If you've read my posts before in this forum, and other threads around the interwebs, you'll see that I have previously owned a TriAxis, and sold it after a number of months and complained about different aspects of it and praising the quad preamp and mark IV in its place.
NOT SO FAST.
I happened upon (and bought) a cheaper 1.0 TriAxis recently, and really got to explore it today through the power section of my Mark IV. This version kills. Several factors I think are contributing to this.
1: The pick. Last attempt, I used a JP signature pick almost exclusively. After selling my last Tri, I realized that pick adds a lot of bass.
2: strings. The strings on my guitars are newer (but not new by any means)
3: the power amp. My Mark IV has a mix of 6L6 and EL-34s right now, but even when I had 4x 6L6s in it earlier, the TriAxis sounded better than the IV to me.
4: This is a version 1.0. The British Lead is pretty good, but now I found quite good settings in the entire Lead 1 range, which I could not previously do.
I wasn't expecting to like it this much, but now I want to make a mini (2u or 4u) rig around it.
Anyone else try multiple versions of the TriAxis and have any comments? My previous Tri was a very late serial number version 2.0 TX5 "classic boogie lead" model.
PS: Did I mention all the pretty lights? :lol:
NOT SO FAST.
I happened upon (and bought) a cheaper 1.0 TriAxis recently, and really got to explore it today through the power section of my Mark IV. This version kills. Several factors I think are contributing to this.
1: The pick. Last attempt, I used a JP signature pick almost exclusively. After selling my last Tri, I realized that pick adds a lot of bass.
2: strings. The strings on my guitars are newer (but not new by any means)
3: the power amp. My Mark IV has a mix of 6L6 and EL-34s right now, but even when I had 4x 6L6s in it earlier, the TriAxis sounded better than the IV to me.
4: This is a version 1.0. The British Lead is pretty good, but now I found quite good settings in the entire Lead 1 range, which I could not previously do.
I wasn't expecting to like it this much, but now I want to make a mini (2u or 4u) rig around it.
Anyone else try multiple versions of the TriAxis and have any comments? My previous Tri was a very late serial number version 2.0 TX5 "classic boogie lead" model.
PS: Did I mention all the pretty lights? :lol: