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    Got a request that will make the tube die-hards think....can you do a demo video?

    Hearing protection, of course. Because I'm religious about using it, at the tender young age of 58 my hearing is substantially better than average for my age range. I'll put on hearing protection when running anything louder than a cordless screwdriver.
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    Got a request that will make the tube die-hards think....can you do a demo video?

    I keep hearing this over and over and over again from the die-hard tube lovers: "No modeller can match the insane roar of a cranked Marshall stack!" We know that's not true. Yes, it CAN. If set up right, sure it can. So let's prove it. So I want someone to prove it. Someone who can play...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    NOT looking for a synthesizer functionality. Just the ability to alter the harmonics in an overdriven signal to change the tonal qualities of the overdrive to replicate the overdrive characteristics of any of a number of existing amplifiers, or maybe even come up with a distinctive new...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    No, not a synthesizer. Just a means of altering the harmonic mix of an overdriven signal. To have control over its timbre, which depending on the harmonic mix may be more like, to give some examples, a Fuzzface, or a Randall RG80, or a Pearce G1, or a G-K 2100SEL, or....pick an amp with a...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    You're looking at it from a "we know how to do it THIS WAY" point of view. What I have in mind is more of a "distortion generator that generates harmonics in a user controllable manner" instead. The fantasy way that's not really possible yet, rather than the real world way that won't give...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    Let me go back to the concept in my head. Take the best sounding overdriven guitar tone you've ever heard. Your personal favorite. Now imagine if you could individually control the level of every harmonic generated by that overdrive. Second, third, fourth, eleventh...whatever. All harmonics...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    I can only guess that some day, modellers will have the processing power and someone will write the algorithms and code required to create the block I'm imagining. Just not yet.
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    I was under the impression that the harmonics and their amplitudes were already defined within the models, but math of that level is admittedly above my pay grade.
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    Fair enough. My task is to suggest what might be worth doing. Others have the task of deciding if it's possible, or worth doing. It seems to me that the fundamental difference between two different amps that have different distortion characteristics is their specific mix of harmonics. How or...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    A pitch shifter is totally different. This would allow you to custom craft distortion with control over its harmonic content in ways that nothing else offers. And since harmonics determine timbre, you could, for example, match your guitar's output to something very similar to the timbre of...
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    Wish Harmonic generator with level controls for each harmonic

    Proposed block: Harmonic generator. Mathematically generates the overdrive harmonic sequence, from first harmonic to the highest audible harmonics. Every harmonic's level is individually controlled via sliders. Like a graphic equalizer, but it works on individual harmonics, not specific...
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    Simulating doubletracked guitar....?

    I'm looking for ways to thicken up my tone, as if I'd doubletracked my guitar, but want to do it with effects blocks, within the Axe-FX II. If you have a satisfactory solution to this problem, please post how you did it. Yes, I've experimented with mixing in a short delayed repeat but that...
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    Looking for Guitar Pick Suggestions

    Find a pick you like and add grip to it using pieces of adhesive backed sandpaper. Something with a reasonably fine texture. 600 grit is nice. Lately I've been using mostly purple Dunlop Delrin picks. But really I don't care much except that I prefer my picks to be on the thick and stiff...
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    Anyone else use the same IR with all amps?

    I know, I'm different. I never use IRs. I run my Axe-FX through a power amp and feed a stereo guitar cab with a pair of Celestion Greenbacks in it, or sometimes I use other cabinets but I always use guitar cabinets. I don't own an FRFR cabinet, but I don't say I never will.
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    Has anyone transitioned from [Fractal -> FRFR] to [Fractal -> power amp > guitar speaker cabinets]?

