eNVy
New Member
Hello all!
I've had my my Ax8 for 2 months now and I've loved every moment of it (except for the conversion rate of USD to CAD).
It's come to my attention that there may be an irregularity with my noise floor, more-so with my high gain presets. There is a hum in mid-high range frequencies when gating is turned off and is solved (sort of) by adding an input gate at -60dB with a Ratio of 2.7-3.2.
When the input gate is added, it resolves the noise floor hum, but it bleeds through when palm muting and sustaining notes/chords.
It is present in Clean Tones as well, but not as much.
This is usually causing me trouble in both studio and live situations. While I can EQ it out, I'm taking away a lot of my mid range dynamics in the process, which affects my tone. Heavy gating (-30dB) resolves this problem entirely, but it again takes out a lot of my dynamics and kills my sustained notes.
I'm wondering if anyone would have any idea as to why this is happening, whether it be equipment-sided or not. I do have the same problem when using Amplitube (VSTi Amp Emulator) and I'm guessing it would have to do with either my guitar, audio interface, or cable.
Please see the video below as a demonstration of what is happening.
I've had my my Ax8 for 2 months now and I've loved every moment of it (except for the conversion rate of USD to CAD).
It's come to my attention that there may be an irregularity with my noise floor, more-so with my high gain presets. There is a hum in mid-high range frequencies when gating is turned off and is solved (sort of) by adding an input gate at -60dB with a Ratio of 2.7-3.2.
When the input gate is added, it resolves the noise floor hum, but it bleeds through when palm muting and sustaining notes/chords.
It is present in Clean Tones as well, but not as much.
This is usually causing me trouble in both studio and live situations. While I can EQ it out, I'm taking away a lot of my mid range dynamics in the process, which affects my tone. Heavy gating (-30dB) resolves this problem entirely, but it again takes out a lot of my dynamics and kills my sustained notes.
I'm wondering if anyone would have any idea as to why this is happening, whether it be equipment-sided or not. I do have the same problem when using Amplitube (VSTi Amp Emulator) and I'm guessing it would have to do with either my guitar, audio interface, or cable.
Please see the video below as a demonstration of what is happening.
Equipment:
- Guitar: ESP LTD EC-400VF (Seymour Duncan JB [Bridge]/'59 [Neck])
- Audio Interface: Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 1st Gen (Ax8 connected with XLR [Stereo], set to 48kHz Sample Rate)
- Ax8 (Hardware input gate set to -6dB)
- Cable: Fender FG10BSL Custom Shop Performance Cable