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Nah not confusing. All I meant was, on the Pod... if you have the FX loop in the chain, you get your real amp. If you turn it off, and put an amp sim in the chain, you get the amp sim. I assumed the AF2 would be the same?? Doesn't affect me much if not, but might affect Si.
I think your choice of controller unit really depends upon the control functionality you think you're going to need
I personally found that scenes on their own didn't give me quite enough control.. you can turn things on / off and flip X-Y, but you can for example pan things.. and this is where the 2nd CC command comes up trumps
so if you think that scenes will be enough, you'll be able to use pretty much any controller.. if you want presets that have more slick functionality, you'll need a controller that can at the very least send 2 CC commends..
Guess I'll have to start my own thread in a week or so!
I'm pretty set on getting the MFC. I want to get one of those, a Mission Engineering expression pedal with switch, for the wah, my Ernie Ball as an expression pedal for volume, and possibly add another one for preset-specific weirdness that I can fade in; things like cranking the delay feedback and what not. Add in my Boss switch for tap tempo, plug it all into the MFC jack inputs, then the connection cable for the MFC to the Axe FX. Job done!
But I'll have to wait a month to get the MFC, or sell my pedals in advance - which is risky business.
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I think once I have the MFC, I'll be able to at least get my tones that I need for our existing songs quite easily, just using scenes and the effects. That wont take me much time at all, because the effect settings are pretty basic and I've transferred from device to device with ease. It's the amp modelling that will take me time to get used to using; though I'm not initially planning to use any of that in a live setting.
Well Jim thinks I should at least try the preamps going into the poweramp of my Diezel D-Moll. I am rather curious, so I will give that go. But the main intention is to run it in 4cm with my D-Moll, and just use the Axe for effects only. In the Axe it'd be something like this:
Volume (always on) (Expression pedal 1)
Wah (bypassable) (Expression pedal 2, and switch 1)
Drive block - Only if I need it and can get a convincing low-gain tubescreamer sound.
PEQ block - Bit of finetuning of the tone going to the amp
Effects in front of the Diezel D-Moll:
Delay 1 - Set to reverse mode, sync'd to a quarter note, mix around 20%
Delay 2 - Set to mono mode, sync'd to a quarter note, mix around 25%
Reverb 1 - Set to hall mode, sounding as close to my sound as I can get it
[DIEZEL D-MOLL PREAMP]
Post D-Moll effects:
Anyway.. that's all kinda on-paper and off the top of my head. I'll have totally different presets for recording purposes. But for live use I don't care about stereo effects, I don't care about compression, pitch effects, chorus, or overt use of modifiers. But for recording might be a different story.
You guys might be wondering why the change of heart, since recently I said I didn't see the point of the AF2 in my particular setup. Well, apart from gas, I really want to simplify my tap dancing routine and my floor setup. Totally happy with the amp. I want a wider range of effects, without the extra cabling, power, and floor space. Did a gig recently in a little pub where just putting the MFC on the ground would've really freed up some of the floor space around me for er.. the other two stringed instruments in the band!! So it's a combination of things really. I've managed to justify the expense from a variety of different angles.
Plus GAS.
As an aside, threads like this make me think we need a digital + modelling forum here. Wonder what @Digitalscream @TTony and @Monquixote think of that ?
I did the same thing and probably got the same deal.
Drew - I used to like the "toe switch" thing with the wah - given that I've always used a real Crybaby with my previous fx-units..
a while back though I decided to try out auto engage with one of my Boss FV-500 pedals... and I totally fell in love with it..
performance wise it is absolutely superb.. intuitive to use, immediate in the wah it engages / disengages..
I liked it so much I immediated ordered another FV-500.. and now I'd never go back to a toe-switch wah..
so now I use 3 FV-500 pedals
XP1 = volume [which I always place as the first block in the fx chain]
XP2 = tone morphing
XP3 = wah
Aye... I'll stop giving you a hard time about your new 11R now