    I have always run my fractal as a real live guitar amp. It's mated to an Alesis RA100 stereo power amp and drives a 2x12 wired stereo, with a Celestion Greenback reissue in each side. This is almost always how I run the Fractal. I've NEVER run it without an amp and speakers attached. I am of...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    OK. So there's that limitation....maybe there's some value in pursuing a new type of IR, one that is more like a speaker transfer characteristic rather than just a stimulus-response sweep, which I guess you can describe an IR to be. I'm not in any position to do more than ask some questions...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    Let me provide a simplified explanation of what I'm thinking, in a test and measurement approach. Set up a speaker with a very linear amplifier and a clean sine source, and a calibrated microphone connected to a high resolution audio spectrum analyzer. Apply a low level 1 KHz tone to the...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    Please explain the measurement modes and methodology used to obtain this data.
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    The effect of non-pistonic motion of the driver is simply the generation of harmonics that are not part of the input signal. The shortcoming of the swept frequency plot as shown by York Audio is that it is cumulative in nature and does not represent the spectral harmonics of a driver at a...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    I respectfully disagree with the notion that you're hearing the power amp being pushed when the power amp is abundantly overpowered for the task, although it does make sense if the amp exhibits non-linear behavior within the power range in question. So say it's the 20, 25, or 30 watt rating...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    What I'm proposing is a means of capturing the dynamic cone breakup behavior, or more properly its harmonic effects, which will be different at high volumes as compared to low volumes. It stands to reason that the harmonic content generate by cone breakup modes will be greater when the cone...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    Well, as the video shows, yes, pistonic motion is possible but the speaker has to be engineered for it, and that pistonic motion is likely to be restricted to a specific frequency range. And power range as well. Its rigidity is only going to hold until you put a certain amount of energy into...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    This demonstrates breakup modes visualized on speakers that are far more intensively engineered to be pistonic than any guitar-specific speaker in existence, almost beyond a doubt. The notion that speakers are pistonic in their motion over their effective functional range is simply a myth...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    You might want to reference the laser interferometry studies done by Polk Audio as they researched how to make speakers more highly pistonic in motion and thus more linear in nature. In fact, speakers that are mostly pistonic over their operating range are rare, and the larger they are, the...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    What you'd get is more faithful reproduction of the non-linear characteristics of a real world driver. Of greatest interest would be the cone breakup modes of those speakers that are known for their desirable cone breakup modes. Such as your classic Celestion Greenback. They don't break up...
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    For Those Who Struggle with Traditional IRs

    My issue with IRs is that they're a two dimensional snapshot of a 3 dimensional phenomenon. If you take IRs at different volume levels, you get different responses. Speaker behavior is NOT linear over the full power handling range of the speaker. A properly detailed IR would involve a series...
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    Has anyone transitioned from [Fractal -> FRFR] to [Fractal -> power amp > guitar speaker cabinets]?

    I have always, since literally day one with my Axe-FX, run it into a small stereo power amp and from there to a stereo Avatar cabinet equipped with a pair of Celestion Greenbacks. I have never run FRFR speakers with it. Of course this means I don't use IRs. I have the capability to run into...
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    Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat

    I just want to point out that the USAF has flown a modified F-16 using an autonomous AI. Unarmed and with limited range, there is a very substantial limit on the harm it could do if the AI were to go rogue. But....it's a first step toward a possible Skynet scenario. I'm not opposed to AIs...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    I sure understand that! I make a simple product...family of products. If you have an old Marshall amp and want to obtain replacements for the front and back panels on them, whether they're metalface or plexi, I'm literally the only worldwide source for aftermarket replacements for most models...
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    EVM 12L Impulse Response

    Actually I ran the Thiele-Small parameters on the boxes I make and they're within 1 percent of ideal for the EVM-12L published specs. That's closer than the Mesa box. I'd burn my own IR on them except the only decent mic I have is an omnidirectional condenser mic. Not the best choice. I've...
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    Am I the only one that doesn't have any experience with "real amps?"

    The old non-master-volume Marshalls are fantastic but you have to understand from the very start that they deliver the goods only when they're cranked up. They were built to fill up the venue with sound in a time before PA systems were good and powerful.
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    EVM 12L Impulse Response

    Thanks again, now I've got plenty to play with. I've always enjoyed the EVM-12L, right from the beginning of my guitar adventure. It was the first speaker type I acquired after happily ditching those awful soggy sounding Pyle MH1229 speakers that were what was in the first "Real" amp I bought...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    Man, I'd sure like to get a look at Cliff's amp collection! I am imagining a small warehouse filled with shelving units, showing each individual amp neatly displayed on its own shelf in neat orderly rows and columns. But it's equally possible that they're just packed and stacked in a small...
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    Am I the only one that doesn't have any experience with "real amps?"

