Paulg2uk
Power User
Hey guys,
I'm a new Axe owner as of last night. I managed to get a few hours with the axe and have connected it thru my studio monitors. So far I'm really impress some great tones in there. Later as everyone went to sleep I plugged in my headphones and continued jamming. Even the quality of the tones sounded the same through my headphones. I'm happy to say the Axe will replace my crappy old Personus audio interface, as i can now jam along with iTunes with the Axe.
So far I'm very happy. The plan is to eventually use the axe live as well but of course I have a few questions to ask. Sorry if these have been answered already I figured it was easier to ask you all via this post.
My first question is about input levels surprise surprise lol. My input level is set fairly low around 3% and my output 1 level is set to just under 50%. I'm just checking if that's normal? I had some clipping on the input but as soon as I lowered the input level all is steady on the amber lights. I do get an output 1 clip on a couple of factory presets I figured that can be adjusted within the preset to compensate?
My second question is regarding a clean preset. I've noticed on some of the amp sims even though its a clean preset like the double verb for example I get a slightly overdriven sound when changing pickup selections. I'm guessing this is probably a combination of the guitar's pickups and just a case of lowering the amp's input trim and raising its actual level control?
My last question for now is i plan on eventually connecting up an atomic wedge to output 2 and have output 1 go to the FOH. Do I just add an FX Loop block to the start of the chain in axe edit to do this? I still want all my effects coming through FOH and output 2 for monitoring.
That's it for now guys I hope you can help me out.
Cheers
Paul
I'm a new Axe owner as of last night. I managed to get a few hours with the axe and have connected it thru my studio monitors. So far I'm really impress some great tones in there. Later as everyone went to sleep I plugged in my headphones and continued jamming. Even the quality of the tones sounded the same through my headphones. I'm happy to say the Axe will replace my crappy old Personus audio interface, as i can now jam along with iTunes with the Axe.
So far I'm very happy. The plan is to eventually use the axe live as well but of course I have a few questions to ask. Sorry if these have been answered already I figured it was easier to ask you all via this post.
My first question is about input levels surprise surprise lol. My input level is set fairly low around 3% and my output 1 level is set to just under 50%. I'm just checking if that's normal? I had some clipping on the input but as soon as I lowered the input level all is steady on the amber lights. I do get an output 1 clip on a couple of factory presets I figured that can be adjusted within the preset to compensate?
My second question is regarding a clean preset. I've noticed on some of the amp sims even though its a clean preset like the double verb for example I get a slightly overdriven sound when changing pickup selections. I'm guessing this is probably a combination of the guitar's pickups and just a case of lowering the amp's input trim and raising its actual level control?
My last question for now is i plan on eventually connecting up an atomic wedge to output 2 and have output 1 go to the FOH. Do I just add an FX Loop block to the start of the chain in axe edit to do this? I still want all my effects coming through FOH and output 2 for monitoring.
That's it for now guys I hope you can help me out.
Cheers
Paul
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