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  1. DrNick

    Something happy for a change...

    My December habit of getting some brief sketches up on YouTube as spilled into January. This one is brief and (oddly for me) happy! Most of my stuff is a very different flavor of moody. There are a number of layers, which get a bit muddied to me. I tried to use tricks of EQ and panning and...
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    Spacey and heavy

    Somehow everything I write these days has these two flavors. I'm sure there's a genre for this stuff, but I can't keep track of the subgenera of metal. Anyway, each December I find the time to record and post a few things on YouTube. Only audio (and some artsy still images) this year. All...
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    AxeFx + pajamas

    I decided to show off my new seasonal pajamas (my wife got matching pajamas for the whole family) in a play though of quick sketch.
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    I made some videos.

    I decided to use my break to start to learn video production, and created a YouTube channel devoted to play-through videos for stuff I've written. It's all recorded with my trusty AxeFx II mark II! If you'd like, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC80E2x2YYNM9fRTQMz1PT6g Thus far...
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    Compressor Questions

    The new optical compressor has reminded me to post a couple questions that have been kicking around in my head. The first is whether there are any standard practices about when or why one would use one type over another. Here, by "type" I mean pedal vs. optical, etc. in the CMP block, but also...
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    Reverb Types Info

    I have often thought that it would be great to have a brief account somewhere (on the wiki, I suppose) of the various reverb types. Some of them are self-explanatory (like 'Large Room') but I'm not sure what to make of 'Rec Studio A' or 'North Church.' A little background info on these would...
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    Presonus Eureka

    A friend of mine has a Presonus Eureka preamp that he's quite fond of. We're doing some recording at my place and would rather not have to move it back and forth. So, I'm wondering if its character can be reproduced to good effect in the AxeFx. Does anyone have experience with this preamp (or...
  8. DrNick

    Dual mono reverb?

    Is there a way to run the reverb block in dual mono? I know how to achieve this with the delay block, since there is a "Dual" option on the "Config" page, but I can't seem to figure it out with the reverb block. I've read in the manual and on this forum that setting the Stereo Width to 0...
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    power amp vs. preamp breakup characteristics

    I was playing with a patch earlier that is pretty clean, but just on the edge of breaking up a bit when I play hard (with high-output active pickups, in my case). I was toying with the drive and master volume to experiment with this breakup and wasn't so clear on what I was hearing. The...
  10. DrNick

    Port City IR

    I've been meaning to post this for a while. I shot a bunch of IRs of my Port City OS Wave 2x12 (loaded with WGS Veteran 30s) using an SM57. There's a blend I made with CabLab that I use a lot, so I thought I'd pass it on. This is my first and only experience shooting IRs, so I would welcome...
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    Axe-Edit flashes/blinks in and out in tuner mode

    I've been meaning to post about this for a month or so now. A couple versions ago, Axe-Edit started displaying this odd behavior of randomly flashing/blinking in and out while in tuner mode. I'm currently running Axe-Edit 3.1.9 on Mac OS X 10.10.2. Is anyone else experiencing this?
  12. DrNick

    Odd crossover behavior

    I'm experiencing something I don't understand with the crossover (XVR) block. Suppose I have XVR at the beginning of my signal chain with all levels set to zero, lows panned hard left and highs panned hard right. If I feed this into an AMP block with input set a "Sum L+R" then what I...
  13. DrNick

    General tips for dealing with different pickups

    Hi all. I've dialed in most of my patches around a couple guitars with EMGs. I have another guitar with SD Blackouts, and I find that the high gain patches sound really harsh and metallic with this guitar. I could, of course, just rebuild more or less from scratch, but I wondered if the...
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    idea for getting some IR characters out of a real cab

    After doing the FRFR thing for a while, I got a Matrix amp and Port City OS 2x12. Great cab, by the way. It's fantastic for most of what I do. But... I'm curious about trying to get the character of some of the factory cab IRs through the Port City. Not trying to nail anything, just get...
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    reverb guitar in a distant room sound...?

    This might be oddly specific, but I have been listening to Plini's "Selenium Forest" a lot recently. At the beginning of the (title track) song, the guitar sounds like it's in a distant room or something. It's kind of muffled, but retains some articulation. I've been trying to reproduce it...
  16. DrNick

    Feature Request: no mouse wheel scroll choice

    The Axe-Edit (3.1.4) preferences allow you to change the orientation of the wheel scroll. I'd like the option to simply turn off wheel scroll. My motivation is that I have a wireless apple magic mouse (no physical wheel, just a touch sensitive top), and it has a nasty habit of making minor...
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    Another questions about the compressor block - buzz?

