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  1. Dancing Frog

    FM3-Edit 1.01.01

    Since rolling back Axe-Edit to the previous version would knock out support for firmware version 1.02, I rolled the firmware back to version 1.01 instead. Other than having to rebuild all the presets that I built under 1.02, I couldn't get it to freeze, and I rebuilt my main patch from scratch...
  2. Dancing Frog

    FM3-Edit 1.01.01

    I have got the same thing here on a PC. It only started happening after I upgraded to latest software and FM3-Edit version, and only when they are connected. I cannot get the FM3 to freeze on it’s own. I am going to try rolling back FM3-edit and see if I can get it to freeze up.
  3. Dancing Frog

    Any word of a new AX8?

    I hope not. I own a FC6, a FC12, and an AX8. While the FC6 is indeed a very powerful unit for a 6 button unit, I found it to be quite limiting compared to the 11 button AX8. There was a lot more pedal dancing required to make Axe FX III do the same things that I do with an AX8. Something like a...
  4. Dancing Frog

    Pitch block limitation workaround ideas?

    Why are you trying to use a whammy for a bottle slide?
  5. Dancing Frog

    Was there ever a consideration of different OS's for different types of players?

    The question I ask is, is something missing? Are all the letters there in the alphabet of tone? In my mind, they are there. Leave it to the third party developers and the users to spell the specific words. A lot of these amps that are missing have similar architectures to ones that are there...
  6. Dancing Frog

    Post Your Axe-Fx III Rigs Here!

    Bingo. It's a Private Stock Gary Grainger 5.
  7. Dancing Frog

    Post Your Axe-Fx III Rigs Here!

    <Sigh> The LED's on my Furman AR-1215 are going out.
  8. Dancing Frog

    FC-6/12: Any Thoughts On How You'll Configure Yours?

    It depends on whether or not you can program one of the buttons to change to different modes on a hold down like the AX-8. Then, it's just a matter of shrinking my AX-8 layout by two buttons. Buttons 1-4 Scene Cues for scenes 1-4. Button 5 Tempo, Hold for Tuner Button 6 Bank down, Hold to...
  9. Dancing Frog

    Using two guitars for live show

    I use a GXLD. All you have to do is switch the body pack on the guitar you were using off and turn the body pack on the one you picked up on. The receiver and the transmitter find each other.
  10. Dancing Frog

    Anyone notice anything weird with plugging in active electronics?

    This is probably an unanswerable question. I recently bought a Gary Grainger 5 string bass with an active preamp in it. When you plug it into an Axe-FX III or IIXL, the signal goes too loud and then too soft before settling like it's hunting for the right input setting. Initially, I thought it...
  11. Dancing Frog

    So, what's everyone's favourite amp model?

    5F8 Tweed(Keith Urban's '59 High Powered Twin)
  12. Dancing Frog

    Discovery of the Day... 058: 5F8 Tweed

    I can vouch for that. It was practically the only amp that I used for the last theater show which was Return to the Forbidden Planet. With my wood library PRS 509, it nailed the classic 50's and 60's tones.
  13. Dancing Frog

    AX8-Edit + Axe-Edit III parallel

    I am running both simultaneously on a Windows 8 system.
  14. Dancing Frog

    Can the vets lessen the learning curve for noobs?

    When I was still playing a zenTera, I worked through Dave Hunter's Guitar Amp Handbook, so I would have a broader understanding of tube amps. That book is just broad enough to cover most of the amp families that exist, and you learn some history as well which can be fun. Then, you play around...
  15. Dancing Frog

    Marshall 1987x compression issue

    It sounds like you need to lower the Power Supply Sag parameter.
  16. Dancing Frog

    USB cable stuck in port?

    That's probably the least risky option. At least, it's a connector type that you generally use.
  17. Dancing Frog

    USB cable stuck in port?

    Some Apple made cords are defective with the locking features misaligned. I had that happen to my laptop and had to use a pair of pliers to deform the plug enough to remove it. It's a delicate operation, you have to not rotate or pull on the plug as you deform it.
  18. Dancing Frog

    Creative and innovative with the III? Share here

    I supposed those two amps have their A,B,C, and D sides correlated via scenes with the single cab's A, B, C, and D sides and other block sides, or have you done something equally creative with scenic dimension?
  19. Dancing Frog

    New user - how do you use your AX8 live?

