Axe-Fx III Firmware 31.04 Public Beta #2

biggness said:
I would vote for either:

Gain Structure: It’s intuitive for players and matches how most people search for tones.

-Clean,
High headroom, minimal breakup. Fender, Roland JC style amps.

-Edge of Breakup / Low Gain
Touch sensitive, blues, roots rock, classic breakup.

-Mid Gain
Classic rock, hard rock, pushed British tones.

-High Gain
Modern rock and metal, saturated distortion.

-Extreme Gain
Death metal, djent, ultra tight or compressed amps.


Or


Era / Design Philosophy: Helps
explains why amps feel and respond differently.

-Vintage American
Tweed, blackface, early clean platforms.

-Vintage British
Plexi, JTM, early Vox.

-Hot-Rodded Classics
Modded Marshalls, Soldano era designs.

-Modern High-Gain
Multi-channel, tight low end designs.

-Boutique / Experimental
Dumble, Trainwreck, rare or niche designs.
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i go with the clean to extreme gain
 
biggness said:
I would vote for either:

Gain Structure: It’s intuitive for players and matches how most people search for tones.

-Clean,
High headroom, minimal breakup. Fender, Roland JC style amps.

-Edge of Breakup / Low Gain
Touch sensitive, blues, roots rock, classic breakup.

-Mid Gain
Classic rock, hard rock, pushed British tones.

-High Gain
Modern rock and metal, saturated distortion.

-Extreme Gain
Death metal, djent, ultra tight or compressed amps.


Or


Era / Design Philosophy: Helps
explains why amps feel and respond differently.

-Vintage American
Tweed, blackface, early clean platforms.

-Vintage British
Plexi, JTM, early Vox.

-Hot-Rodded Classics
Modded Marshalls, Soldano era designs.

-Modern High-Gain
Multi-channel, tight low end designs.

-Boutique / Experimental
Dumble, Trainwreck, rare or niche designs.
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I def. would not like this because it’s arbitrary.
Your proposal could be realized through the use of Tags though.
All this has been discussed repeatedly in the past here on the forum.
 
yek said:
I def. would not like this because it’s arbitrary.
Your proposal could be realized through the use of Tags though.
All this has been discussed repeatedly in the past here on the forum.
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Are you saying if something has been discussed in the past then it is no longer welcomed for discussion in the present?
 
@FractalAudio Pinch harmonics are definitely better and less digital when hit on the lower frets. If I use the Pitch Block to drop down a half step on my guitar tuned in E Standard they get digital sounding if I hit them on the 10th fret of the e String. Don't ring out at all if I'm on the 15th fret. Turn the pitch block off and they come alive again. Definitely improved from where it was in v31.03. Just noting there is room to increase the frequency range in the future.
 
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millman said:
@FractalAudio Pinch harmonics are definitely better and less digital when hit on the lower frets. If I use the Pitch Block to drop down a half step on my guitar tuned in E Standard they get digital sounding if I hit them on the 10 fret of the e String they begin sounding digital. Don't ring out at all if I'm on the 15th fret. Turn the pitch block off and they come alive again. Definitely improved from where it was in v31.03. Just noting there is room to increase the frequency range in the future.
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I would use a momentary control switch to bypass the pitch block just for the artificial harmonics.
 
yek said:
Grouping all Fenders, Marshalls, Mesas, Bogners, Diezels etc. by manufacturer alias would already be great.
I would not be in favor of other categories like Class A.
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even Axe Edit "only" grouping of saved blocks would be super helpfull. even just creating folders to group blocks would be fantastic....
 
JoKeR III said:
Yep, came to say the same thing. I experiment a lot with the different reverb models. Having them grouped saves some time looking through the list to find the names using the same algorithm. Thank you!!
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Does this mean that for example, all plates are by each other, all cloud reverbs are by each other, halls are by each other, etc. in the Axe Edit menu?
 
yek said:
I def. would not like this because it’s arbitrary.
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^THIS^

Many amps cover the range of clean to metal well, especially multiple-channel/switching amps. Trying to group them by a genre controlled by the position of a knob, or by the marketing hype of the company, or the perceived use of a particular amp by one person, wouldn't work well.

Grouping by tags would allow multiple ways of looking at them, but I think we'd need the filtering modified to allow setting amps to have multiple tags. And, because tags are only visible in Edit, this wouldn't provide a solution for anyone trying to build a preset from the front-panel and needing to quickly locate a particular amp by a tag they set.

biggness said:
Are you saying if something has been discussed in the past then it is no longer welcomed for discussion in the present?
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Discussions had in the past can contain useful insight into the problem and why that hasn't been "fixed". Repeating the requests without knowing the background and history doesn't move the discussion forward, it just repeats the same request. That is frustrating to those who participated previously and those who've heard it before and "duly-noted" it in the to-do list for a future generation.

(Re)reading those past threads and then making a suggestion based on it/them can help move the discussion forward.
 
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Greg Ferguson said:
^THIS^

Many amps cover the range of clean to metal well, especially multiple-channel/switching amps. Trying to group them by a genre controlled by the position of a knob, or by the marketing hype of the company, or the perceived use of a particular amp by one person, wouldn't work well.

Grouping by tags would allow multiple ways of looking at them, but I think we'd need the filtering modified to allow setting amps to have multiple tags. And, because tags are only visible in Edit, this wouldn't provide a solution for anyone trying to build a preset from the front-panel and needing to quickly locate a particular amp by a tag they set.


Discussions had in the past can contain useful insight into the problem and why that hasn't been "fixed". Repeating the requests without knowing the background and history doesn't move the discussion forward, it just repeats the same request. That is frustrating to those who participated previously and those who've heard it before and "duly-noted" it in the to-do list for a future generation.
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I get the value of historical context, but revisiting the same requests is not automatically unproductive. Repetition can be a signal that the issue still matters and still is not meeting users’ needs, not that people failed to read old threads. Forums are active communities, not static archives, and new users arrive with different workflows who run into the same friction points independently.

Past discussions explain why something was difficult or deprioritized at the time, but those constraints are not fixed forever. Hardware improves, firmware evolves, and development priorities change. What was not feasible or worthwhile years ago might be reasonable now. If topics are never raised again, “duly noted” can quietly turn into “forgotten.”

There is also a difference between understanding why something has not been done and agreeing that it should stay that way. Knowing the history does not obligate everyone to accept the outcome indefinitely. Repeating a request, especially with new examples or clearer framing, can refine the problem and add useful signal rather than noise.

Frustration exists on both sides. Long-time contributors may be tired of seeing the same ideas, but newer users can feel dismissed when told their experience is old news. A healthy forum balances institutional memory with continued pressure. That tension is often how progress actually happens.

And yes, I get that this can be even more annoying for people who practically live on the forum. I understand that feeling, and I say this as someone who still loves Fractal Audio after all these years. At the same time, there may be a brilliant mind participating now who was not around before. Someone who would never have thought to raise the request themselves, but who might see it and suddenly have a genuinely clever solution. Shutting the door on repeated topics risks missing that kind of spark.
 
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