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christianatl wrote:

dazedbyday wrote:Om in an Egyptian temple.

On mushrooms.

damn

fever606 wrote:

christianatl wrote:my bff was at that show.

On mushrooms.

How is John, anyway? Need some new SAL jams in my life...

Workin' his ass off.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uww10NBu3_o[/youtube]

Sorry if the sound quality isn't the best, I recorded this shit on my phone real quick before I passed out for a well deserved nap.

Saw Sleep and Thou last night when they rolled through NOLA. Show was fucking killer. Thou's set was especially cool, because they played the one song from Heathen that I never expected to see live (it featured guest vocals) and when I saw them last it was with The Body in a basement with a shit PA and I couldn't hear anything.

Sleep's set surprised me. In the midst of being incredibly high, they avoided all the things I was afraid they would do. Matt's rig wasn't overbearingly loud (at High on Fire I couldn't hear the vocals or the other instruments) and there wasn't the excess needless wankery that turned me off from The Clarity. They opened with Nain's Baptism, did Dopesmoker, Dragonaut, Aquarian, Holy Mountain and a bunch of old stuff that I wasn't expecting. Fantastic time, except for the awkward conversation I had at the end with Bryan from Thou where I was trying to buy Tyrant and failing.

That's a pretty ferocious bill.

HeavyXIII wrote:Saw Sleep and Thou last night when they rolled through NOLA. Show was fucking killer. Thou's set was especially cool, because they played the one song from Heathen that I never expected to see live (it featured guest vocals) and when I saw them last it was with The Body in a basement with a shit PA and I couldn't hear anything.

Sleep's set surprised me. In the midst of being incredibly high, they avoided all the things I was afraid they would do. Matt's rig wasn't overbearingly loud (at High on Fire I couldn't hear the vocals or the other instruments) and there wasn't the excess needless wankery that turned me off from The Clarity. They opened with Nain's Baptism, did Dopesmoker, Dragonaut, Aquarian, Holy Mountain and a bunch of old stuff that I wasn't expecting. Fantastic time, except for the awkward conversation I had at the end with Bryan from Thou where I was trying to buy Tyrant and failing.

Do you live in nola? or near???


also nice shaun... dig the shadow banging going on as well.

Owning an AxeFX would be interesting but I wonder if after being in on that cost, plus a good EL34 power amp and road case and midi controller that you might start wishing you just got a Verellen or Matamp or 2 Marshalls.

fallen wrote:Owning an AxeFX would be interesting but I wonder if after being in on that cost, plus a good EL34 power amp and road case and midi controller that you might start wishing you just got a Verellen or Matamp or 2 Marshalls.

This. 110%.

Except that really, the ax-fx doesn't even seem all that interesting to me.

A friend of mine just picked up an Axe-FX to replace his tube head. If all goes well I'll be catching his band this weekend, so I'll report back on any audible differences in a ~500 person venue.

ShaolinLambKiller wrote:Do you live in nola? or near???

Fucking Baton Rouge. Land of the free, home of the shitty cover bands.

misterstomach wrote:

fallen wrote:Owning an AxeFX would be interesting but I wonder if after being in on that cost, plus a good EL34 power amp and road case and midi controller that you might start wishing you just got a Verellen or Matamp or 2 Marshalls.

This. 110%.

Except that really, the ax-fx doesn't even seem all that interesting to me.

Well here is the thing. I can build amps and I currently use one I built based on the old orange and matamps. I just finished a marshall 2203 build too. So (theoretically) I can build any tube amp I want. The main thing that attracts me to the axe fx is having all those amps in a box that I can carry around much easier as well as all the effects. I like the idea of being able to carry it back to my apartment and being able to have the exact same sounds to jam around with to solidify ideas for the band.

But you guys are right that it is a shit ton of cash to drop. I mean that midi controller is awesome with all of its functions but it is fucking expensive. Also from what I have gathered from researching the thing, I would probably pickup a solid state power amp from carvin rather that use a tube power amp like a mesa. It would save me some weight but it also would supposedly work out better as the axe has power amp simulations in in for all the different amps. A tube power amp like a mesa adds a lot of color and would affect the amp sims. So the soldano wouldn't sound like a soldano slo but instead a slo preamp going into a mesa power amp. Neat if I were fine basing all my sounds around the mesa power amp but lacks the versatility of the solid state power amp that doesn't color the tone as much.

With all that being said, I was loving the tone I was getting out of my amp tonight so the axe fx may just be something fun to talk about.

I've heard some players that I enjoy listening to (specifically, Kayzer's stuff) demo them, and some of the models sounded a little hit or miss to me. Not to compare the quality of the models themselves, but it reminded me of the amp sims on my Zoom G2. Most of them missed the mark, and the few that I really liked didn't really sound much like whatever they were trying to emulate.

The convenience is absolutely unbeatable though. I'm not keen on the differences, but the original Axe FX is substantially cheaper than the Axe FX II.

Personally I wouldn't pay very much for the convenience of something (I also don't have that kind of scratch), to me it just seems like there's only going to be a handful of settings I would use, and who wants to pay 2 grand for that?

Set it.
Forget it.

Long live one knob devices.

I know they're not really a band for the cool kids anymore, but Jesu's first two records are all POD and that guitar tone is fucking crushing.

Meshuggah did most of there stuff on pods. Even their latest album was mostly done using vst in Cuba rather than the axe the use of tour.

I don't have the money anyway so this is all just idle thought anyway. For now I'm going to streamline my board and see what I can accomplish with that. I'll start setting aside some cash and see how I'm feeling in the future.

You guys check out the new Minsk? I finally got around to putting it on my iPod and it is pretty killer.