    Currently, I am doing a sci-fi musical with 50's and 60's rock classics as the score. After listening to a couple of cast recordings which were all filled with meatheads demonstrating their neoclassical chops in the solo breaks, I decided that I would design all my tones around the models of...
  20. Dancing Frog

    Should I DI the AX8 or go directly to the mixer in a live situation?

    I also use a Radial JDI box for the same reason, but for control as well. Output 1 goes to my FRFR and Output 2 goes to the house through the JDI. That way I have some control over what I hear.
  21. Dancing Frog

    FC Series Controllers Waitlist

    I am more screwed than you.
  22. Dancing Frog

    Show Us Your AX8 Rig! (post your pics)

    This is mine for the current show. Guitar comes in through the Shure GLXD16 receiver and goes out to the Atomic CLR. Venue is practically a concrete bunker, so the onstage volume carries. Only vocals are on house system.
  23. Dancing Frog

    FC-12 plus some Expression pedals - What board will you mount to?

    Since I do theater jobs where I don't know exactly how much room I'll have, I'll leave the components free floating, so I can position them around my music stand.
  24. Dancing Frog

    Help - New to AX8 - FX Loop

    Bingo. Efx with overloaded inputs can do strange things. That's what I was trying to say.
  25. Dancing Frog

    Help - New to AX8 - FX Loop

    Those TRS to mono cables are specially designed humbuster cables, not just any old TRS to mono cable. ;) It should work fine without them, but you may have a ground loop if you run the RV-6 off of an adapter. Humbuster cables are designed to reduce the hum from ground loops.
  26. Dancing Frog

    Help - New to AX8 - FX Loop

    The Boss RV-6 in and outs are set to -20dBu nominally, so I would suspect that your problem might have something to do with that. I'd make sure that Output 2 is set to 0dB, its lowest value, and I'd turn down the FX loop channel to somewhere around -20dB to send -20dB to the FX send. I'd also...
  27. Dancing Frog

    Going wireless worth the switch?

    I was just forced to make the switch to wireless. The director needed me to wander around the stage during a solo. I just couldn't see dragging 30 feet of cable behind me. Been using a Shure GLX-D floor unit for the past couple of weeks. I can't tell the difference between that and the Mogami...
  28. Dancing Frog

    Axe-Fx III wait list: Let us know when you get notified...

    Waitlist 1/29 6:43PM EST Invitation 5/3 1:26PM EST
  29. Dancing Frog

    Cmon people, where the waitlist order thread lol

    The last one I bought was an XL, so I am due for an upgrade. 6:43 pm EST. I'll see it in probably June, about a month after I could use it.
  30. Dancing Frog

    AX8 live - "Eye in the sky" cover

    Great Job. Ian Bairnson has always been one of my favorite guitarists.
  31. Dancing Frog

    Alex Lifeson Hiwatt

    The MXR D+ is central, but the sound has the characteristics of any distortion with a germanium diode like the MXR D+. Not saying that you could use any distortion with a germanium diode; but if you find that the MXR D+ is not cutting it, that's where to look.
  32. Dancing Frog

    AX-8 comparing to AX-FX II

    I do to.
  33. Dancing Frog

    GraphTech Ghost System?

    I had the system built with acousti-phonic and hexpander boards into PRS Private Stock and use it with a VG-99 or a GR-55. I chose the wood to be the same as an Experience P22 which I thought was the best piezo acoustic tone that I heard in my life and was rewarded with an acoustic tone that was...
  34. Dancing Frog

    How many of you work a regular day job?

    I was trained in my other passion, aerospace and ocean engineering, and wound up working for the company that I dreamed about working for as a child. It's not been easy. The creative side of my personality often conflicts with other things. About 10 years ago, I managed to align my job...
  35. Dancing Frog

    Acoustic Treatment

    If it was that easy, there would be no need for the noise control engineering profession.
  36. Dancing Frog

    Problem with AX8 to FOH

    Why not take it out of the engineer's hands entirely and go through a DI box instead? That's what I do and deliver mic level to FOH.
  37. Dancing Frog

    Live backup rig

    Roland GR-55 or Axe-FX II XL. It depends on whether on I am using my virtual guitar set up or not. One can use the amp models and FX in the Roland in a pinch, but they are not as good.
  38. Dancing Frog

    How do you increase your guitars volume when playing a solo?

