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  1. claudel

    GR-300

    This thread is making me nostalgic. I blew my entire semester's student loan on one in 1982 or so and got another a few years later for $25 at a flea market. Shoulda kept it and never "upgraded" to the GR700. Mine sounded best when I split the straight guitar signal off to it's own ( guitar )...
  2. claudel

    Whats your favorite mic you gravitate towards?

    "Real" mics or Axe mics? I don't own any "real" ones anymore although an iMic might be on the horizon. As far as virtuals, I've been using a stereo cab with a NF primary cabinet and a secondary FF one, usually the EMI @ -3db or so. Most of the time, no mic sim seems to work best for me on the...
  3. claudel

    looking for envelope filter preset

    Envelope filter patches are tough to share because one must adjust the envelope controller parameters to fit one's own instrument(s) and picking. Try changing the ones in the factory patch, especially the threshold, and it possibly will work better for you... If you have to pick too hard to...
  4. claudel

    v6 made me get my guitar teched.

    Coincidentally enough I had to fix the high "E" slot in the nut on my Telecaster this week. I thought I just replaced that nut, but it's been 1o years. Time flies when you're having fun. Axe sounds much better without the plinky "E"...
  5. claudel

    EARVANA FLOYD ROSE NUT

    No kidding. I need to replace one in one of mine and I can't seem to find the right blank for < US$35.
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    ...

    I used to have one of these Ford Fairlane (Americas) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1967 Ford Fairlane GTA Convertible Great car when gas was cheap... Mine was green. I had a Jeep when I lived in the desert. 350 Chevy. Even worse mileage than the Fairlane. I drove it from Boise...
  7. claudel

    Fender is Awesome

    Hundreds, if not thousands of forumites.
  8. claudel

    Dual axis expression pedal - anyone tested it and what´s your opinions?

    Will this pedal send two different control signals on one wire? That'd be great for the II. If it needs a wire for each signal, not so much...
  9. claudel

    Multi Comp.....amazing

    Helps with the mushy lows that were more prevalent in previous FWs, too. What frequencies are folks using for the bands?
  10. claudel

    Flat-Response (Reference) Pickups?

    Q-Tuners are pretty flat and wide. I love them on basses but haven't tried the guitar ones. Q-tuner – World's first neodymium guitar and bass pickups They were out of production for awhile...
  11. claudel

    What's the deal with expression pedals?

    The pedal shows up as "external 1" inside the Axe II, so you don't have to care what MIDI number it is as long as you don't change it. I personally didn't care for the spring loaded Mission one so I got a Rocktron Hex, which seems to work fine. I use it to switch effects ( usually...
  12. claudel

    What did you do to get better at guitar?

    Well, it was right after Monterey and before AYE, so there weren't dozens of parasites chasing him, yet. He was friendly with me for the couple of minutes we spoke. Seemed surprised that folks were digging his music. I guess it hadn't sunk in all the way with him yet as to what he was in for...
  13. claudel

    What did you do to get better at guitar?

    Believe me, I caught a huge clue at the time...
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    What did you do to get better at guitar?

    Ambassador Ballroom, Washington DC. Friday, 11 August 1967. I'd heard about Jimi, but hadn't actually heard a note of his music until that night. First time I ever saw a Marshall stack too ( RIP Guvnor ) Not too many others had, either. The place was about 1/3 full the first night I went. No...
  15. claudel

    What did you do to get better at guitar?

    Yep. True story... Didn't help me get much better though.
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    What did you do to get better at guitar?

    When I was just a teenager I was lucky enough to get a chance to briefly chat with someone who had just really impressed me with their playing, moreso than anyone else prior to that time. He told me he had only been playing for seven years, but that he kept a guitar with him and practiced all...
  17. claudel

    Axe2 Preset building

    Scott P's tutorial is also a good place to start... http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-discussion/47880-taming-monster-building-amp-cab-preset-axe-fx-ii-tweaking.html
  18. claudel

    Why we tweak our Axes? I'm finally starting to getting it!

    This reminds me of an animal question. Q: "Why does a dog lick his balls?" A: "Because he can."
  19. claudel

    EARVANA FLOYD ROSE NUT

    I have an Earvana on a couple of my guitars and it makes a difference that I can hear. A good one. YMMV. No experience with the locking one, seems like good materials & workmanship...
  20. claudel

    AXE Edit - Sysex Send Loop

    Glad it worked out for you... Mine started doing it right after I posted in this thread :? :lol I had to reboot both the Axe and Axe-Edit to make it quit. I'm glad that's all there was to it...
  21. claudel

    AXE Edit - Sysex Send Loop

    I've had a corrupt patch cause this in the past. Delete the one it's looping on from the Axe... Save it as a preset first and then reload it if this breaks the loop...
  22. claudel

    Mic placement is key!

    I know that sound guy...
  23. claudel

    What tones will you try to match first once 6.0 is ready?

    JTM100 clean like "The Wind Cries Mary" from Jimi @ monterey Jaco bass like this w/Joni still trying to nail that acoustic bass as well...
  24. claudel

    THE AXE AND THE VOLTAGE CONDITIONER

    This gets beaten to death every couple of weeks.. "Search" is your friend... Short version: Fractal devices are engineered to accept a wide range of power sources so a conditioner/regulator is unnecessary, according to FAS. That said, many ( including me ) consider the benefits ( single...
  25. claudel

    couldn't most Djent be played on just a 3 string guitar?

    I got your cookiemonster right here :lol even has a touch of the wheedly-wheedly RIP Wendy... This is making me miss my old VP70 :geek :roll
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    couldn't most Djent be played on just a 3 string guitar?

    I'm old. I listened to the clips folks posted. I liked some of it, but the cookie-monster vocal thing and the wheedly-wheedly guitaring are a couple of decades past their prime... IMO, of course. No comment on the sub-categorizations :roll :lol
  27. claudel

    Tube Preamp for Bass

    Thanks much. That's the kind of feedback I need... Are you monitoring through speakers?
  28. claudel

    Tube Preamp for Bass

    Done with into the trusty DT770s There's both an "X" and a "Y" but they're not too different. The compressor is an attempt to keep it out of the red when I pop it, but it still needs something or another As always, comments appreciated...
  29. claudel

    Rack Cases/studio rack for Axefx II

    Another vote for Audiopile as a class act... I wound up with this one... SKB 10x6 Roto Rack Console with optional laptop stand I mounted the Axe in the top space and modded a shelf to fill in the rest of the top. UPS and a drawer for stuff are in the front with a few open spaces for future...
  30. claudel

    What's the single thing you like most about the Axe FX?

    I like seeing if I can redo all my patches after a major FW upgrade before the next major FW upgrade drops... I have almost all of one bank's worth updated to version 5.07... Some are still gathering virtual dust on V3 Back to it...
  31. claudel

    Can the Axe FX II emulate a sitar ?

    There's a few patches floating around that include the sympathetic drones, but all the ones I've heard so far miss the proper characteristics in the fundamental that come from having the string lay across a flat bridge. I probably didn't describe this as well as could be...
  32. claudel

    Who didn't you see?

    Artists I didn't get to see that I wish I did: King Elvis Miles Syd Barrett
  33. claudel

    Surprises & Disappointments

    I have both instances from the same show, sometime in 1968. I really liked Vanilla Fudge. I'd seen them in a small place the year before and they were great, monster playing, great harmony vocals. The jam thing hadn't been flogged to death, yet. So, when I went to see them in a larger venue I...
  34. claudel

    Who was your first Concert?

    What a cool venue. I saw Muddy Waters w/The Youngbloods there in 1966 or so and also saw The Grateful Dead there when they were still Pig's band. Might have been their first East Coast shows. Summer of '67. My first real rock show was Link Wray and the Wraymen in the basement of a church in...
  35. claudel

    Using the axe 24/7

    I like to reboot everything every couple of days or so...
  36. claudel

    Is grounded power outlet necessary ?

    "Is grounded power outlet necessary ? " Only if you want to avoid being electrocuted.
  37. claudel

    Missing Link? Wireless Axe Control

    Never mind... I found this thread http://forum.fractalaudio.com/other-midi-controllers/45191-controlling-axefx-via-wifi-iphone-ipad-android-device.html no sense cluttering the board with multiples... Mods: Feel free to move/kill/merge this one.
  38. claudel

    Missing Link? Wireless Axe Control

    http://wifimidi.com/ "The Missing Link OSC/MIDI Translator is a standalone hardware device which contains its own WiFi radio, and translates specially-coded OSC messages sent from your mobile device or computer into standard MIDI messages to control synthesizers, drum machines, mixers...
  39. claudel

    My first big influence in music. What's yours?

