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View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
What are you going to play the modeller through? I'm pretty much a home/hobbyist player only, so if it's helpful to know, I went through a few options on that and settled on what I think is the most pleasing route all round: I have a nice-looking 2 x12 combo valve amp in the living room. The amp is disconnected from both the mains and the speakers, with the speakers now connected to a Helix that lives under the sofa (via a small power amp).
So I can play the modeller through the nice-looking amp's speakers, get a huge range of sounds at any volume, enjoy that 'amp in the room' feeling and, whenever I want to, reconnect the amp and have a valve amp running again in seconds. I have never been happier with my set up.
It's like saying should I sell my horses to buy a car, or should I sell all my vinyl and just use spotify?
If you look at it on paper a car / spotify would be so much faster and more convenient, but it's not inspiring and creative in the same way.
By all logical reasoning your massive board with loads of delay pedals doesn't make any sense, but I bet it's way more creative than sitting at a DAW trying to set things up with plugins etc.
If you are buying to replace your amps I wouldn't.
G66 remove VAT to UK users and were also reducing price by a further 3% in order to compensate for the duties that would apply due to the fact that the Fractal Audio goods originate outside of the EU.
UPS then invoice the UK VAT (20%) and duty prior to delivery. UPS don't breakdown the charges - they state them as being "government charges" which doesn't help to clarify what is what.
on top of taking 50 hours+ of time just to get a copy of the customs declaration for a faulty item,
last week they sent me a threatening letter demanding late payment fees for duty and VAT on a parcel for which I refused delivery, and which has been back at the sender's premises for months
That took me 2 hours of phone calls and emails to the contacts I fortunately now have
* Workflow is a term coined by DrewFX to explain why modellers and multiFX are so useful for live performance.
In the back of my mind, I'm thinking portability and live use. I'm also thinking functionality.... basically the AxeIII plus a foot controller does a LOT more than the Quad Cortex and a LOT more than the Kemper (and perhaps about the same as the Helix???)
But then, the QC and Kemper can steal the souls of my amps to a more or lesser degree.... which the Axe can't......
But do I even need to care about that??? Ehhhhhh.... dunno.....
View my feedback at www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/comment/1201922
In the short term digital gear is pretty sellable, especially when not easy to source a new one.
given all the gear you do have though, surely something you already have must give you what you need? What do you expect the axe fx to improve on?
Semi wondering about chopping in the QC and Kemper and getting an AxeIII. Expensive mistake though!
I know all about the AxeIII and it's feature set, and I know what would and what wouldn't piss me off.... or at least I'm informed by my AxeII experiences. Maybe I've just had a boring morning, I dunno.