Soldano X88-IR

jellodog said:
That's right.

IIRC, it's because by offering such a feature it would potentially give away some proprietary FAS modelling secrets to those that would analyse such things.

But yeah, I had exactly the same thought concerning the X88IR + Axe-Fx
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Sorry to hear the sad news Whizz. Many condolences sent. Never easy dealing with the loss of a parent. I had to go through this a couple years ago as well.

in other news, I just received my X88-IR last night. Will post up at some point after I have had a chance to use it for a bit.
 
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Have her wired up in stereo to my pair of 412’s. Always interesting to see how you dial things with actual cabs. Landed here:

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Running a Dyna Comp and 808 pedal into the front for clean and overdrive respectively. Pulling back some mids helps a little with the 808, which is necessary to roll off some bottom end. Interestingly I’m finding that leaving the Fat and Bright switches off and using more of the Treble dial, I like better, generally speaking, with my cabs. I’ve even turned off the presence and depth buttons on the LXII.

I’m kind of defaulting back to the regular clean channel over altered. Thumping the regular clean with a comp just does the thing. I do want to experiment with different OD’s with Altered mode, because I think it will end up being strong for hairy cleans, but the stock clean is where it’s at. Also, with Crunch mode I’m basically just finding the spot where it opens up on the gain pot and leaving it. It wants to go hard too. If you don’t use an OD and just hit the first sweet spot on the dial, it’s very nice and snappy, in that muscular SLO kind of way. Once you start cranking it though, you might as well just go to the Overdrive channel.
 
Whizzinby said:
Have her wired up in stereo to my pair of 412’s. Always interesting to see how you dial things with actual cabs. Landed here:

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Running a Dyna Comp and 808 pedal into the front for clean and overdrive respectively. Pulling back some mids helps a little with the 808, which is necessary to roll off some bottom end. Interestingly I’m finding that leaving the Fat and Bright switches off and using more of the Treble dial, I like better, generally speaking, with my cabs. I’ve even turned off the presence and depth buttons on the LXII.

I’m kind of defaulting back to the regular clean channel over altered. Thumping the regular clean with a comp just does the thing. I do want to experiment with different OD’s with Altered mode, because I think it will end up being strong for hairy cleans, but the stock clean is where it’s at. Also, with Crunch mode I’m basically just finding the spot where it opens up on the gain pot and leaving it. It wants to go hard too. If you don’t use an OD and just hit the first sweet spot on the dial, it’s very nice and snappy, in that muscular SLO kind of way. Once you start cranking it though, you might as well just go to the Overdrive channel.
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I tried it in the power stage of my Diezel . It is huge sounding with great sustain whatever the gain level.
 
Whizzinby said:
Have her wired up in stereo to my pair of 412’s. Always interesting to see how you dial things with actual cabs. Landed here:

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Running a Dyna Comp and 808 pedal into the front for clean and overdrive respectively. Pulling back some mids helps a little with the 808, which is necessary to roll off some bottom end. Interestingly I’m finding that leaving the Fat and Bright switches off and using more of the Treble dial, I like better, generally speaking, with my cabs. I’ve even turned off the presence and depth buttons on the LXII.

I’m kind of defaulting back to the regular clean channel over altered. Thumping the regular clean with a comp just does the thing. I do want to experiment with different OD’s with Altered mode, because I think it will end up being strong for hairy cleans, but the stock clean is where it’s at. Also, with Crunch mode I’m basically just finding the spot where it opens up on the gain pot and leaving it. It wants to go hard too. If you don’t use an OD and just hit the first sweet spot on the dial, it’s very nice and snappy, in that muscular SLO kind of way. Once you start cranking it though, you might as well just go to the Overdrive channel.
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Eagle said:
I tried it in the power stage of my Diezel . It is huge sounding with great sustain whatever the gain level.
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Do you guys see it's value above and beyond the Axe III and know it's a keeper?
 
Eagle said:
I tried it in the power stage of my Diezel . It is huge sounding with great sustain whatever the gain level.
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Oh for sure Crunch is awesome, I’m just primarily trying to use it as a distinct channel - gain stage with a guitar with relatively hot pickups. It’s kind of filthy in its own right, which isn’t a bad thing at all, but it’s really dependent on how you’re hitting the front end.

With my strat, the Crunch channel is more flexible across the range of the gain pot.
 
JiveTurkey said:
Do you guys see it's value above and beyond the Axe III and know it's a keeper?
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I’m keeping it, but I’m not really looking at it from an A vs B perspective.

The AxeFX pretty much amazingly covers every tone known to man. (Including the SLO)

From a “HOLY SHIT, IM PLUGGING INTO AN X88 INTO A FULL STACK” perspective, it’s fucking awesome. :ROFLMAO:
 
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This is one of those times when you open the box and it exceeds your expectations by a mile!
Boy oh boy...did they ever tune this thing perfectly!
 
I got mine straight away because I expected the early ones to sell out quickly and it will likely return with a price bump.. ‘This and availability will also make the SH price either the same as new now or even more. You can’t lose either way. If you don’t like it ( and I can’t imagine that you wouldn’t ) it would be incredibly easy to get your money back.
 
Eagle said:
I know it doesn’t. My sound has always been relatively simple but I am super particular about it. Reverbs and delays are 99% of my fx but they must sound like environments not fx . This rules out most things. H90 in particular is really crappy for that. I like the Fractal versions of classic rack units that I had in the past best. The new vp4 looks like it will crush the H90 on every level. I am usually happy if my amp tone is great and I have a bit of reverb that you can’t even notice. It’s all about the interaction between amp and guitar anyway.
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Oh yeah man, a player’s verb/delay/tremoo effects are a massive part of the signature in their sound.
 
James Freeman said:
Yep...
Until you crank a single channel tube amp through a reactive load and start to hear all kinds of "things" the AxeFx doesn't quite do right, then proceed to fiddle with very deep and advanced parameters to replicate these "things".
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If you think there’s no difference between a model and the original you are just wrong. The thing is does that difference matter to you?
 
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