    "Bright Size Life" Now, that's a good one...
  40. claudel

    My first big influence in music. What's yours?

    First influence was my Mom's stack of single sided '78s :ugeek. I especially remember digging the boogie-woogie piano ones. First guitar influence besides King Elvis on Ed Sullivan, was Mr Fred Lincoln Wray Jr. I was lucky enough to see Link & The Wraymen in the basement of a church in...
  41. claudel

    New Amps day

    So, has anyone bought it a ticket to New Hampshire yet?
  42. claudel

    Any patches for Bass Guitar out there?

    I'l try mixing the JC with the SV for the low end. Thanx for the idea. I'd really love to get a solid match on the old Acoustic 370 thing. That's as much a part of the Jaco sound as the beatup Jazz bass, IMO. At the moment, that's really the only tone I want to duplicate. It's easy enough to...
  43. claudel

    Any patches for Bass Guitar out there?

    That would be sorta like an inverse suck knob... I'm waiting for the Tone Matching feature to emerge so that I can gen up a Jaco tone or two. I'm probably gonna start with something from "Don Juan's Restless Daughter"
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    Update, Power Conditioner in front of Axe II

    Last couple of times this came up I posted my story about the lightning strike at my Mom's that blasted thru a 1" solid copper lightning rod and dug a nice trench in the yard... Stuff happens, and I'd rather melt a $300 UPS/Conditioner/Regulator than a Fractal noise box. Even some of the more...
  45. claudel

    Update, Power Conditioner in front of Axe II

    Some Furmans have components that need to be replaced after a power hit like that...
  46. claudel

    Do you have Tinnitus?

    Playing the Axe thru cans hasn't helped mine much. :shock :roll I don't have a severe case, but I definitely get bad things going on in the higher range at inconvenient moments. Sometimes I can mentally shift the frequency of the whinetone up and out of the audible range which...
  47. claudel

    Your Top 3 Favorite "Live" Albums

    With a randomized detuner added... :lol
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    Your Top 3 Favorite "Live" Albums

    This morning it will be Pink Floyd "at Pompeii" Plastic Ono Band "Live Peace in Toronto" - is there a "Yoko" patch for the Axe II? :lol :D 8) Metallica "S&M with the San Francisco Symphony" Last two are always special for me because I was lucky enough to be there. Bunch of other great...
  49. claudel

    preset corrupted with latest AxeEdit?

    I realize that the developers are trying to do their best, but having one's tools shit on one's work gets old after awhile.
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    How many of you have amps that you plan on Amp Matching?

    "Go Advanced" My amps are long gone, but I hope someone has a nice old JTM45/100 ( maybe even my old one ) and will share a match file at some point. I'm gonna try for a Jaco bass tone at some point, but that's tone matching and not amp matching
  51. claudel

    Sitar request

    Check Smilefan's posts, I think he posted a couple. One with drums... There was one called "Tampura" and one called "Indian Raga Band" There was one called "Sitar" floating around as well. You'll probably want an acoustic IR for it, too.
  52. claudel

    ...

    I'd take my semi-homemade Nottagibbo. :shock :roll 8) It goes to eleven I haven't been playing the others much since I finished this one, anyway.
  53. claudel

    Bug? or Feature? Axe Scrolls Thru Presets During Sync

    Axe-Fx II Firmware 5.04b .267 AE, OS X 10.7.4 All three Axe banks populated with homegrown/downloaded patches When I ran a preset sync ("Sync Banks From Hardware") from AE after updating the firmware the Axe scrolled thru all the presets while the sync was running and stopped at the last one...
  54. claudel

    What Song is Stuck in Your Brain Today??

    Sorry... :D
  55. claudel

    Why is this UPS so cheap?

