Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.02 Release

I'd guess consistent heating up and cooling down of components (turning on & off) would cause a certain amount of wear & tear, no?

Having said that, I turn mine off when not in use.
 
Zedhed said:
I'd guess consistent heating up and cooling down of components (turning on & off) would cause a certain amount of wear & tear, no?

Having said that, I turn mine off when not in use.
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I still have the original Axe-FX from 2009. Works fine except for the value knob it does not register when turning it 100% of the time. I turned it off and on almost every day for at about 10 years.
 
notalemming said:
I'm not sure this applies to the Axe FXIII.
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That's easy to figure out :) If the answers here are "true", it applies:
  • Is it a complex electronic device?
  • Does it need cooling somewhere in its build?
Fractal are working musician devices. They handle both "always on" and "on-off" approaches exceptionally well. Doesn't mean you need to switch them of for every break you take, but leaving them always on doesn't really have any benefits.
 
Electronic components such as electrolytic capacitors have a lifespan measured in hours.(ex. 10000 hours)
The lifespan of an electrolytic capacitor depends on several factors, including the ambient temperature, the ripple current, and the frequency of operation:
Other components have similar.
People can choose whatever strategy they want but uptime is a factor.
 
I normally only turn it on 45 min a day (Axe3 MK1) but sometimes I'll leave it on for 5 hours but try not to do it so often and I always keep my home relatively cool never run into overheating problems.
 
Wouldn't the challenge with making an amp boost type out of TCPre drive be that: unlike the current amp boost types which are all pretty much stable curves afaik, the TCPre is a widely variable curve boost depending on how the knobs are set - so which curve setting to can into an amp boost type would be a question with variable answers.
 
sprint said:
Wouldn't the challenge with making an amp boost type out of TCPre drive be that: unlike the current amp boost types which are all pretty much stable curves afaik, the TCPre is a widely variable curve boost depending on how the knobs are set - so which curve setting to can into an amp boost type would be a question with variable answers.
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Great response with a logical conclusion. Have a great Sunday
 
sprint said:
Wouldn't the challenge with making an amp boost type out of TCPre drive be that: unlike the current amp boost types which are all pretty much stable curves afaik, the TCPre is a widely variable curve boost depending on how the knobs are set - so which curve setting to can into an amp boost type would be a question with variable answers.
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That's true of all drive types that have tone controls, which i think is all of them.
 
Dave Merrill said:
That's true of all drive types that have tone controls, which i think is all of them.
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maybe I am wrong, but i think the eq curve of drives like tube screamer, treble booster, mid boost, and others we have amp boost types for, are each of a certain shape flavour despite their tone controls' ability to adjust within that flavour (I can adjust the mid boost drive's tone controls but will still end up with some form of mid boost eq, no?). My understanding of TCPre however, is that what makes it a cool pedal is that it can be dialed in to quite widely varying EQ curves that don't really follow any common theme.
 
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You must unlink your blocks from global before you post a preset. Otherwise, no one will be able to see your settings.

Edit: The post above mine that I was referring to has been deleted, so this post looks a bit lost now :laughing:
 
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I have tried formulating this several times. But i dont know how to do it efficiently and i can not share the preset. In pitchblock 2 i try to use viritual capo to get an octave down. This works fine until i hook it up to globlal blocks. When i select link to and load from with the global block + and - is inverted. So that the pitch goes 12 semitones up when i have it set to -12 and vice versa. Is this something others can recreate? It goes back to normal when i remove the global block link.

EDIT: i cant share the preset because it is linked with global blocks. Then no one can see the settings.

@painkiller
You must unlink your blocks from global before you post a preset. Otherwise, no one will be able to see your settings.

Edit: The post above mine that I was referring to has been deleted, so this post looks a bit lost now :laughing:
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EDIT 2: Now its this way even if i turn off global block. Here is a preset with the issue.

EDIT 3: This is only the pitch 2 block. Not pitch 1
 

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