Axe-Fx III / EVH5150III / METAL

[inyarak74]

The riff at 51 to 1:05 is really cool. Could make a complete song off of that riff.
Heck, I might have to steal it.

Agree

 

[Donnie B.]

That was great. Loved some of the cool percussion too!

 

[rottingcorpse]

So much to love. Great riffs and a beautiful guitar.

 

[RaceU4her]

Bad ass!!

 

[RevDrucifer]

I have owned every piece of Fractal gear going back to the AXE 1 and my go to amp was always the Freidman BE. I even purchased a real 2015 BE100, 2018 BE100 and lastly the BE100 DLX. Prior to Cygnus I was able to pretty much tone match my AXE 3 to the real BE100 DLX and found myself playing the AXE 3 exclusively so I sold off all my real tube heads. Once Cygnus hit, I can no longer gel with the Friedman sims as to me they seem super compressed now and choked off when the sat switch is engaged whereas that was never the case before.

To me after Cygnus these are the amps that sound the most appealing to my ears for 80's/90's high gain:

EVH 5153 100 red
EVH 5153 100 blue
Atomica High
Friedman Smallbox

I have been running the EVH red/blue with EL34 in the power section and that helps tame it down and open it up from my experimenting.

Check ‘em out again as Cliff just changed some things with yesterday’s update. I wasn’t thrilled with the way it sounded after Cygnus either and my Friedman preset was my main one I’d jam around with. I haven’t checked out these new models, but I’m hoping somewhere in there, I can recreate what I used to have.

If not, I won’t be totally bummed out because I’ve gone apeshit for all the Mesa’s since Cygnus came out. And now with the new speaker compression/dynamics tweaks, there’s just one more area for tightening up that low end.

 

[rm5153]

Check ‘em out again as Cliff just changed some things with yesterday’s update. I wasn’t thrilled with the way it sounded after Cygnus either and my Friedman preset was my main one I’d jam around with. I haven’t checked out these new models, but I’m hoping somewhere in there, I can recreate what I used to have.

If not, I won’t be totally bummed out because I’ve gone apeshit for all the Mesa’s since Cygnus came out. And now with the new speaker compression/dynamics tweaks, there’s just one more area for tightening up that low end.

Will do. I stopped updating based on all the Cygnus rev updates about 2 weeks ago so I need to do the latest with all the speaker goodies.

I had the opportunity to play loud on Saturday and every amp model sounded awesome. The Atomica High, EVH 100 Red/Blue, Friedman Smallbox and even the BE100 all sounded stellar. Grant it when I play loud, the saturation switch gets turned off except with the Atomica High as the sat switch is adherently part of its DNA. All sounded amazing and open and the dynamics now with just the volume knob on your guitar is amazing.