"I tried a few of these. Bypassed all the blocks except amp+cab and ensured the mic preamp was disabled in the cab block. This isolated the clipping to the amp block. Resetting the amp block fixed it."
I'd really like to, but I'm not buying that. i only even not long ago found out dyna cabs existed and like JUST found out about the preamp section of the cab blocks so i had never touched that until like a week ago? in fact i don't think i even touched them in anything i uploaded to axe change, and it still did this with legacy cabs. Are you saying you ALSO got the same kind of fizz/rattle/crackle with that preset until you went with a stock untouched default amp block? because I ALWAYS got that sound it just may get exacerbated by some of the other things I did to make it more high gain/shreddy. And i see that you are a professional musician who tours and seems to know their stuff i only think you might not be as familiar with what i was going for with these tones possibly (i don't know perhaps you are familliar with death metal, it certainly didn't appear like it, and i love all types of stuff including probably stuff you play and whatnot)
"They were also way too loud. When recording digitally via USB/SPDIF/AES, turning up the preset volume will not help your SNR or affect it in any way. Metering at -10dB to -18dB in your DAW is just fine. I use the amp block level parameter to control the overall volume of my presets."
yes, exactly like i warned "just be warned they are mostly LOUD (i had to turn them WAY down to get these recordings without bombing out in the red like crazy)" as I'm aware the presets as are are WAY too absurdly loud, it was just gratifying playing it that loud in the room but like i said every time i'd record them i'd have to keep turing it down and down and down until it was no longer in the red, which is why i was so psyched you mentioned the level tool and i now love that thing to death. So thank you for that.
"For the mics position , the more you are on the grill, the more it amplifies the high frequencies too. So this + this + this …"
I've never seen anyone NOT put at least one mic on or basically on the grill, you just generally do not want that mic dead on the cone, and like i said i've also worked in studios as it appears you have and so you are mist likely familiar when getting sounds you move the mic around until you find where it sounds best, which is usually just off of the cone, many people mark it with tape and such, they don't pull ALL mic's at least 6" away from the grill, if they use multiple mic's on one guitar track they very likely will walk around the room covering one ear until they find where it sounds best and put a mic (on an ear level mic stand) THERE, but i have never ONCE heard ANY engineer/producer say "oh no you don't want to put the mic near the grill that will make high frequencies freak out and you'll get a buzzy fizzy rattle/crackle. because this doesn't happen. and yes i get one thing plus another thing exacerbates the issue, but i did not think i was doing anything to that greatly contribute to it and like i said it happens when i do NOTHING even so i'm not buying i'm just a moron who can't dial in a preset and that's why my presets crackle, they do it with the stock presets that CAME with the axe fx even and i didn't make those.
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i turned the input level ALL the way down on the axe fx
This is unnecessary. Follow the instructions in the manual for this parameter i.e. adjust it so the meter "tickles the red" when you play hard."
I did that because the big guy kept saying i'm doing something to clip before the axe fx i.e. the axe fx has nothing to do with it i'm doing something to hit it too hard, when i'm doing nothing, it's just going guitar straight into the axe fx and i posted the original pretty low input level but for the same of it as it was the only thing i could do about hitting the device too hard turned the input level all te way down yet it still had that fizzy crackle. one of the problems of talking to several people about the same issue i'm not only replying to one.
Again thank you all for the useful suggestions and i'll try what i can but i've about had it for today and am a bit fatigued trying to get to the bottom of this particular problem so i will address it another day. Thanks!
