skoora
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I had heard his were modded as well but they might be running dedicated signal paths for clean vs. crunch where they don’t want to rely on the midi switching. Trying to reduce points of failure? But of course without details from the actual folks it’s just guess work.I think you misunderstand. I'm not questioning that James has backup gear in a touring rig. That's absolutely how most touring rigs are built. I'm questioning the reason for him having two main Triaxis pres and two backup Triaxis pres.
The story is that he uses Triaxis 1 for crunch, Triaxis 2 for cleans, Triaxis 3 for backup crunch and Triaxis 4 for backup cleans. But I don't buy it.
The Triaxis is a MIDI preamp that allows you to save every setting you can adjust to a patch. It's not like other preamps where some settings are controlled via relays and other settings are dialed with hard wired knobs. Because of the way the Triaxis lets you save and recall every parameter you can adjust in a patch, there's no reason to have two separate Triaxis preamps where one is for clean and the other is for crunch, because you could just use one Triaxis and program two patches in it, one patch for clean and one patch for crunch. This would mean you'd only need two Triaxis units total, one main and one backup.
I think he was doing something else entirely. I think James used two different Triaxis preamps at the same time to get his high gain tone (not sure if stereo spread or blended though), and the other two units were for backup. There's really no other reason to have four of them. But neither James or any of his techs have ever said a thing about it.