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Had my first play with an Axe-fx II yesterday! I played through a mates cheap pair of monitors
At first i wasn't really impressed at all and i straight away noticed a strange frequency in all the high gain amps, Has anyone else noticed this? :/
After about 5hrs i was fairly happy with the patch i was working on but not AMAZED
Was really hoping to be blown away by this thing, been looking forward to playing one for sooo long, It might've been the cheap monitors or my lack of experience tweaking on it that put me off but yeah!
EDIT: I also noticed i found it reallyy hard to get even a half decent noise-gated tone when blending two amp heads and the axefx picks up guitar noise (floyd springs etc) ALOT more! was i doing something wrong? o:
What firmware version was the Axe-fx?
Since firmware 9, the buttons on the amp simulations behaved almost exactly like the real ones, and with firmware 10 theyre spot on. So 5 hours to set up a patch sounds extremely weird to say the least. Dialing in a good sound shouldnt take longer than dialing in the real amp.
Perhaps power amp simulation was disabled if it is set up to go through a power amp and cab live.
Anyways, getting a usable/good tone on a firmware 9-10 axe-fx should take minutes, not hours.
So 5 hours to set up a patch sounds extremely weird to say the least. Dialing in a good sound shouldnt take longer than dialing in the real amp though a same cab or cab sim.
What firmware version was the Axe-fx?
Since firmware 9, the buttons on the amp simulations behaved almost exactly like the real ones, and with firmware 10 theyre spot on. So 5 hours to set up a patch sounds extremely weird to say the least. Dialing in a good sound shouldnt take longer than dialing in the real amp.
Perhaps power amp simulation was disabled if it is set up to go through a power amp and cab live.
Anyways, getting a usable/good tone on a firmware 9-10 axe-fx should take minutes, not hours.
v10 Firmware!
I'll actually ask him if he had power amp simulation turned off cos he does run through a powerball and cab i'm pretty sure, plus when we were playing around with the patches they were really quiet unless cranked and by then the axe was peaking :/
the chain i had if anyone is wondering was: gate - overdrive - gate - compressor - 5153 red + 6160 II - boutique 2x12 - param eq
If the poweramp simulation actually was disabled, what kind of difference would it have made if it were on? like would the amps sound actually better or just louder?
EDIT: turns out the poweramp sim was indeed off![]()
Poweramp sim will make a huge difference. Glad you solved the mystery
Poweramp sim effects tone different from amp to amp. I.e. older Marshalls get their distortion from the power amp section. So it's not easy to say exactly how the poweramp effects the tone, but most of the time when people talk about an amps sweet spot, they talk about the point where the master volume has been increased enough for the power amp to kick in
If you have a second go at the Axe i recommend the following:
- Start out with a simple amp-cab layout. No dual amps or fx gallore.
- While choosing cab sim, try running in stereo and pan both cabs to center
- Choose cab sims from the new list of mix packs "I like to combine the John Petrucci cab mix + one of the Kalthallen V30's"
- Pick an amp sim you're familiar with, adjust master volume to taste and the use the level parameter to even out volume (Master volume affects tone from the power amp, level is just loudness/volume, which means you can have a kranked amp without going deaf).
Once you get a good sound this way you've got a good basic platform from which to build more complex patces, just remember to start simple, every human must learn to crawl before they can walk![]()
noob question but what is the best/cheapest way to connect my imac to an Ultra? I've been looking at midi to USB cables and reading a lot of reviews saying the drivers don't work on mac anymore and they can't find new drivers, or that there are other problems. I don't want that. At the same time I prefer to avoid spending $50ish for a proper midi interface that is only going to be used when I run axe-edit
noob question but what is the best/cheapest way to connect my imac to an Ultra? I've been looking at midi to USB cables and reading a lot of reviews saying the drivers don't work on mac anymore and they can't find new drivers, or that there are other problems. I don't want that. At the same time I prefer to avoid spending $50ish for a proper midi interface that is only going to be used when I run axe-edit
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If I want to record wet/dry would a good way to do it to be to make one row completely dry and pan it's output hard right, and have the processed row's output panned left, then treat them as 2 mono signals going into my DAW (ie pan them both center and mute the dry signal)? The only issue I guess is not having stereo effects on the wet signal.