    I've been using one of these for about 6 months without issues. The SNMP card and other computer stuff is optional Yes, I know I'll eventually need to replace the battery. I probably should get a spare before I need it. Yes, it's a bit heavy. I know that the power supply in the Axe is quite...
  56. claudel

    New Stock Presets Tweaked for Firmware 5?

    Y'all must all be lawyers... :lol
  57. claudel

    Plek your guitar?

    According to PLEK / A+D Gitarrentechnologie GmbH - Plek Worldmap closest to Texas is in Norman, Oklahoma...
  58. claudel

    Plek your guitar?

    It's another, albeit expensive, tool for the skilled luthier and/or manufacturer. I've had one of mine done and was pleased by the results, although I've also been equally pleased by the results of a setup done by a skilled person without the Plek... Either case would be far better than I...
  59. claudel

    What time is it where you're at right now?

    Don't forget this one, it's almost 4:20 R.I.P. R.W.
  60. claudel

    What is the meaning of your user name here?

    I've been "claudel" since first grade...
  61. claudel

    Sharing presets between AxFx Ultra and AxFx II

    This has already been beat to death in the forum... The originals and the II have too many differences internally for the patches to be automagically converted. Some of the controls and settings are roughly equivalent, but not enough to be compatible. Fractal is a small company with finite...
  62. claudel

    Sharing presets between AxFx Ultra and AxFx II

    That's life as it is today... To port patches one must run an instance of Axe-Edit for each unit and manually transcribe the settings. Most of the time this works fairly well, but isn't the most elegant solution
  63. claudel

    The Guitar (instrument) Pron Thread

    I owned this one for ~30 years or so... I wrote an ebook about it that's hosted ( low-res version ) at Anatomy of a 1955 Stratocaster - Table of Contents - Strat Collector News It hs a couple of hundred detail shots of a nice old guitar...
  64. claudel

    AC-30 TB

    I'm still trying to get it dialed in to what I remember of the original '64 candy panel integral topboost w/blues I once owned. I think I'm getting close. I remember the "real" one being a bit spongier, if that's a word, than I can duplicate. Upping the sag in the amp section helps a bit, but...
  65. claudel

    Part III: Smilefan Patch Thread

    It'd be nice to allow attaching zip files on the board as well, but I can see where that could be problematic.
  66. claudel

    Patch Request - Gimme Shelter

    I'm up to 4.01 so there might be something in there that's not happy. I've been having a few weird happenings with the latest (.258 ) editor and changing things only to have them change back at random with not enough evidence to be able to reproduce the problem at will. If you type in the...
  67. claudel

    Patch Request - Gimme Shelter

    Try This..
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    Patch Request - Gimme Shelter

    Try right click on the block and see if "bypass" is still checked after cancelling the external controller... Also, there's a cranked version of the amp in the "Y" tab if you didn't find it.
  69. claudel

    Patch Request - Gimme Shelter

    You have to access the filter & vibrato blocks and remove the controller from the bypass. Block > Right click "bypass mode", this brings up the parameter modifier screen. Change source controller to "None". This will turn it on. You need to do this for both the filter and the pan/trem blocks...
  70. claudel

    Patch Request - Gimme Shelter

    How close is this? Vibrato bypass is external 1 If the vibrato seems kinda bleh, make sure that the LFO settings made it thru the transfer. They should look like:
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    AC-30 TB

    How's this one? Semi-homemade Strato > Axe-II > BD770 Pros I know that the original originals didn't feature built in reverb, but this is the Axe... Vibrato bypass is external 1
  72. claudel

    Mixing headphone suggestions?

    Please do. Those seem really nifty. Seen a price yet?
  73. claudel

    Are Jay Mitchell's far-field IRs downloadable from anywhere?

    On my iMac under 10.7 I had to use Stuffit Expander to properly open the archive. Merely clicking to expand it via Archive Utility caused it to loop as you describe... Try a different program to expand it...
  74. claudel

    Mixing headphone suggestions?

