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As much as I tried to convince myself to spend 3kCAD on an Axe FX II, its just not happening.

I cant justify spending that much money on one single piece of gear.

As of now I am using all plugins to record guitars (Bias FX, Amplitube, also tried Helix Native and TSE Audio X50).

While they are alright, they dont sound as good as Id like and dont quite feel as good in terms of sound and response.

I found a good deal on a used Eleven Rack and was wondering whether its worth it.

How much do you have to tweak these things to get a good tone.

My problem with these YouTube demos is I really dont know what has been done to get a good tone.

I have one. Barely use it.

Id rather use S-gear, though eleven can get some decent chorus and delay type sounds.

Its got three channels (clean, crunch, hi gain) and it plays, sounds, and feels better than any amp sim Ive ever tried.

Youll save money and get a far better tone without the hassle of hardware if you go this route.

It also includes a few stomp pedals and other FX to give you most any sound you want.

At one time I had two Eleven Racks, one to dial in tones and one to gig.

I spent hundreds of hours trying to dial out the fizz in Eleven Rack.

It was a good hundreds of hours because I was playing, but I never got a good distorted tone from 11R.

The cleans are OK and you can put a distortion pedal in front of a clean 11R rig and it will sound good.

Bottom line, for me the 11R for distorted tones is a fizz box of bees.

S-Gear is great. Although its better in my opinion than 11R with distorted tones, I still wouldnt use it for distortion.

Put an OCD in front of S-Gear or 11R and youll get good tone.

The caveat to this post is I havent played the most recent S-Gear.

The first strum of a distorted tone on my Kemper nearly knocked me over.

In my experience if you want realistic distortion, one option you have is Kemper.

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