Sorry 4 The Late Thank You,
You just returned from vacation last week, and I just left.
The trouble is, and I understand this as I played Guitar years back, is that the sound from his little stage monitor sounds really good, and he can get so many different tones. Plus when he found out about my rotary cabinet, my argument of no unecessary stage monitors lost it's validity.
He has a Mesa Boogie Triaxis w/ a custom cabinet that uses 2 x 8" speakers, so it's a really nice recording rig, and the Sennheiser E609 can send the signal to the XITE-1's mic pre, or the FMR. Once he proved how quiet he could play and still have so many great tones, I could hardly argue.
Before I left I did learn how to get some real quality sounding feedback / distortion for my sampled Guitars though. I will be covering the Acoustic Guitar sounds and backing rhythm's when he's soloing, as I absolutely hate the way a group sounds when the Guitarist starts soloing and the whole meat of the sound drops out. While I do really enjoy a good power trio, live that powerful sound goes out the window when solos start, no matter how great the Guitarist is.
I was surpised how good VDAT sounds playing back the Drum tracks, The Tobias Bass signal is sent to the FMR and BAM, and sent to the powered cabinets. So I believe we can get a really powerful low db sound using a small Guiatr rig and Rotary cabinet, while Scope can process the Bass, Vocals, and Keyboards.
What are you using for your Guitar sound these days?