    For me the Fractal was a gateway drug. I'd owned a number of tube amps before I got my Fractal, but I used the Fractal as a means to preview various amps I might be interested in....and ended up buying some of them. I've bought more real tube amps since I got the Fractal than I had ever had...
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    Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat

    I have personally gotten ChatGPT to contradict its original statement in response to a query, by leading questions that referenced verifiable data. Not going to get into details, because the nature of the conversation is highly controversial and politically charged. In the process I got...
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    Microsoft “lobotomized” AI-powered Bing Chat

    There are MANY science fiction stories about AIs going off the rails and turning evil to humans. But none of them had this happening quite as quickly as it's happening in reality. However, in the sci-fi stories, none of them takes into account the notion that the AI is going to have millions...
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    F-16 fighter jet trainer called the VISTA X-62A became the first tactical aircraft to be controlled by AI.

    Just don't let it visit TDPRI. The consequences of that would be incomprehensible, but BAD.
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    Mark IIC+ Tips

    Since this was recently bumped I'll throw in my 2 cent's worth. Ditch the 5 band EQ and put in the 11 band EQ instead, which will greatly enhance the power of the EQ to tweak your tone to a level of perfection that angers the gods. Or even better...put in an outboard FX loop block and patch...
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    F-16 fighter jet trainer called the VISTA X-62A became the first tactical aircraft to be controlled by AI.

    No worries. It won't outfly its fuel supply. No midair refueling for the naughty AI. We can also shut down the GPS system in the area it's flying in. I think that AI will be useful but we will prudently retain absolute control over essential parameters which will keep us from getting into a...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    I had heard before that it was actually modelled on Hetfield's amp. I'm very personally familiar with Mark IIs, IIIs, and IVs, having owned versions of all of them, and it's that unique tone controls before distortion and EQ post distortion circuit that gives such incredible tone shaping...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    I think we can agree that there are more amps that COULD be modelled in our Fractals, than ever will be. But how many are really so distinctively different from the others that they really earn their place in a limited amount of memory? I'd be glad to loan Cliff my Fender 400PS if he really...
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    EVM 12L Impulse Response

    I'm looking for an IR for a 4x12 loaded with EVM-12Ls, if anybody knows where to find one, please clue me in.
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    Help getting this tone....Deadhead by Devin Townsend

    I get the concept, thanks. I'll play with this and see how things go. I'm completely willing to build the whole preset from scratch myself, I just appreciate this guidance that will help me to avoid too many false starts. Even after having the Axe-FX for several years, it still has a lot of...
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    Guitar finishes / types of finishes

    That may not work well on spalted alder. The soft spalted parts will suck up the dye and you'll just end up with black spots all over the guitar, with the rest of the alder being fairly free of dye. People can do as they wish, of course, but to me, alder is a paint grade wood. I wouldn't...
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    Guitar finishes / types of finishes

    Speaking as someone who has built quite a few guitars, and has an understanding of what these various paints and supplies cost at the retail level, I can tell you that for the labor involved plus paint costs, those price increases for the finish upgrades are pretty reasonable. Doing a...
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    Help getting this tone....Deadhead by Devin Townsend

    Looking to match the intro section's tone in Deadhead, by Devin Townsend. What's getting me is that he's got this drenched reverb/delay from outer space but yet when it decays it's panned hard left and right, while keeping the guitar in the center and dry. I know this is probably not hard to...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    Marshall ended plexi panels for the 1959, 1987, and related models in mid 1969. Some other models like the 18 and 20 watt lead and bass models may have kept plexi panels on them a bit longer but that'd apparently have to do with quantity of panels in stock and amp inventory more than anything...
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    Fractal Amp - Marshall Major Go Fund Me

    What I've heard (and I'm always on the Marshall forum where some true SMEs on Marshalls hang out...I'm not on their level, admittedly...) is that the lower plate voltage was a response to the lower plate voltage tolerance of available power tubes as the legendary tubes of the golden days became...
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    Axe-Fx II Beta USB Driver for Mac OS X Catalina

    Oddly enough, I've never had a lick of trouble with the previous driver and Catalina. It works fine.
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    Can the Axe-Fx II sustain?

