Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.03 Public Beta

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Dave Merrill said:
So spill the beans!
What diodes did you use?
Do we have them or something close?
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Honestly I don't recall cuz a few years have passed and I tried to open up the pedal but there's no code printed on them...

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They surely are germanium, my memory tells me D9E (we have them in the axe) but I'm really not sure about that, all I remember was that even just exchanging their position (4 of the same type I mean) altered the tone quite dramatically, so probably the forward voltage of the diode is more important than the type itself.

Dave Merrill said:
Have you tried your special recipe with the beta?
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Nope... I only have an fm9 :sweatsmile:
 
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DLC86 said:
Honestly I don't recall cuz a few years have passed and I tried to open up the pedal but there's no code printed on them...

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They surely are germanium, my memory tells me D9E (we have them in the axe) but I'm really not sure about that, all I remember was that even just exchanging their position (4 of the same type I mean) altered the tone quite dramatically, so probably the voltage drop of the diode is more important than the type itself.



Nope... I only have an fm9 :sweatsmile:
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Oh well, the one that got away...
 
jlynnb1 said:
I was just telling my wife other day that other than not having the DC30 Jumped in the Axe, the only thing I'd change is the Miller capacitance value in the 800's, they just don't sound right.
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My math is rusty as hell, but based upon my 800, and the 12AX7 that I have where I checked because this made me curious, the Miller capacitance is somewhere between 100 -125 pF. Regardless, and thanks in no small part to my JCM800, not only couldn’t I hear the difference, I can barely hear what people are saying in meetings.
 
jlynnb1 said:
I was just telling my wife other day that other than not having the DC30 Jumped in the Axe, the only thing I'd change is the Miller capacitance value in the 800's, they just don't sound right.
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That's funny...I was jamming last night using one of the Brit 800 models, and my wife walked by and said "That's a pretty decent tone, but in my opinion it could use a tweak to the Miller capacitance value." :D
 
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I haven't really used the pitch block much in a couple of updates. I installed this FW and right out the gate I'm getting a REAL strong warbling using virtual capo, but only seems to happen on parts of the fret board. Triple checked the intonation. Try this very simple preset. Play this simple diad with the g string fretted on the 13th fret and the b string fretted on the 12th fret. It sounds like strong tremolo. Anyone else experience this?
 
jimmynorrisjr said:
I haven't really used the pitch block much in a couple of updates. I installed this FW and right out the gate I'm getting a REAL strong warbling using virtual capo, but only seems to happen on parts of the fret board. Triple checked the intonation. Try this very simple preset. Play this simple diad with the g string fretted on the 13th fret and the b string fretted on the 12th fret. It sounds like strong tremolo. Anyone else experience this?
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I rolled back to 27.02 release, and it’s still happening. I wonder when that started.
 
jimmynorrisjr said:
I haven't really used the pitch block much in a couple of updates. I installed this FW and right out the gate I'm getting a REAL strong warbling using virtual capo, but only seems to happen on parts of the fret board. Triple checked the intonation. Try this very simple preset. Play this simple diad with the g string fretted on the 13th fret and the b string fretted on the 12th fret. It sounds like strong tremolo. Anyone else experience this?
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I haven't had a chance to play recently, but I do have a wishlist item to improve shifting of more harmonically rich intervals and chords. The warbling I think has always been there for anything more harmonically tense than fifths and fourths.
 
Years ago an old man who owned an actual "TV Shop" explained the difference between the "guts" of TV's sold in shops as opposed to the ones made to sell at Wal-Mart type places. Sadly as a society we now buy TV's, cars and even houses and never think about the "guts" and my grandfather always told us "a new oil filter may not be sexy but it sure ain't sexy sitting behind the barn with a rod thru the crankcase"
FAS, the anti-HGTV of musical equipment!!! Thank you for caring about "the guts"!
 
jlynnb1 said:
we don't give our wives enough credit for their discerning tonal palette
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Mine has watched enough YT demo/review's with me to know..."give Leon Todd a few minutes and he'll show you how to replicate it in the AxeFx, right?"
My wife is the anti-GAS girl but she also understands "being blinded by all the shining sparklies" ;)
 
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