I don't want to pull this thread off-topic, but can anyone perhaps point me in the right direction regarding the scene controllers as described in this context? From my limited experience within AX8 Edit, there seem to be two (2) scene controllers.....I am not sure what they do......but there are (8) "Scenes: per Preset, so....? I am thinking that this must have been discussed perviously....?If you attach scene controller 1 to the gain and scene controller 2 to the cab level it is very easy to go from completely clean to the heaviest metal distortion not only without a gap but completely smooth...
I don't want to pull this thread off-topic, but can anyone perhaps point me in the right direction regarding the scene controllers as described in this context? From my limited experience within AX8 Edit, there seem to be two (2) scene controllers.....I am not sure what they do......but there are (8) "Scenes: per Preset, so....? I am thinking that this must have been discussed perviously....?
And now, back to our regularly-scheduled programming.....
I'm trying to like these but they seem dark. Don't get me wrong, I'd buy a real Friedman without hesitation if I was looking for a real amp. I'm a Marshall guy and real Friedman's do that so well. Heck a lot of amp do that. But the Friedman amp models feel or sound a little darker and less dynamic trying to get to clean with my guitar vol. knob. I'm also saying this without spending much time trying to dial one in, so my opinion is based on a limited effort. They sound awesome full out. I just prefer a clean to mean via my guitar volume. It's an old habit that I can't get past.
Smittefar,
Thank you very much for sharing the video. That was most kind of you.
I wish could say I understood ANY of that video but alas, I cannot at this time. My original question was simply to ask why there was a "Controller 1" and a "Controller 2," but I now see (not that I even understand my original question) that this entire "Edit Modifier" thing is very deep and very complex. I had no idea this was so. I don't think the manual ever mentioned pushing that little button inside of the knobs -- and I had no idea this was a thing until I watched that video. Now I see the "Edit Modifer" screen, with graphs that somehow apply to three scenes simultaneously, while the menu continues to say only Scene 1, and .......oh, heck, I don't understand this well enough to even be to form a meaningful question.
I appreciate everyone's help and guidance -- the people on this forum are the AX8's greatest asset -- I really mean that. I am, however, getting too frustrated. I almost seem to be spending more time/energy trying to master the AX8 than I am playing guitar, and I just don't think I am enjoying the music as much as I should. Time to step away for a bit. Thanks again to everyone for their help.
My original question was simply to ask why there was a "Controller 1" and a "Controller 2," but I now see (not that I even understand my original question) that this entire "Edit Modifier" thing is very deep and very complex.
ETOLKIEN,.......I propose you a small exercise:
take any preset that you don't care for practice, right click in scene 1 button and select "copy current scene", now go to scene2, right click again in scene 2 and select "paste to current scene". Click save. Now you have two identical scenes.
As Leon said, go to the amp block, right click in "input gain", the modifier window appears: don't panic! You only have to set "Source" to scene1 (it says scene1, but in fact is Scene controller1 and applies to all 8 scenes), now you can close the window. In the video he is touching min/max values, but we want full range so we left all the modifier window knobs by default.
Now push the "controllers" button (11:03 in the Smittefar video) and go to the "scenes" page, you have controller1 that contains eight knobs, here you set the percentage of input gain for each scene. To get started you can set scene1 at 50% and scene2 at 100%. Click save.
Now if you switch between scene1/scene2 you can go from half to full input gain...nice!
We're on the good path!ETOLKIEN,
Thank you very much for the helpful suggestions. I went ahead and created two identical Scenes (just amp and cab) in Scene 1 and Scene 2 of a Preset I don't use. I now realize that some of the amp knobs have the little "modifier" icon inside of them. This allows one to access -- I think -- some additional parameters pertaining to the control. In trying to work your suggested experiment, I selected the Input Drive control to adjust.
One mistake I had been making was -- since I am using a Mac -- I had forgotten about the need to also press down the (computer keyboard) "Control" key while pressing the mouse to initiate a "Right-click." Doing that now brings up the little edit screen for that modifier (in this case, the Input Drive). So.....I feel like some progress has been made. Thank you.
1. While the "Input Drive" -- as a single knob -- seems pretty obvious and straight-forward to me, once I bring up the modifier screen for that same control, there are eight (8) different knobs (Min, max, slant, scale, etc.), and none of them seem to work the same way that the single "Input Drive" knob did. I feel like I am missing something here......I just wanted to adjust the Input Drive.
2. If I do adjust some of those knobs with the editing window, I still cannot save to a single Scene. Hitting the only "Save" button I see saves the entire Preset, which then over-writes whatever I did on the other Scene.
leonAnything clean to crunchy - AC20.
Crunchy and beyond - Atomica.