    A scene that EQ slots the solo into the mix which usually is followed by some sort of appropriate filter boost. The volume knob on a guitar is really a distortion control.
  39. Dancing Frog

    If I but an AX8 will I always be dreaming about an Axe FX?

    I have an AxeFX II, AxeFX IIXL, and an AX8. It really depends on two things. When you play out, do you use multiple amps at once, or gobs of effects? If no, you should be fine with an AX8.
  40. Dancing Frog

    Two Guitars with Axe, Electric and Acoustic

    Of course, you could go the expensive way like I did and run two Axe-FX's in parallel. It does simplify things a bit. I call it the "Oh, just screw it" option.
  41. Dancing Frog

    Extra blocks being added to signal chain I didn't put there!! ???

    V'ger wishes to merge with the creator...
  42. Dancing Frog

    Stroll Down Guitar Processing Memory Lane

    I seem to have moved on parallel paths in a weird order. Guitar Processing/Amp Modelling...Guitar Synthesis/Guitar Modelling ...Roland GR-1+PRS Standard w/ GK-3 Digitech 2112/Mesa Simul 2:90... Hughes and Kettner zenTera Combo...Roland...
  43. Dancing Frog

    Show Us Your AX8 Rig! (post your pics)

    Theater rehearsal tonight. PRS Private Stock by 13 pin cable into Subsonic Filter Box. Filter Box by 13 pin into GR-55. GR-55 into AX8. AX8 into AER Compact 60/2 Vocal Channel about 6 feet behind me. My 13 pin cables are too long.
  44. Dancing Frog

    copying a preset on ax edit

    It is under the preset menu, "save to a new preset number," in AX8 edit. The same could also be said for Axe Edit, but Axe Edit shouldn't work with the AX8. If you are just turning blocks off or on, then you might want to look at scenes instead. Think of scenes as snapshots of the current block...
  45. Dancing Frog

    Getting Ready to pull the Trigger!

    I have bounced between tubes and digital for years. I just went to AX8 from Axe-FX IIXL for my theater gigs. I am really enjoying the advantages of the simplicity of set up. I have powered wedges, but I found for rehearsals I can actually get by plugging into the vocal channel of an AER Compact...
  46. Dancing Frog

    Buying advice please Axe FX2 older model

    I still have an AxeFx II Mark I as a back up, but have since moved on to the XL and the AX8. The II Mark I is still a fully capable unit with the same great tone as the XL and the AX8. It has less memory than the XL and because of that a few less capabilities regarding number of duplicate...
  47. Dancing Frog

    Acoustic through AX8

    With the Variax as with my Taylor 614CE, I don't use acoustic IR's. I use a PEQ with a little bit of low shelving and a mid bump, and sweeten it with a touch of warm reverb. With the Axe-FX, I'd use a Mixer to even out the volume balance; but with the AX8, I use a volume block to compensate for...
  48. Dancing Frog

    Axe Fx just for home: who else does it?

    This year I went from Axe-FX IIXL on stage and at home to just the AX8 on stage and Axe-FX IIXL at home. I just didn't want to haul around the Axe-FX and the MFC. The back was giving me too much trouble. Getting old sucks, but hell if I'm gonna stop.
  49. Dancing Frog

    Alex Lifeson Hiwatt

    I remember seeing them from the 14th row during Permanent Waves. Alex's tone was definitely a HiWatt on face melt which sounded a bit different from the studio tracks. Loud as hell. I had hard time placing the MXR Distortion+ of that time. You could definitely hear the Germanium diode sound in...
  50. Dancing Frog

    Day One AX8 impressions for a Axe II owner

    Well written assessment of the advantages and limitations. I am in same boat. I got an AX8 about a week ago and have an XL with a Mark I as a back up. I'm keeping them all. I was looking for something I could grab as I ran out the door. Still not at the guitar in one hand and amp in the other...
  51. Dancing Frog

    Pick the real amp...

