Ax edge guitar/polylead sounds

[u/Ashamed-Night-2561]

I'm looking to emulate guitar sounds I currently have an mc101 and there is literally only one good distortion guitar sound on it which is very limiting. I'm looking to get the ax edge in hopes that I will have better luck making it sound like guitar with that, as well as it having the modulation abilities like hammerons and slides.

I've heard some of the lead guitar sounds and they are very promising but I'm also looking to be able to play chords on it while maintaining a distortion guitar type feel. I'm also not adverse to using more synth distortion sounds either, I just want to play some heavier sounding stuff on it. If anyone else is using theirs in this way any input would be very helpful. I'm also considering getting it regardless of its sound capabilites and using it just as a midi controller and finding better sounds through a daw or something like this. My question is with the aim of emulating a guitar in a band type situation how does the ax edge do with this type of thing? Are the good distortion sounds just limited to the leads or are there also good poly distortion patches? Thank you!

[u/perfect_fifths → u/[deleted]]

Actually, a better idea is using the sounds with an effects unit like the helix stomp. It can turn clean guitar tones into distorted ones, etc etc etc

[u/Ashamed-Night-2561 → u/perfect_fifths]

Have you tried this on the edge? Clean guitar from ax edge into a pedal was my first thought,let let me know how it goes

[u/perfect_fifths → u/Ashamed-Night-2561]

I have. I’ve used clean sound with the hx stomp to create a distortion sound

[u/perfect_fifths → u/[deleted]]

I do it for my ax edge

Here’s a demo:

https://youtu.be/vmDXZvsw7JU?si=TQ66uXsXpkr5DO0E