    I have a number of presets that do infinite sustain at bedroom quiet volume levels. One, based on Steve Lukather's 1990s rig, uses a Mesa Mark III preamp, which is a gain monster, and a big midrange boost before overdrive. This has so much saturation and sustain that it basically doesn't...
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    Banned from TGP

    I never had a problem at TGP, which I rarely visit, but TDPRI, on the other hand....let's just say the mods and staff must clearly be whiny bitches. I got banned for the most ridiculous thing. For my screen name, Matthews Guitars. I make some guitars, for a hobby, and have my Matthews...
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    Banned from TGP

    TGP banned me simply because the screen name I chose is the "brand name" that I have applied to the later guitars I've made AS A HOBBY. Which is Matthews Guitars. Because Matthew is my middle name and my last name is common and already in use as a cheap Chinese guitar brand. So, because some...
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    Your next modeller may be your smartphone.

    Has anybody else thought this? With the ever increasing power of smartphones, sooner or later some company is going to be the first to build an app for smartphones that will serve as your preamp. With a Bluetooth input device connected to your guitar and a Bluetooth output device connected...
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    What amp, if did not have the Axe Fx III?

    I've actually bought (and sometimes sold) more real tube amps SINCE getting the Fractal than I had BEFORE getting the Fractal. I call it my gateway drug, because it guided me in my amp shopping. I knew more about what tones I can expect if I buy THIS amp. I've become an aficionado of vintage...
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    Why Power Tubes Sound Different

    The tube itself doesn't have a characteristic sound. It's just part of the whole system. Tubes with different parameters will impart a different sound, but the circuitry of the amp itself is the other half of the total equation. It's the sum of the parts. No single part has the sound...
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    Why Power Tubes Sound Different

    Once again, as I mentioned previously, it's the interaction of the tube's parameters with the circuit parameters that affect the frequency response. I cite again, the venerable 6L6 beam power pentode, a tube that can operate in the audio frequency range and is also useful at any frequency up...
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    Why Power Tubes Sound Different

    In the audiophile world and even in the musician's world, for that matter, there has also been some debate regarding the "sound" of one interconnect cable vs. another. The reality is simply this: EVERY component, be it a power tube, a guitar cord, an RCA cable, or any other component in the...
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    June 15, 2022. The day the Kemper Profiler patent expires.

    I echo the comments above. Except...there is no Fractal model available to download for some amps that I own or have owned. This is the usage case where profiling makes sense. Profiling can certainly be "good enough" for gigging, as evidenced by the fact that even some very big name...
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    June 15, 2022. The day the Kemper Profiler patent expires.

    A patent is not renewable. It grants 17 years of exclusive rights to make your patented product without others copying it. (Not legally, anyway.) After that, the patented design is fair game to competitors. But you have to be careful to ensure that if you copy an expired patent, that you...
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    June 15, 2022. The day the Kemper Profiler patent expires.

    Profiling captures the sound of the amplifier being profiled. Tone match is an automated system of matching the EQ curve of an amp model to a reference signal, as I understand it. It is not a feature I've personally used but of course it is in my Axe-FX. I'm sure Fractal has documentation...
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    June 15, 2022. The day the Kemper Profiler patent expires.

    Fractal could take profiling to the next level. WAY beyond Kemper's fairly rudimentary profiling. I have some amps that Fractal has never modelled. But I'd like to have their tones in my Fractal. I now that isn't going to happen, as there's zero chance that any such profiling system will be...
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    June 15, 2022. The day the Kemper Profiler patent expires.

    As a point of interest, since there have been SOME people who have asked why only Kemper has profiling ability, it will interest at least those people to know that the patent that covers the Kemper Profiler expires on June 15, 2022, or so it appears based on the results of some patent...
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    Would you get this guitar plek'd?

    I would not, but I'm an experienced luthier and I can do fretwork that's as good as anybody's work. A Plek machine isn't going to do a better job than I will if I'm paying attention to my work.
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    Why Power Tubes Sound Different

    Makes sense to me. Your standard 6L6 beam power pentode tube was designed to not only function in the audio range, but also is used as a transmitter tube at frequencies up to 30 MHz. If the tube's power bandwidth is 30 MHz or even just ONE MHz, then it'd have to have a very flat audio...
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    How to reduce pick attack?

    Steve Lukather's tone from the late 90s featured a very prominent pick attack and pick scrape in it. This is achieved by a big midrange boost before distortion. So it stands to reason that reducing midrange content before distortion should reduce pick attack and scrape.
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    Axe-Fx II "Ares" Rev 2.00 Firmware Release

    It won't bother me if there are no more updates for the II product family. But I wouldn't exactly object if that happened, either.
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    Does Axe-Edit Not Work (Properly) With Mac OS?