    After my trusty AKG 240S ( 25 years, snif ) finally disintegrated I got a pair of Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro refurbs which I like a lot. For awhile Beyer was selling them direct on the 'bay for US$99. They're great with the Axe II. I don't know if the deal is still on.
  75. claudel

    CAB Formula Results for AXE FX II...more info for newbies

    Now that I looked :lol, RedWirez TC30 captures have only 0in distance for most cabinets... A few have 2Meter distances but that's different than what I'm looking for at the moment... I use other mics in other blends at different distances, but I'm liking the square blend of TC30s for most of...
  76. claudel

    CAB Formula Results for AXE FX II...more info for newbies

    My US$0.02 I'm still using the SOX blender locally, but it should be easy enough to adapt this recipe for The RW web blender I stumbled across this awhile ago BIGBox\VoxAC30Blues\TC30-Ref-FarFields\VoxAC30Blues-TC30-Cap-0in.wav,0.25...
  77. claudel

    New info about AXE 2 front panel jacks...

    Excellent. Thanks much...
  78. claudel

    New info about AXE 2 front panel jacks...

    Great stuff. I'd love to see the bill of materials...
  79. claudel

    Axe-Fx II Firmware Version 3.03 Up

    It's at least 133% more realer. :lol 8) :)
  80. claudel

    Whats your age again...?

    62, but I don't feel a day over 100
  81. claudel

    REQ: Acoustic sim presets

    I'm still reworking my patches after 3.0... I had a few editor issues that were causing me to have corrupt patches that I didn't want floating around the community, but with the latest editor the bug that was causing me the grief seems to have been squashed. I haven't made it to reworking...
  82. claudel

    One for the Cat Lovers

    Hope this doesn't creep anyone out... :lol
  83. claudel

    Empty User Cab

    Silent Empty Cabinet Axe II format... Oops. Reread OP. This one is not a shunt, it's silent. Duh...
  84. claudel

    IR Request: Jaco Bass

    Bump for Audio/Visual (?) aid...
  85. claudel

    Axe-Fx II Firmware Version 3.02 Up + All Banks

    Me too, thanks much...
  86. claudel

    IR Request: Nylon String Guitar

    Awesome. Many thanks for doing this...
  87. claudel

    IR Request: Jaco Bass

    Would love a Jaco Bass IR while I'm begging. :lol Something like the tonez on " Overture - Cotton Avenue" or "Talk To Me" from Joni Mitchell's "Don Juan's Restless Daughter" would be perfect... TIA
  88. claudel

    IR Request: Bass Viol

    I don't have any mics, preamps, or an acoustic bass (either :lol ), so if you do, and have a nice sounding capture, please post the IR... TIA
  89. claudel

    IR Request: Nylon String Guitar

    I don't have any mics, preamps, or a nylon string guitar, so if you do, and have a nice sounding capture, please post the IR... TIA
  90. claudel

    Problem: Preset loses Punch after saving/storing it.

    Does the output block on the bad patches show all the dials set counterclockwise after a save?
  91. claudel

    Happy Nigel Tufnel Day

  92. claudel

    Cliff Chase Guitar Messenger Interview

    Great stuff. When are we gonna see the clarinet model?
  93. claudel

    Mr. Chase, please ...

    While we're sharing unsolicited opinions, mine is that I hope FAS holds 3.0 until it is relatively bug-free and until Axe-Edit is updated to reflect the firmware changes. Personally, I would prefer the firmware and editor updates to appear simultaneously so that new features are readily...
  94. claudel

    Who's the best guitar player of all time to you and why?

    I find something to enjoy from almost every player, but I wish Jimi had lived to play an Axe...
  95. claudel

    Scared and frustrated

    On a recommendation from a kind forumite I DLed a shareware program called "CleanMyMac" that does a fine job of uninstalling programs ( among other things ) and finding leftovers from software that somehow winds up in obscure corners of one's filesystem. Enjoy your clean Mac with just a few...
  96. claudel

    Aura Dobro IRs

    Works fine for me w/Firefox... Thanks for posting that...
  97. claudel

    Expression pedal assigned to control a phaser in Vibe mode does not work.

    It's possible to set the rate to LFO1 Sync and have the phaser still respond to the expression pedal, but you have to set the pedal to control the actual LFO1 rate rather than the rate in the phaser block...
  98. claudel

    Airline Lost my Suhr.

    I do this to all my bolt-on neck guitars and basses. It really tightens up the neck joint and makes it easy to toss one in a suitcase where it is marginally safer. Glad yours finally made it back home...
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