Alan Benjamin
Inspired
Greetings,
Although I've had my AX8 for over a year now, I haven't had a chance to play out with it yet (due to the fact that my prog band, Advent, lost our bassist beforehand and we have yet to find a replacement). I just started using my AX8 for recording (for Advent's upcoming single and also a guest appearance on an Italian prog project release due out later this year) and have adjusted pretty well to recording with the unit.
Now that this recording phase is over, I've been routing the AX8 back into my pair of Alto TS-212s and rediscovered how brittle the tone was in this configuration (though moving the Alto's back to the floor helped a little, though boosted the bass a bit, as expected). As I was just invited to a jam this Sunday, I've been trying to get my rig as close to "live ready" as possible and, on a lark, decided to verify that AX-8 Edit would allow me to set the global EQ (on output 1 in my case) and, once I verified this worked, I ended up completely pulling down the lowest (31 Hz) and highest (16 kHz) bands down completely--and, based on a very quick sampling of my favorite presets (factory and self-built), everything seems to sound so much better.
With this in mind, I'm wondering if anyone else has had success with this approach and/or has suggestions about any further easy tweaks that might be worth investigating.
Thanks and take care,
Alan
Although I've had my AX8 for over a year now, I haven't had a chance to play out with it yet (due to the fact that my prog band, Advent, lost our bassist beforehand and we have yet to find a replacement). I just started using my AX8 for recording (for Advent's upcoming single and also a guest appearance on an Italian prog project release due out later this year) and have adjusted pretty well to recording with the unit.
Now that this recording phase is over, I've been routing the AX8 back into my pair of Alto TS-212s and rediscovered how brittle the tone was in this configuration (though moving the Alto's back to the floor helped a little, though boosted the bass a bit, as expected). As I was just invited to a jam this Sunday, I've been trying to get my rig as close to "live ready" as possible and, on a lark, decided to verify that AX-8 Edit would allow me to set the global EQ (on output 1 in my case) and, once I verified this worked, I ended up completely pulling down the lowest (31 Hz) and highest (16 kHz) bands down completely--and, based on a very quick sampling of my favorite presets (factory and self-built), everything seems to sound so much better.
With this in mind, I'm wondering if anyone else has had success with this approach and/or has suggestions about any further easy tweaks that might be worth investigating.
Thanks and take care,
Alan