karmar
Inspired
Imagine an EQ in a chain AFTER a volume pedal. When the pedal is backed off, the signal is reduced into the filter and - since the signal voltage is divided up into discrete steps at digitization, the filter does not have as much data/information to process - a resolution problem. Even if the various numeric values are simply reduced digitally, you end up with less resolution in your signal after the volume pedal because the signal is limited by its bit depth - when your volume pedal gets REALLY small you are down to 1 bit of resolution you are trying to process and extract frequency information! So I am wondering if, in the AxeFx internal processes, does the signal actually get reduced in size when you put a volume pedal in a chain - or does the Axe retain all of the information in the full sized signal, and apply an analog volume reduction at the point of digital to analog conversion. My bet is that they retain the full information for processing precision - but I am curious how they actually do it.... If they do it like I think, then it doesnt matter whether the pedal is before or after the EQ - but if the numbers actually get reduced going into the EQ processor as the chain diagram suggests, then I need to keep my volume pedal as the last thing in my chain! (otherwise the quality of the EQ - or reverb or whatever - suffers from resolution deficiency downstream in the chain when you have a low level from your volume pedal)