    With my ears, I could only get it down to three or four. I had to look at the waveform. #3 was the oddball which was the real amp. It was more compressed than the others.
  52. Dancing Frog

    Noob Question - AX-8 Routing

    Paranoid is right. The effects loop block accesses output 2. You can set the various switching configurations up as scenes within the same patch, so you don't have to set it up as two different patches for clean and distortion. For example, I am doing something similar in a patch that I am...
  53. Dancing Frog

    A "Rush" Patch Thread

    Those patches are so far out of date that I doubt that they would run on an AXE-FX II using the current firmware. They are pre-Quantum. Many of the patches here are superior to the ones that I came up with years ago when I started the thread.
  54. Dancing Frog

    Just ordered a Furman P-1800 AR for my AxeFx...overkill?

    I use one. I had a Monster go off in the middle of a theater show that I thought had failed, because it had no idiot lights. Then, I stupidly bypassed it to finish the show and was puzzled when the Monster came back on at home. It was then that I realized the Monster had shutdown because of an...
  55. Dancing Frog

    AxeFx: Standard vs AxeFx II

    I have been into digital modellers since the Hughes and Kettner zenTera. I used to say that playing the zenTera was being in the room with a decent example of a classic amp, and that the Axe FX Standard/Ultra was like being in the room with a good example when I first got one. Well, the Axe FX...
  56. Dancing Frog

    Can't get good recording tones, what am I doing wrong?

    Are there any plug in's in the set up? It sounds like there is a reverb on somewhere, but that could be a latency issue as well.
  57. Dancing Frog

    Upgrade from Axe Fx II to Axe FX II XL / XL+?

    I upgraded from an Axe FX II Mark I to and Axe FX XL a couple of years ago. I think the main differences were: 1. More blocks can utilize the X/Y sides. 2. More Cabs are available which includes many of the most popular cabs from the Cab Packs plus many more user cab slots. 3. Two extra banks...
  58. Dancing Frog

    How do you write?

    Sometimes it starts with a melody, and sometimes it starts somewhere else. Make a recording of ideas that pop into your head and review them every once and awhile. Never let theory get in the way. Eventually, you'll collect enough aggregate that you can refine it into something good.
  59. Dancing Frog

    Complete Beginner at EVERYTHING guitar

    I say that a total beginner should begin on whatever gear they have. While good gear doesn't give you talent, bad gear can give you bad habits. I had really crappy gear for the first 8 years and had to unlearn a lot of bad habits that I picked up compensating for problems with tone and lack of...
  60. Dancing Frog

    What made you decide to go Axe FX?

    For me, it's always been a fight between fantasy and necessity in hunt for flexibility and control. Since I bought my first “tube” amp in the mid-80’s, I have bounced between the digital world and the analog world a couple of times. The main problem with the amp I bought, a Fender “The Twin,”...
  61. Dancing Frog

    what the.. "The only Full Tube, 100% Analogue, Modelling Guitar Amplifier"

    The modular design reminds of a Randall RM series amp, only less well packaged. There's more about the Klonz amp out on youtube. However, the more that I hear him talk, the less I think he actually knows about the finer details of amp building.
  62. Dancing Frog

    Hot Crazy Matrix - A Man's Guide to Women

    Welcome to a 2-D worldview. Refreshing.
  63. Dancing Frog

    Poll What FW is on your AxeFX II/XL/XL+ right now?

    Since the poll doesn't really allow you to vote twice, I'll say Quantum on the XL and 19 on the Mark I.
  64. Dancing Frog

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 1.00 Public Beta

    You can make a battery with lemons which theoretically could be used as part of a detonator. Most organic material is extremely flammable in the presence of LOX. So, yeah. Theoretically, it might be possible to build a bomb made out of lemons. Not something I would want to waste my time on. I'd...
  65. Dancing Frog

    Why is De-Phase necessary?

    Spatial Variability. That's the vibroacoustic term at least for the difference in measurements between several pressure transducers or accelerometers. Sound engineers may call it something else. Coherence is the the measurement of how in phase different locations are to the same wave among other...
  66. Dancing Frog

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 1.00 Public Beta

    Well, hmmm? I can hear and feel the granularity in the distortion. I don't think the detail is matched at the quantum level, but you've got something with zero spin tunneling at speeds faster than light.
  67. Dancing Frog

    Fender Strats - your input on the in's & outs of buying, for authentic tone.

