Axe FX for bass

[johnbegone]

I'm confused why everyone is saying the just love their pedalboards too much. You can run the board right into one, especially for FX that the Axe doesn't do or doesn't do well.

Simply because if it can't replace my pedalboard then it isn't worth the money. If I could get all of my tones out of a digital modeler I would use that, regardless of price. But to have to do that and still lug around a bunch of expensive pedals doesn't make it work for me, personally.

 

[Dave W]

It's an amp modeler, not an FX modeler. It just happens to have great effects in it.

 

[johnbegone]

Sure, and that's fair. I suppose I should retract my statement and just say that for ME, if I'm going to spend $2k on an amp modeler that only has one or two bass specific models, I would need it to also replace my pedalboard, mostly because I'd have to sell off the majority of my pedals to afford it.

One thing I've successfully done on the Kemper is to profile rigs WITH pedals in line and it sounds right. It only works with dirt pedals, of course, and they can't be gated fuzz pedals. But I profiled a bunch of overdrive / distortion / fuzz pedals in front of my guitarists VH4 and those profiles sound pretty wicked. You could do the same with bass, I'm sure - although the profiles I've made for bass don't sound correct to my ears. We tried profiling the VT Bass and the B7K just to have a more streamlined way to record demo stuff through the Kemper. Doesn't quite match up right on bass.