    As I've been playing with clean patches (beginning) with the compressor block (set to studio), I've noticed that when a very low note is plucked and let ring, a strange "buzz" is introduced at some point as the note fades. I've narrowed this down to the compressor block in that this oddness...
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    Compression settings to help tapping pop out (cleans)

    Hopefully the subject line does a passable job of stating what I'm after. I'd like to do some tapping-over-chord sort of stuff with a nice clean tone, and I understand compression can be helpful in getting the tapped notes to pop out a bit and assert themselves over the underlying chord...
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    another mystery noise...

    Based on Cliff's advice in a thread yesterday, I've changed the signal topology around. Now I've got a noise I'm wondering if anyone recognizes as common in a similar situation. The (new) setup: guitar into the front of the Axe-Fx, wet guitar out of OUT1 into an interface, dry DI guitar...
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    Tuner is way off

    After some confusion wherein I kept being convinced that other people were tuned sharp, I eventually realized that I was quite flat, and it was the Axe-Fx tuner's fault! I'm not sure what's going on. The calibration is set to 440Hz, "use offsets" is off (and all the offsets are set to 0...
  21. DrNick

    Brootalz questions

    Two quick questions: What was the tonal impact of the change made to the FAS Brootalz amp in 17.02? I love the character of this amp, but I find it almost unusably loud, even at moderate gain (especially with the bright switch on). The background noise between notes, and even during some...
  22. DrNick

    amp high cut vs. blocking filter after amp

    This is a companion question to my previous one about EQ. I'm still thinking through EQing locations, etc. I have found that some amps (high gain especially) are quite harsh in the high-end through my amp/cab setup (no CAB block but PA modeling on). As a result I've been putting a low pass...
  23. DrNick

    Approaches to EQing

    This is a big topic, and I've already read a number of takes on it, but I'd like to open the floor to some more. There are tons of places/ways to EQ in the Axe-Fx, and I find it a little overwhelming. There are the main EQ knobs in the AMP block, filters in the AMP block, graphic EQ in the...
  24. DrNick

    restoring a particular amp default value

    Hello all. This seems like it should be well-documented, but I couldn't find it. Apologies if I've missed the obvious. Is there a way to restore a particular knob/switch to its default value in AXE-EDIT? Double-clicking puts it at some value, but it doesn't seem always to be the default...
  25. DrNick

    Axe-Fx Wiki Tips and Tricks #1.4

    I ran across this page and tried out 1.4 with some bizarre results. The filter effect is way too pronounced to have the desired effect of simply tightening up the low end. This led me to wonder if some things (envelope controller parameters, etc.) had changed since this was posted, and it...
  26. DrNick

    Vexing EM interference

    This has nothing to do with the Axe-Fx (hence "The Lounge"), but I need some ideas and this seems as knowledgable a crowd as any. Yesterday I noticed a new and annoying noise when playing my guitar. It was highly dependent on the orientation of my guitar, and this and other details have...
  27. DrNick

    Recording a DI with a different interface

    Until recently, I was using my Axe-Fx as an audio interface, in which case it was easy to record a DI along with the main output. I have recently acquired an interface (Scarlett 18i20) for various reasons, and I'm not so clear how to achieve this now. My DAW (Logic Pro X) only seems to be able...
  28. DrNick

    AxeChange feature request

    I have no idea if this is the right place to ask this - apologies if not. I think that it would be really nice if the AxeChange were searchable by AMP type. This is perhaps unfeasible given the say the site is setup, and perhaps low on the relevant people's priority list, etc...
  29. DrNick

    Convolution inverses to take out mic character?

    I read somewhere that the way the Axe-FX adds mic character to a cab block is via convolution with something that encodes the EQ curve of the mic. (I'm a mathematician, and convolution comes up in many places in math - I'm just assuming the term is being used here in the same manner, which...
  30. DrNick

    Hidden contributors to volume in an AMP block

    Hi folks. Since I've been digging deeper into the AMP block trying to wrap my head around my new amp + cab setup, I've been led to what it probably a softball of a question. I've noticed that nominally similar AMP blocks (such as 6160 Block and 6160 II) with identical settings produce...
  31. DrNick

    Low Frequency Resonance

    This is the first of what is likely to be several posts related to the fact that I'm using a cab for the first time (with the AXE FX). I'm posting my questions separately with the intention of them being more useful for future reference to folks searching the forum. My reading about the Low...
  32. DrNick

    USB vs. Guitar Volume / OUT 1 clipping

    I need advice. My setup is simply AXE-FX II connected via USB to a computer. I use the AXE-FX as my audio interface, so all output from my DAW is routed through OUT 1 to my powered speakers. Of course, my guitar is also being routed through OUT 1 to my speakers. (For what it's worth, my...
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