    I had a Strat Plus back in 1990 with a rosewood fretboard. It had a nice modern strat tone. I wanted something more vintage sounding and wound up with a '69 Relic, because it was the only one I could get whose neck wasn't sticky. It's a good strat, but I play a PRS 305 prototype for vintage...
  68. Dancing Frog

    Axe-Fx Out to PA XLR: serious noise issues

    Get a Radial JDI Duplex. You can go into the line level XLR inputs off of the AXE-FX II and set the JDI to lift the ground. That should break the loop, and it delivers microphone level to the board. I use one to go into the theater board. It solved the horrible ground loop issues I was having...
  69. Dancing Frog

    You know your amp is too big when...

    You know your amp is too loud when... buildings within a mile are reduced to rubble. the rocket launch site in the next state calls you to turn it down. Greenpeace protests your band at every beachfront gig because of the danger you pose to whales offshore, and you get complaints from IUSS...
  70. Dancing Frog

    Zero Crunch kills

    All I see are blonde, redhead, brunette. I hardly see the code any more.
  71. Dancing Frog

    Cliff is up to something.

    As long as Cliff has amp and pedal models left to G3, there will be new versions of the firmware. This talk about 19 being the end of the road borders on the ridiculous.
  72. Dancing Frog

    What's Your NON-FRACTAL Rig?

    For small gigs, I usually take an Axe FX II XL, one CLR, and an MFC-101. It's about as much trouble as an amp and a pedal board. My back up is an Axe FX-II MK I. My back up to that is a Hughes and Kettner zenTera, and my lightest rehearsal rig is a Vox Tonelab LE. For light tube, I use a...
  73. Dancing Frog

    Has anyone been shocked when going direct to FOH?

    That's what I do. Although my reasons for initially adopting that solution had more to do with those dumb asses who couldn't understand the difference between line and microphone levels than electrical separation. The other benefits became immediately obvious the minute I hooked into the 100...
  74. Dancing Frog

    Is it possible to set tempo on the Axe-FX II via sysex?

    This should be added to the wiki.
  75. Dancing Frog

    New family member... help name her!

    Arpeggio Lydian, Lydia for short Vivace
  76. Dancing Frog

    Axe-Fx II Firmware 19.00 Released

    Love the G3'ed Plus. For the first time, a Plus into a HiWatt sounds exactly like late 70's Rush.
  77. Dancing Frog

    Hobby --> Career

    I tried. I got into a musical relationship with an artist that had recorded an album decades ago and had relatives that were successful in the business, and we put out another one in which I acted as the recording engineer, arranger, and co-producer. I tried flogging that horse for 10 years, but...
  78. Dancing Frog

    Warning!

    Wow....That's a pretty elaborate sabotage that took some time to pull off. There are easier and quicker ways to disable an Axe FX II than that. It's got to be someone who hates that person very much, or who is very, very stupid.
  79. Dancing Frog

    Post a picture of your Guitar Family

    I've had my share of Gibsons and Fenders, but they never stuck around. Most of these guitars were research for the Private Stock anyway. Come to think of it, I forgot one. A '69 Fender Relic Strat.
  80. Dancing Frog

    Post a picture of your Guitar Family

    Believe it or not. Not Pictured: JTV-59 Variax
  81. Dancing Frog

    Frustation! First bad "gig" with the Axe....ever.

    That's a lot of moving parts. It would be really hard to figure the culprit exactly if it is not in your rig given that the "crime" scene essentially vanishes. In the past, I have pulled out a camera after the show's over and taken pictures of the set up and connections just so I can have visual...
  82. Dancing Frog

    Frustation! First bad "gig" with the Axe....ever.

    I have those kind of weird things happen too. You never know what your hooking into a typical church setup. Most of the time, it is pretty cheap gear of questionable quality pushed past the breaking point. It could be a bad cable, interference, or just equipment going bad. Unfortunately, you...
  83. Dancing Frog

    FW19 Good Sounding Metal Zone ?!

