Avid eleven opinions?

thomasw88

Anyone using one of these bad boys for live work?

id be interested in hearing Opinions on ease of use, sound quality, easy to setup and change on the fly.

randomhandclaps

I'm actually in the midst  of considering purchasing one myself.  Not sure I can justify the price jump between the 11R and an Axe FX.

I know @digitalscream has used one quite extensively.

digitalscream

They're brilliant - with a good power amp, they sound excellent (I found a Marshall 20/20 works much better than a Peavey 60/60, for example). There's only one problem...

...the gap between patches. In a really noisy non-PA mix, you can get away with it. Playing somewhere with a good PA and everything running through it, it's pretty much completely unusable. Mine's studio-only for that reason.

thomasw88

digitalscream;325510" said:

They're brilliant - with a good power amp, they sound excellent (I found a Marshall 20/20 works much better than a Peavey 60/60, for example). There's only one problem...

...the gap between patches. In a really noisy non-PA mix, you can get away with it. Playing somewhere with a good PA and everything running through it, it's pretty much completely unusable. Mine's studio-only for that reason.

Can you explain what you mean by gap? As in time delay?

sweepy

Is that a pause before switching patches  ?

digitalscream

Yes - a gap of silence as soon as you hit the MIDI footswitch to change the patch. It's not huge, but it's enough that if you go for a solo sound just before you hit the first note, you'll lose the attack of the note and it comes in abruptly.

thomasw88

ah right.. thats no good then.  had a similar problm on the tc nova system, so that went after about a week.

phew..  as I've got more pedals and amps that I know what to do with.

sweepy

That is a shame, they look a nice little unit

Drew_TNBD

Most of them do it to some extent. The boss gt100 is really good if that's your only bugbear

digitalscream

@Drew_fx - did the GSP1101 do it, too?

Drew_TNBD

digitalscream said:

@Drew_fx - did the GSP1101 do it, too?

Yes. As did the HD500, and as does the Axe FX if you stick to using just presets.