The stage at MCX, backline and microphones set up
Zone 06 · The Stage

Real sound.At real level.

Marshall amplification, a deep pedalboard and TONEX modelling — on the same guitar, through the same speakers, at the volume you actually play.

34
Systems
9
Brands
4
Amplifiers
Real
Level
Guitars and backline on the MCX stage
The backline

Volume is not a detail.It is the whole point.

An amplifier that sounds wonderful at conversation level can fall apart at stage level. The reverse is just as common.

Equipment in Zone 06
The chain

What you areactually looking at.

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Truss and the DJ position on the MCX stage
Two players

Nobody has ever beenargued into a tone.

You either heard it in the room, or you did not. That is the entire reason this space exists.

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The chain

A guitar signal,end to end.

01
Instrument

Your guitar, or one of ours.

02
Pedalboard

Eventide, UAFX, Warm Audio, Headrush, Sheeran — build a real chain.

03
Amplifier

Four Marshalls, or TONEX modelling through FRFR. A/B them.

04
Microphone

Six sE Electronics options — how it sounds mic'd is a second question.

05
Front of house

Into the desk, where the audience actually hears it.

Full equipment list

Every item,by category.

Rigged, powered and lit for a working day
The stageRigged, powered and lit for a working day

34 pieces of equipment from 9 brands, grouped by what they do.

Effects Pedal
  • Universal AudioUAFX Starlight
  • Universal AudioUAFX Astra
  • Universal AudioUAFX Reverberator
  • Warm AudioCentavo
  • Warm AudioWarm Bender
  • Warm AudioC1 Stereo Chorus
  • EventideH90 Harmonizer Pedal
  • EventideH9 Pedal
  • EventideBlackhole
  • EventideKnife Drop Fuzz
  • EventideTricerachorous
  • EventideMicroPitch
  • EventideUltra Tap
FRFR Speaker
  • IK MultimediaTONEX Cab
  • HeadrushHeadrush FRFR108 MK2
Guitar Amp/Effects Modeler
  • IK MultimediaTONEX ONE
  • IK MultimediaTONEX Pedal
  • HeadrushHeadrush CORE
Vocal Effects Pedal
  • HeadrushHeadrush VX5
Looper Pedal
  • Sheeran LoopersSheeran Looper+
Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsV2 Switch Dynamic Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsV3 Cardioid Dynamic Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsV7 Supercardiod Dynamic Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsVT PTT Dynamic Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsV7 Gold 25th AE Dynamic Microphone
  • sE ElectronicsV7 Nickel 25th AE Dynamic Microphone
  • Warm AudioWA-19N
Inline Preamp
  • sE ElectronicsDM1 inline preamp
DJ Gear
  • Native InstrumentsTraktor MX2 Compact DJ Controller
  • Native InstrumentsTraktor F1
Guitar Amplifier
  • MarshallMG10G
  • MarshallMG30GFX
  • MarshallCODE50
  • MarshallMS-2
Represented in this zone

The brands on the floor.

EventideHeadrushIK MultimediaMarshallNative InstrumentsSheeran LoopersUniversal AudioWarm AudiosE Electronics
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Music Creation

Ideas begin at the table, not in a catalogue.
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Recording

Capture, monitor and judge with confidence.
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Reading about it settles nothing.

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Why this room exists

Tone is settled in a room at volume, or it is not settled

You either heard it or you did not. Nobody has ever been argued into a tone.

Guitar equipment is the most heavily reviewed and least reliably chosen category in this building. The reason is simple: everything that matters happens at playing volume, in a real room, through a particular instrument — and none of those three survive a video.

The stage exists to restore all three at once. Amplification at working level, modelling switchable against the amps it is modelling, and your own guitar in the chain, because a pedal that transforms one instrument can do nothing at all for another.

Why it is laid out this way

Four decisions, and what each one rejected

A room can be arranged to demonstrate or to decide. These are the choices that make this one the second, with the alternative named rather than left out of the story.

At working volume

at a level that will not disturb anyone

Amplifiers, speakers and pedals all behave differently when they are loud. A quiet test is not a smaller version of a loud one; it is a different test with a different answer.
Modelling beside the amp it models

modelling assessed on its own

Switchable in seconds against the real thing. Held apart, both sound convincing. Held together is where you find out what you actually think.
Bring your own guitar

playing the house instrument

The instrument is half the equation. Judging a rig through somebody else's guitar answers a question you did not ask.
A deep board, wired and powered

pedals in boxes on a wall

Order, power and the interaction between pedals are most of the result. A board already wired lets you hear that in the ten minutes you actually have.

How this room works

Built to be argued with

At the volume you actually play

Marshall amplification, a deep pedalboard and modelling side by side, through the same guitar and the same speakers. Tone arguments are settled in a room at working volume or they are not settled at all.

Modelling against the real thing

TONEX and Headrush next to the amps they are modelling, switchable in seconds. Nobody has ever been argued into a tone; you either heard it in the room or you did not.

Bring your own guitar

The instrument is half the equation. A pedal that transforms one guitar can do nothing for another, which is why the room is set up for you to plug in what you already own.

Why it has to be in person

What a page cannot show you

There is nothing on this page you can trust, and that is not a failing of the writing. Recorded tone is somebody else's microphone, somebody else's room and somebody else's decision about what you should hear. Stand in front of it at volume with your own guitar and the question answers itself in about a minute.

What you leave with

  1. A decision made at volume, in a room, through your own instrument.
  2. A straight answer on modelling against amplification for the way you actually play.
  3. How the pedals interact in order, which is most of the sound.
  4. Occasionally, the discovery that the rig you already own is closer than you thought.
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The One Tower · Barsha Heights · Dubai
Zone 06 · The Stage
Systems34Brands9Amplifiers4
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