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I'm not taking the guitar apart.
Try potting the pickups? Wax potting pickups | stewmac.com
laughyouraxeoff has exactly the same problem. I spoke with him on the phone. Is it normal with a real amp? I don't know, I tried a real amp, not with a drive pedal, but I'm not going to turn the amp up to 11 and see if it happens. That would be more a feedback problem of massive speaker volume interacting with the pickups.
Remember this problem happens even with no audible speaker volume.
I'm talking to support now, I'm going to send them the patch and see if they can reproduce.
OK. Frequency is 2720 Hz. in case it matters.
Ok. It comes in instantly, and is quite high pitched, higher than 2.3 fret harmonic on G string. Moving the whammy bar does not affect the pitch.
Now that we think it's microphonic, how is such a thing fixed?
Nickel covered? No idea. It looks like a standard Seymour Duncan pickup with the 6 screws and other 6 that don't have slots in them. It's not a soap bar cover. It's not a SD, just looks like one. It's about twice as expensive as those.
I see you're located in Seattle. I am, as well. I can probably fix it for you. If it's a microphonic pickup, I can pot it for you easily.
I will send you PM with my number.
I'm curious, if you move physically further away from the Axe II does it still exhibit the 'feedback'? Like say 10 feet or so away? I'm just wondering if it's maybe some form of magnetic interaction.
I'm also curious if this behavior would occur on a MK 1 or MK 2 unit.
Here's my squeal patch. All you need to do to reproduce:
1) Import patch to Axe-Fx 2XL.
2) Plug in guitar with passive pickups to front input 1.
3) Turn up volume and tone knobs on guitar to full. Select bridge pickup (happens on all my humbuckers though).
4) Turn OUPUT1 knob to 100% on Axe-Fx.
5) Plug in a speaker to output1 turned very very low - just enough to hear what you're playing (just to prove it's not loud volume-based feedback, you don't actually have to have a speaker plugged in at all).
6) Play something on the guitar, then stop playing. Instant squeal non-stop until you do one of the following:
a) turn down guitar volume a lot
b) turn down guitar tone a lot
c) turn off drive block
d) turn down output1 to about 50% or less.
Thanks for testing. I knew it would happen on other devices, not just mine. What does Mark 1 mean?I got squealing on my Mark 1 and my new XL. I'm waiting on a new guitar for further tests. The pickups I'm using ATM seem to require a lot of gain in my presets but in turn may push them too far = the squeal.
As in Axe FX II Mark 1. (Mark 1 > Mark II > XL) Anyway I think it's just how some guitars are with the AXE FX II, that and of coarse heaps of gain with a high output volume set on the AXE FX. Like you, I would like some type of clarification or work around. Unfortunately I require a good amount of gain for this one guitar I'm using.Thanks for testing. I knew it would happen on other devices, not just mine. What does Mark 1 mean?
Thanks for testing. I knew it would happen on other devices, not just mine. What does Mark 1 mean?
that means it's FREAKING LOUD.