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New Modeler Day: Axe FX III, mark 1, no turbo, used at GC for the price of a brand new HX Floor.
After initial shipping, a late UPS trailer arrival, a UPS rep telling me the package might be considered lost, I received the wrong unit: an Axe FX II XL. Okay I guess, I wanted one of those 12 years ago, but not for this price. Back it went and the actual Axe III arrived a few days later.
It's a little dirty -- like it had been sitting in a shed out in someone's backyard, and I can see why. The person who sold it to GC had the input levels cranked all the way up to the point where every amp model sounded bloated and fuzzy with a few user presets containing routing enough to make you gag. They had uploaded one User IR to EVERY SPACE available
They probably tried their best, got the worst tones imaginable, and wrote the device off. I'll have to clean it up when I stop playing the damn thing! The amp models are SICK! The reverbs are STELLAR! The Plex Delay is PHENOMINAL! The analog-style delays are...okay -- not as fun as the HX delays -- I like to mess with the knobs to have delays self-oscillate and change pitch, something these delays don't do.
Cabs are cool, but my own IRs tend to not have the influence of a microphone's signature sound, so I use those. I've made a preset with the Class A 30w, Plexi 100w High, and FAS Modern to get close to my favorite Helix presets and I'm about 90% happy with how they turned out. I've wanted to try a FAS product for over 10 years and this is me breaking the cherry.
Class-A 30W overdriven, Plex Delay
After initial shipping, a late UPS trailer arrival, a UPS rep telling me the package might be considered lost, I received the wrong unit: an Axe FX II XL. Okay I guess, I wanted one of those 12 years ago, but not for this price. Back it went and the actual Axe III arrived a few days later.
It's a little dirty -- like it had been sitting in a shed out in someone's backyard, and I can see why. The person who sold it to GC had the input levels cranked all the way up to the point where every amp model sounded bloated and fuzzy with a few user presets containing routing enough to make you gag. They had uploaded one User IR to EVERY SPACE available
They probably tried their best, got the worst tones imaginable, and wrote the device off. I'll have to clean it up when I stop playing the damn thing! The amp models are SICK! The reverbs are STELLAR! The Plex Delay is PHENOMINAL! The analog-style delays are...okay -- not as fun as the HX delays -- I like to mess with the knobs to have delays self-oscillate and change pitch, something these delays don't do.
Cabs are cool, but my own IRs tend to not have the influence of a microphone's signature sound, so I use those. I've made a preset with the Class A 30w, Plexi 100w High, and FAS Modern to get close to my favorite Helix presets and I'm about 90% happy with how they turned out. I've wanted to try a FAS product for over 10 years and this is me breaking the cherry.
Class-A 30W overdriven, Plex Delay
it helps a lot!