    I had one too, and I hated it as well. It was a little too thin and greasy for me. I got it because I was looking for distortion pedal with full EQ control. I sent it to Keeley to get it modded with the Twilight Zone mod. They replaced all the components with all high quality components and...
  84. Dancing Frog

    Alex Lifeson effects

    They make mistakes. They're just really, really good at covering them.
  85. Dancing Frog

    Roland VG-99?

    I have a VG-99. I love how the controls work with my GK and Ghost equipped guitars. You can do all the virtual pick up switching from the guitar which you can't do with the GR-55. Unfortunately, the balance between normal pick up and VG sounds is difficult to achieve on the VG-99, because the...
  86. Dancing Frog

    Alex Lifeson effects

    One of his old Hiwatt cabs turned up at somewhere loaded with Greenbacks. The thing with Alex is that you could use practically any equipment and be right. There were three different live rigs in the period of '76-'81. It's too bad that Mr. Chase wasn't able to model the Marshall 4140 Combo that...
  87. Dancing Frog

    Fletcher-Munson - Give Me Back My Tone You Dirty $#@%!!

    Non-linearities in the stiffness and damping of the speakers.
  88. Dancing Frog

    Hexaphonic Pickups?

    I have used both a built in Graphtech Ghost system with a Hexpander and the Roland GK-3. They both seem to perform equally well. I think how well they do is really dependent on the underlying guitar. My experience is the guitar that is less resonant is better for synth applications. You seem to...
  89. Dancing Frog

    I'm Just Going to Leave This Here

    I would as buy one for that reason as well. The question is how much less horsepower? I notice there are no navigation buttons. It doesn't mean much by itself, but it makes you wonder whether the matrix routing is there. I could see something like an Ax-Fxe Jr with a more intuitive interface for...
  90. Dancing Frog

    Need a tons of advice, I've hit a major plateau!!!!

    I have been playing for almost 40 years now more or less. Going through plateaus is a normal part of progress. I wouldn't worry about it. That is unhelpful and can make a part of your life that you used to enjoy a chore. If you are meant to doodle around, you are meant to doodle around...
  91. Dancing Frog

    Modes, help a theory idiot

    A pretty good idea. There is subset of this that's worth messing around with called "Guide Tones" in jazz improv. Usually, they are considered to be the 7th and the 3rd of the chord, but can be any of the augmentations as well to a lesser degree. They add tension at the chord change. If you play...
  92. Dancing Frog

    Musicians Ears vs. Audience Ears

    It's been shown in cognitive neuroscience that brains of musicians process sound differently than the brains of non-musicians. In the musician's brain, the more analytical parts of the brain are activated in addition to emotional and language centers of the brain which are activated in the audience.
  93. Dancing Frog

    Practicality Vs. Potential: Is Someone Ready for Axe-FX II?

    Go big or go home.... Nothing beats having the best tools especially if you are starting out. You'll avoid learning the stuff that you'll have to unlearn later when you get primo gear, because you're compensating for some shortcomings in the gear unknowingly. While having your mind expanded can...
  94. Dancing Frog

    How many cabs are you using?

    2 for the Fender types, 1 for the Vox types, 1 for the Marshall types.
  95. Dancing Frog

    V9 Cabs, Anyone Use 'Em

    I am completely UR's these days regardless whether I am playing the Axe FX II Mark I or the XL, so heave ho over the side I say.
  96. Dancing Frog

    Why Won't The Axe FX Keep My Beer Cold?

    Because it's not jet powered like this. The jet powered beer cooler
  97. Dancing Frog

    Is the line6 Variax JTV69 a toy or a pro piece?

    I get the same problem. Piezos have known problems with palm muting. They are very sensitive to the amount of pressure and the location of the hand resting on the strings. I wasn't surprised that the processing couldn't fix it. I bought JTV-69 because the Korean JTV's are made by the same...
  98. Dancing Frog

    FAS Modelling Guitar ala Variax?

    There is a company that already makes guitars and basses that have optical pick ups called LightWave systems. (Technology | LightWave Systems) They use an IR emitter, measure the interference pattern that the vibrating string generates, and translate that into a signal. According to them, it...
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