    I have yet to experience any problems at all with the original driver on OS Catalina driving an Axe-FX II. Everything works perfectly.
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    Axe-Fx II "Ares" Rev 2.00 Firmware Release

    At this point is there any chance that the list of amp models might be changed for an AFII? Or has development of all that ceased? My wish list would be for a way to pick and choose which amp models are uploaded to my AFII, out of a larger, complete list of available models. I am sure beyond...
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    Will the model list for AFII be updated again? Model request

    I'm aware of the doubleverb model, but it's not the ultralinear 135 watt model. The ultralinear models have their own sound, and for clean tones it's the best of the best, even without taking into account the particularly lush reverb that these models usually have. (Which is very...
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    Will the model list for AFII be updated again? Model request

    One amp I really wish was modelled in my AFII is either the 70 or 135 watt ultralinear Fender silver face amps, either Pro Reverb or Twin Reverb. In both cases, they're about as lush and beautiful sounding as a clean tone can get. I have yet to hear any amp that quite matches that floating on...
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    Rotary block in every preset? What happened?

    OK, that makes sense. I just go through each preset and edit out the functions I don't want and resave them. Not a big deal. I just wanted to know why this had happened in the first place and I got my answer. Thanks!
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    Rotary block in every preset? What happened?

    Lately I haven't used my AFII much. I've been...distracted....by five vintage Marshalls I've picked up over the last year. But I'd noticed that in the AFII, which is running Ares 2.0 firmware, nearly every preset has a rotary block in the chain and usually enabled. I've also stopped to...
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    Axe-Fx II Beta USB Driver for Mac OS X Catalina

    I'm running Catalina on a new (to me) Mac from 2013. I've had literally zero issues. Haven't needed to update any drivers.
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    Axe-FX Name Timeout!

    I found my problem. Somehow the MFC-101 got reset. Use its onboard editor function and be sure it's set to the correct cable type and set to work with the correct version Axe-FX. I use an ethernet connection. (I'd buy an ethercon cable except the setup literally never gets moved in the...
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    Gainy blues patch (Blue Angel-ish)

    I just took the preset and exported it to USB. It should work, right?
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    Gainy blues patch (Blue Angel-ish)

    Trying again. I wrote this to USB, read it back in my AFII. I know it works.
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    Gainy blues patch (Blue Angel-ish)

    Here's a patch I made that was intended to replicate the response of a Mesa Blue Angel amp. But maybe with a little bit more gain and drive... Let me know what you think. I tried to make a patch that does that edge-of-distortion thing very well. I think this works but I also like its higher...
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    Axe-FX Name Timeout!

    I am now experiencing the same problem. I have an Axe-FX II running the latest Ares firmware and I went to use the system today, after several weeks of inactivity. (Sorry....my vintage Marshalls have been capturing my attention for a while.) My setup, which was working perfectly at last...
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    Bought an Axe-Fx 2 ... and it's fried

    Clearly that diode is blown up, but the question is, what other damage may have been done that caused it to blow, or what damage has it caused as a consequence? That's a nice carbon blast mark on the board by the diode, and that has to be thoroughly cleaned off as it is very conductive. You...
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    I think my Les Paul is a dud

    If I find a guitar that has a "dead zone" on the neck, I look at what I can do to change the bridge and tailpiece. Change it to something different. If it has an ABR-, put on a TonePros version of the Nashville bridge. Or vice versa. Change the tailpiece to a lightweight one, or if it's...
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    AFIII VH Modded Marshall

    Sounds great. Try changing the tube type to 6CA7s, which would be more academically "correct". Eddie sought out Sylvania 6CA7s, reportedly, to such an extent that "allegedly" he had a standing policy of buying all of them that came to his attention. Which I can't confirm as being the truth...
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    Amps you have owned and loved, but don't expect to be ever modeled

    It was probably printed in the back of the manual that came with the amp. But who reads that?
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    Amps you have owned and loved, but don't expect to be ever modeled

    That's because that was a lot more than 150 watts. For reference, Marshall specifies that a "100 watt" early 70s model 1959 Super Lead amp puts out about 170 watts RMS at 10 percent distortion. At full tilt, that same amp can put 220 watts of electrical energy into the speaker cabinet...
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    Amps you have owned and loved, but don't expect to be ever modeled

