Hey y'all...
since we (family) are slowly but surely getting ready to move from 220/240V Germany to 100V Land of the rising sun in June, I had to make up my mind about wether or not packing and shipping tons of racks and tube amps that are built/wired for 220V...thus making it necessary to get and add some kind of sufficiently spec'd voltage converter (Furman AR, Kikusui PCR1000M,...) adding even more weight (and spending $$$).
Talking weight...my Triaxis/2:90/MPX-G2 rig had a total of 75kg (just the shock mount rack plus gear inside)...add cabinets, footcontroller...get the point?!
Long story short....head or gut decision. Finally ended up selling both the big Boogie rig and my old and trusted Engl Savage SE head locally here in Germany to nice folks who travelled a couple of hundred km to test-drive and pick up / buy the stuff.
I been noodling around with modelers since 2009 (had a DigiTech GSP1101 back then), got an 11R early last year and got an AxeFX II XL+ last December.
I´ve been on a steep learning curve with especially the Fractal unit and was able to get reeeeeally close to my feels-at-home Boogie Mk and Engl tones. Add the surplus of top-notch quality effects, endless routing/parameter/... options.
So I also sold the 11R and finally the Axe II XL+ as well, but just because the AxeFX II is basically the exact same minus some more memory and peripheral connection possibilities (also, the Axe II can be found ~1000-1200€ cheaper than the XL+).
The final evolution of my present rig now consist of an AxeFX II (MkII) and a Roland FC200 (that I got for dirt cheap off the *bay).
The FC200 is a nice sturdy MIDI Controller with Expr Pedal and offers the possibility to hook up up to 6 additional Midi switches/controllers/Expression pedals.
I´ll use the built-in pedal for Master Vol and I´ll probably add another Mission Engineering SP-1 to control the Wah.
I had the chance to gig out with this setup recently, just either using the backline at the venue as poweramps/cabs, active monitors and/or going direct FOH.
Could´t be happier with the sound results, personally don´t even *feel* that big a difference to before, got compliments for my tone and sound don´t have to haul tons of stuff around anymore....