Enzee
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I had a strange issue last night on stage with my Axe-FX II and MFC-101...
Intermittently and without reason, my presets were changing as I played. I was not tapping on the MFC-101 or anything. I would be playing and it would switch to another preset. I would switch it back and a few minutes later it would switch to a different present in that bank. Then it would just cycle through the whole bank of 5 presets. I hit the tuner and it changed of of my pedal presets.
Before long I stopped the show to take a few minutes with my tech the preset stayed the same, but the gain kept changing in the preset (it actually sounded like it was changing presets with nothing changing on the MFC-101 screen). I stopped the show and we rebooted the Axe-FX and it was good for the rest of the show, but wow it was scary.
I have used this unit every day for multiple hours without this sort of occurrence.
We are wondering if it might be the CAT5 cable I am using. Could it have been stepped on hard and something in the wire made it "short" out? I will test this with another cable tomorrow, but the cable that I used tonight has worked great before. It is a 50 foot one.
I have the FW 9.0 and the MFC-101 is the latest. I have not upgraded to 9.01 yet.
No MIDI was hooked up other than the CAT5 cable. I was using a Mission SP-1 for wah (CC 16 for wah and 17 for the toe switch). One XLR output was going to the house and one unbalanced 1/4" out was going to our in ear monitors.
Could it be the metal sleeves out of the SP-1 were touching each other and triggering something? (just a crazy thought, but they are right angle plugs...)
Any thoughts on what might cause something like this?
Intermittently and without reason, my presets were changing as I played. I was not tapping on the MFC-101 or anything. I would be playing and it would switch to another preset. I would switch it back and a few minutes later it would switch to a different present in that bank. Then it would just cycle through the whole bank of 5 presets. I hit the tuner and it changed of of my pedal presets.
Before long I stopped the show to take a few minutes with my tech the preset stayed the same, but the gain kept changing in the preset (it actually sounded like it was changing presets with nothing changing on the MFC-101 screen). I stopped the show and we rebooted the Axe-FX and it was good for the rest of the show, but wow it was scary.
I have used this unit every day for multiple hours without this sort of occurrence.
We are wondering if it might be the CAT5 cable I am using. Could it have been stepped on hard and something in the wire made it "short" out? I will test this with another cable tomorrow, but the cable that I used tonight has worked great before. It is a 50 foot one.
I have the FW 9.0 and the MFC-101 is the latest. I have not upgraded to 9.01 yet.
No MIDI was hooked up other than the CAT5 cable. I was using a Mission SP-1 for wah (CC 16 for wah and 17 for the toe switch). One XLR output was going to the house and one unbalanced 1/4" out was going to our in ear monitors.
Could it be the metal sleeves out of the SP-1 were touching each other and triggering something? (just a crazy thought, but they are right angle plugs...)
Any thoughts on what might cause something like this?