    Yeah, I figured the memory is full. That's why I suggest a system that allows you to pick and choose which models you can load into the unit, and which ones you can leave out. I'm sure that more models have been developed than will fit into a single unit.
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    Amps you have owned and loved, but don't expect to be ever modeled

    Certain silverface master volume Fenders. All specific stripe variants of the Mesa Mark III. Mesa Blue Angel. Of course there are others, plenty in fact, but those come to mind first. I know, the AFII has limited memory. There isn't room enough for every model all at once. And THAT has me...
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    Where's the harmonizer? (Ares firmware)

    Ah. No wonder! Thanks.
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    Where's the harmonizer? (Ares firmware)

    Just that simple question. I'm running Ares firmware ver. 3.14.3 in my AFII. I simply can not find a harmonizer block available. I thought there was one? Did it get axed (pardon the pun) in a firmware update?
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    Pipe Organ Presets?

    I know, I know, this thread has been dead for over five years. But it was worth bringing it back for this!
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    Potential problem with Axe-Fx sold to someone

    Is that a firmware bug? Because when I updated my firmware recently, I discovered that there was now a rotary effect present in many of my presets that wasn't there before. I didn't check them all. I sure didn't put them there, because rotary is never an effect I have had any use for. I've...
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    Help! I'm stuck in my own head.

    The way it's "supposed" to work is that the Axe-FX gives you a reason to have fewer "real" amps to care and feed and maintain. But for me, it kind of had the opposite effect. I found it to function, in part, as an "amp sampler" like a candy sampler, which told me which real amps I might want...
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    Tone Matching Services

    I agree. There is a cocked wah going on in there. No doubt about it.
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    Where the Axe FX II can't compete with real amps....

    Well, I don't see any evidence that "the company has a rather rude way to deal with Kemper"...but I have only very limited praise for that product. Its limitations as a device that relies on a stimulus-response method of capturing amp performance is blatantly evident to my ears. It has its...
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    Tone Matching Services

    His tone is REALLY close to the classic Randy Rhoads tone but not quite so bright. Akira favors Plexis and amps that are based on that idea like the Friedman HBE-100 and before that, Lee Jackson Metaltronix amps. I'm sure he's used Marshall Plexis in the past. So, you could do worse than to...
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    I want to achieve this tone but not sure where to start.

    The clean guitar sounds pretty simple to me. Strat neck pickup, tone rolled off to some degree. Amp model, some kind of Fender. It sounds mostly like a surf guitar tone to me with the tone rolled off and reverb replaced with subtle delay and echo. The reverse swoosh doesn't sound at all...
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    Where the Axe FX II can't compete with real amps....

    Tonally speaking, a Marshall 2204 is very different from a 2203. Even though the preamp circuits are identical, the differences between the two tube output stage and transformer and four tube output stage and transformer are tonally significant. We're talking about completely different plate...
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    WTB Marshall JMP back plate for late 70s 2203 (Not the back grille board)

    I'm there, but the more places you look, the more people you contact, the better your chances are of finding what you seek!
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    WTB Marshall JMP back plate for late 70s 2203 (Not the back grille board)

    I know it's a long shot but I have a 1977 Marshall JMP 100 watt head, model 2203, and it doesn't have its original rear panel on it. I'm referring to the rear panel on the chassis itself, which identifies all the features of the back panel, etc. My amp does not have a voltage selector on...
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    Which is better for Axe-Fx III - MFC-101 mark 1 or FCB1010?

    I have an MFC-101 Mk III and also an FCB-1010 (those things go for way too little money on ebay, there's no reason not to have one!) but I have not yet gotten around to adding the 1010 to my setup. I really just want to use the expression pedals in it for gain and volume. (Not wah...honestly...
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    IRs with "studio magic", i.e. big, full, 3D etc?

    I'm no expert and I had to overcome my revulsion at the music and just tried to listen to the guitar tone. There's a lot going on in that tone. I think there's some aural exciter going on in there and it's definitely stereo, multitracked, and thickened up with just a taste of delay. EMG...
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    So what exactly IS an IR? (technically speaking)

    As for how to address me, my first name is Chris. I go by that. :) My technical level is somewhere between technician and engineer. I've been an electronic technician all my life. I'm 54 as of this time. I'm also insatiably curious about all things technical so anything that interests me...
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