enc.ny
Member
I'm a lame user of AXE, I'm not afraid to reveal it. Maybe this unit is just not for me. I am an owner of Axe FX-II.
I barely dial any of 'my' sounds - too much tweaking, too many combinations, too many possibilities. Till today I mostly kept a few presets here and there and played them for occasional practice (I mostly play acoustic guitars nowadays anyway). I'm very casual 'in-home' player and mostly bought AXE few years back to never worry about tones anymore.
Downloaded a newest firmware today and ... everything sounds really terrible. My last firmware I think, was 7.02. Everything is so muffed, with some strange delays. I updated Axe-Edit, trying to bypass those delay blocks on random patches - and it doesn't help. I can barely find any preset that sounds OK now... I used to have few different favorite ones like Bogner Blue or Modern Savage or something, some blues presets from Tyler Grund (?), some Fremen stuff... Now they all sound like s##t.
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Well, I don't know. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't understand something. I have such an 'itch' to have all my devices updated all the time, but with AXE its probably the largest flaw to date so far. Of course, when I've had updates before, they've changed the sounds of presets to 'worser' sounding, but this is quite drastic here. I've tried to load up few 9.04 patches here on forum, but those are either do not sound at all, or sound awfully.
1) What am I missing? What do you to keep your sound mostly intact when doing a firmware update?
2) Any good few 9.04 presets/sounds that do not include paid cabs?
3) Any good resources/videos on how to dial sounds/tones, how cabs work, etc.?
Thanks.
I barely dial any of 'my' sounds - too much tweaking, too many combinations, too many possibilities. Till today I mostly kept a few presets here and there and played them for occasional practice (I mostly play acoustic guitars nowadays anyway). I'm very casual 'in-home' player and mostly bought AXE few years back to never worry about tones anymore.
Downloaded a newest firmware today and ... everything sounds really terrible. My last firmware I think, was 7.02. Everything is so muffed, with some strange delays. I updated Axe-Edit, trying to bypass those delay blocks on random patches - and it doesn't help. I can barely find any preset that sounds OK now... I used to have few different favorite ones like Bogner Blue or Modern Savage or something, some blues presets from Tyler Grund (?), some Fremen stuff... Now they all sound like s##t.
...
Well, I don't know. Maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't understand something. I have such an 'itch' to have all my devices updated all the time, but with AXE its probably the largest flaw to date so far. Of course, when I've had updates before, they've changed the sounds of presets to 'worser' sounding, but this is quite drastic here. I've tried to load up few 9.04 patches here on forum, but those are either do not sound at all, or sound awfully.
1) What am I missing? What do you to keep your sound mostly intact when doing a firmware update?
2) Any good few 9.04 presets/sounds that do not include paid cabs?
3) Any good resources/videos on how to dial sounds/tones, how cabs work, etc.?
Thanks.