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#42620 - 01/31/15 09:53 AM Fell in love with the 11R again!
noguud Offline
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Not that I ever fell out of love mind you.

I never grabbed the Superpack from singtall, mostly because the samples I heard were always high gain, I don't hook my 11R up to a computer very often for transfer of patches, and well it is really easy tweak to get something I'm happy with myself to be honest. Maybe I'm not that picky, I don't know. I go for a vibe more than dead on artist accuracy I guess.

Anyway, months ago singtall did a great public service (in my opinion) of posting some Nuno/Extreme inspired patches. Now I do have a soft spot for Extreme stuff, so that was enough for me to hook the 11R up to a PC and grab the patches. I liked them better than my own versions I had already made. I think I saved three or four of them and still have them on my 11R. Thanks singtall!

So a couple of nights ago, I started modding one of the patches, simply swapping the amp from a JCM800 to the Soldano crunch channel, turn the gain down from 9 or so to 5, turned the tone knobs ever so slightly - and wow! I really like this tone. I usually play with the fender and marshall models, but this one is REALLY dynamic. Soft picking cleaned up so well, then dig in and you have a great hard rock crunch. No volume control knob is needed... I was amazed all over again at the detail of the 11R models and how much they nailed it (in my opinion). I accidentally over-wrote the existing patch, but it's a keeper anyway!

Just wanted to share my rediscovery of why I enjoy this box so much... cool

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#42623 - 02/01/15 10:30 AM Re: Fell in love with the 11R again! [Re: noguud]
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Now if he would just get a guitar with a tonezone pickup, so I could have some more patches to play with that are already tone matched to Nuno.

This place is like family once we start trading patches and adding our changes.

http://www.dimarzio.com/pickups/humbuckers/high-power/tone-zone#
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#42635 - 02/01/15 04:37 PM Re: Fell in love with the 11R again! [Re: TLTD]
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that's a good story brother. i fall in love with the eleven rack every time i make a new preset for someone. so easy to work with (now that i have plenty of starting point presets).

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#42653 - 02/03/15 03:03 PM Re: Fell in love with the 11R again! [Re: noguud]
ADF Offline
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Registered: 04/13/12
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Originally Posted By: noguud
Not that I ever fell out of love mind you.

I never grabbed the Superpack from singtall, mostly because the samples I heard were always high gain, I don't hook my 11R up to a computer very often for transfer of patches, and well it is really easy tweak to get something I'm happy with myself to be honest. Maybe I'm not that picky, I don't know. I go for a vibe more than dead on artist accuracy I guess.

Anyway, months ago singtall did a great public service (in my opinion) of posting some Nuno/Extreme inspired patches. Now I do have a soft spot for Extreme stuff, so that was enough for me to hook the 11R up to a PC and grab the patches. I liked them better than my own versions I had already made. I think I saved three or four of them and still have them on my 11R. Thanks singtall!

So a couple of nights ago, I started modding one of the patches, simply swapping the amp from a JCM800 to the Soldano crunch channel, turn the gain down from 9 or so to 5, turned the tone knobs ever so slightly - and wow! I really like this tone. I usually play with the fender and marshall models, but this one is REALLY dynamic. Soft picking cleaned up so well, then dig in and you have a great hard rock crunch. No volume control knob is needed... I was amazed all over again at the detail of the 11R models and how much they nailed it (in my opinion). I accidentally over-wrote the existing patch, but it's a keeper anyway!

Just wanted to share my rediscovery of why I enjoy this box so much... cool


A couple of weeks ago I was going through my old amp simulator type stuff I've recorded with over the years, including the Scholz Rockman, Alesis Quadraverb GT, Tech 21 Sans Amp, Line 6 POD. And while I was surprised that some of the patches in those antiquated pieces still sounded pretty good, most of it was not comparable to what 11R does.

So I also sort of 'fell in love' with the 11R all over.

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#42654 - 02/03/15 04:06 PM Re: Fell in love with the 11R again! [Re: ADF]
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I've been working on some Eleven Rack only patches for my new guitar & it's still got a lot of that special something in it that sounds so real to my ears, especially after hearing some raw amp sounds.
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#42659 - 02/05/15 01:17 PM Re: Fell in love with the 11R again! [Re: TLTD]
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Registered: 04/13/12
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Another thing worth mentioning is the sheer bang for the buck. I did some comparisons between guitar sounds with the Marshall Plexi on recordings vs. what Eleven Rack generates. I'm sure purists would consider me a Neanderthal for saying this, but they really are very close.

I then looked up prices, and a Plexi head would run me $2,700; then I'd need the cabinet, an isolation room I could crank it up in, microphones, etc. So for a fraction of that cost, I'm in the ballpark (and truthfully more than good enough for me). And that's merely a small fraction of what 11R can do.

I've wondered if as technology progresses if the 11R will become antiquated (as I'm sure some already think it is). For the immediate future I think it's great!

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