https://www.walrusaudio.com
Take three classic amp types - 'Fullerton', 'Dartford' and 'London'. Grace them with six high quality IR's that you can mix and match. The ability to load your own in would be cool too. Make it true stereo and give it a great 'Room' control for ambience. How about a different amp/cab combo for either side of the stereo field? Yeah. Oh, we might need a Boost... a separate one for each amp. OK. And MIDI control ...full MIDI control. Right. Actually, a high quality headphone output would be nice too. OK. And, say, three onboard presets expandable to 128 with MIDI. Yessirree. That folks, pretty much sums up the new ACS1, part of the Mako Series, from Walrus Audio. It's a pedal and very handy utility you may find hard to ignore.
Signal path:
Guitar to Axe-FX III Input 1; Axe-FX III Input 1 to Axe-FX III Output 3; Axe-FX III Output 3 to ACS1 Mono Input (Axe-FX III Output 3 echos Input 1's signal); ACS1 Stereo Outputs to Axe-FX III Stereo Input 3 (this gives me an unadulterated stereo FX loop with no extra amp, cab or effects blocks engaged); Axe-FX III Stereo Input 3 to Axe-FX III Stereo Output 1; Axe-FX III Stereo Output 1 to Logic Pro X via USB. Logic Limiter with minimal slam over output to keep levels in check. Mastered in Final Cut Pro X.
Today's tools:
Guitar: 2020 Fender 70th Anniversary Broadcaster. Stock
Amps: Walrus Audio ACS1 models/cab sims
Cables: Providence and Boss
Extra utilities: Morningstar MC8 Midi Controller
Power Supply: Eventide PowerMax by Cioks
Mic: Samson Airline77 (me)
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro and Canon D60
Soundcard: PreSonus Quantum & Fractal Audio Systems Axe-FX III
Monitors: Blue Sky Media Desk 2.1
Computer: 2017 Apple iMac Pro, 2.5 GHz 14-Core Intel Xeon W, 64 GB 2666 MHz DDR4, Radeon Pro Vega 64X 16 GB
Software: Logic Pro X, Apple Final Cut Pro X, Compressor.