot. I was all into "dual amp" patches and recently simplified to one amp and have been really digging it. The plexi especially.
A guy called me Wednesday a week and a half ago and said "hey I need a guitar player at church Sunday night can you help me" so I did. I ha played about half the songs before (out of 10). So I show up we play, goes really well, and afterward I'm talking to the bass player who also plays with different guys regularly and he said "ya know, I play with a bunch of different guitar players. They show up with huge pedalboards and tube amps, then I play with you, you bring a small rack, a controller and your tone is every bit as good as any of them." I took that as a massive compliment. Have I "arrived" for my tone? Nah. But I'm really getting some killer tones out of this box AND my back never hurts after carrying my whole rig in one trip (which was impossible before going to the axe-fx).
Last summer my wife an I had some medical bills pile up. I was pretty anti-modeling. A friend was telling me about the axe-fx ultra, I had web listening to mark day and a couple other guys and decided to pay the bills I'd sell amps and pedals, go to an ultra and pay said bills. So, I've been working on sounds and the last month I've been playing a whole lot. I was all into "dual amp" patches and recently simplified to one amp and have been really digging it. The plexi especially.
A guy called me Wednesday a week and a half ago and said "hey I need a guitar player at church Sunday night can you help me" so I did. I ha played about half the songs before (out of 10). So I show up we play, goes really well, and afterward I'm talking to the bass player who also plays with different guys regularly and he said "ya know, I play with a bunch of different guitar players. They show up with huge pedalboards and tube amps, then I play with you, you bring a small rack, a controller and your tone is every bit as good as any of them." I took that as a massive compliment. Have I "arrived" for my tone? Nah. But I'm really getting some killer tones out of this box AND my back never hurts after carrying my whole rig in one trip (which was impossible before going to the axe-fx).