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  1. digitalwaveform

    Need suggestions on working with Modifiers & Global Performance Controls

    I used an expression pedal for years, but I really like having a leaner setup and I found it hard to get the sweet spot live. Often I'd listen to clips of me after and found I'd have a tendency to be too wet. I've been working a lot on trying to be a lot more judicious with my delays. I find i'm...
  2. digitalwaveform

    Need suggestions on working with Modifiers & Global Performance Controls

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try it after my shows this weekend and let you know how it works.
  3. digitalwaveform

    Need suggestions on working with Modifiers & Global Performance Controls

    I still get a noticeable artifact when doing this. Crazy, I know you'd think you wouldn't with just the Mix changing but try it, it hiccups.
  4. digitalwaveform

    Need suggestions on working with Modifiers & Global Performance Controls

    Hi Everyone, Sorry for the long post. Looking for a few tips on switching delay mix and feedback settings, but it also applies to other common modifier destinations like Amp Drive. I have Control Switch 1 set to Delay Mix (and Level and Feedback). I assign a switch so it toggles between them...
  5. digitalwaveform

    Ty Tabor Talk

    Ty's tone from the classic albums has 3 main components that essentially has very little in common with later live tones and clips. The only way to come close to those classic tones is by using single coils, you'll never get the chime and massive cut he gets on a humbucker. The closest way to...
  6. digitalwaveform

    Scene Controller Question

    Hi all, I've been researching this for a couple of days but I'm too busy with Christmas to keep hunting so figured I'd ask the group. If it's been covered feel free to point me to the post. What I'm trying to do is maximize CPU thru using the Input Boost in the Amp block instead of dedicated...
  7. digitalwaveform

    If you're not sure...the FM9 is a beast!

    I hear a significant upgrade over the AXE FXII, the amp modeling to me is richer and more realistic. I know that sounds trite and has been said for years about a particular new revision of something. But I noticed instantly and feel it's quite noticeable. As far as switches, everyone is...
  8. digitalwaveform

    If you're not sure...the FM9 is a beast!

    Another positive chapter to add to my experience from a show Saturday. I have a dedicated acoustic pedalboard that I tweak yearly, most of it stays the same but I may swap something in and out if I find a more efficient way of doing things. I spent a couple days last week sort of cloning my AC...
  9. digitalwaveform

    If you're not sure...the FM9 is a beast!

    I was in the same boat. The FM3 for me was, from a functionality stand point, a step back with the amount of switches it has compared to the AX8. I would have needed to purchase additional foot switches to make it work and I didn't want the extra expense and cabling and set up. The FM9 in...
  10. digitalwaveform

    If you're not sure...the FM9 is a beast!

    I'm upgrading from an AX8 and owned a AXE FX II and Ultra before that. The FM9 is a tremendous leap in every category. I've gigged hundreds of shows on the AX8 since I got it years ago. The FM9 is a substantial upgrade in every way that matters to me. First things first, sound quality. FM9 is...
  11. digitalwaveform

    Announcing the New FM9 Amp Modeler/FX Processor

  12. digitalwaveform

    SPDIF or AES as external FX Loop?

    USB, AES, SPDIF - if you're going to go digital in the studio and not use analog, you're only going to use one of those connections at a time as output to DAW anyway. That's a lot of real estate in all those other hardware outs just sitting there not being utilized. All paths should be 'open for...
  13. digitalwaveform

    SPDIF or AES as external FX Loop?

    I've done this with all my audio interfaces since the late 90's. Fractal analog in to DAW interface, ADAT optical to Eclipse, AES to H3000, SPDIF to Lexicons. Would be an ENORMOUS game changer to have this happen internally and NOT require and external unit like a MOTU 828. I have an 828 from...
  14. digitalwaveform

    SPDIF or AES as external FX Loop?

    Can you run a SPDIF device and AES and use them as an FX Loops send/return and still use all analog ins/outs? ie. Eclipse (or H8000 etc) in AES Loop, PCM-80 in SPDIF.
  15. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    If you could use the spdif on the Fractals as a loop it would be so badass. I have so much legacy gear I would put in the loop. The whole reason I stopped using the analog loop is because I need out A and B to have separate level controls, one for FOH and one for my wedge on stage so I can turn...
  16. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    Cool rig. I have the same deal at home with a PCM80. MPX 1 and Intelliverb as well. It sounds amazeballs, but it's just way to big for me to take out anymore unless it's a special show. I carry PA too so I just can't bring out 14 spaces of gear unless the venue has sound. Interesting you say...
  17. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    I can't hit the like button enough on this!
  18. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    I did this for years, but now I'm rebuilding from scratch with an AX8 and I want to keep everything within the box so I can have the smallest rig possible for fly dates and when space is a premium
  19. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    By ear is ok for a patch or two but I'm trying to recreate a decade of triaxis/eclipse patches, it's incrediblly laborious as it is, anything that helps me speed it up helps. There's only so much time to program. A/Bing against one rig to the next takes a long time, esp since there are so many...
  20. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    Thanks for the response. Yes you do have the parameters listed, just like any other modulation, but again, the way it's labeled in the Fractal isn't exactly the same as other units. That's not a slight on the Fractal at all, but it can be challenging when going between different units. ie...
  21. digitalwaveform

    On a Delay quest, looking for info...

    Hey all. Been searching for a previous thread for a while, and I just can't find the post. I believe quite some time ago Cliff or someone at Fractal posted a detailed list explaining all the parameters in the delay block in detail, specifically, the modulation section. I'm trying to locate it...
  22. digitalwaveform

    Still struggling with the ac30tb model

    I was gonna mess with it tonight. After I couldn't jell with it, I dialed in the Morgan and Matchless so I haven't fired up the 30TB in a while to revisit it. Very interested to see if I hear the changes tho.
  23. digitalwaveform

    Still struggling with the ac30tb model

    Found this thread very interesting. I've never been able to make the AC30TB have the attack I've really wanted either, I thought I just didn't know how to dial it in, so I've always used other models like the Morgan or Matchless, I've found those have gotten me much, much closer to what I want...
  24. digitalwaveform

    using the fractal at live venues

    Short answer is: Do your homework. But in general, if it's not your system, or soundguy, it can be a very rough experience and not just for you. How many monitor mixes are there? Will you have your own? If it's a small divey jam often there is just 1 mix along the front with just Vox, maybe 2...
  25. digitalwaveform

    Upgraded to Quantum from 16.01... presets sounds shitty

    Wow. So let me get this straight, the release notes say, 'If you upgrade multiple firmware versions, you must rebuild your presets."? Oh and if you're reluctant to do it, the forum will all pile on and make you feel like shit. This attitude is precisely why some players are down on this...
  26. digitalwaveform

    Using my old Delay Pedal friends again! And loving it!

    Just have to chime in. A consistent response I see all over this forum to practically every user who does anything 'outside-of-the-box' of the Axe is immediately asked, 'Why would you do that when you can do it in the Axe??" I think at this point, most people who have spent more than a few...
  27. digitalwaveform

    Getting the right tone from a Tele

    Sounds like what's happening to you is totally normal! Happens to me too. If you use bright patches to start with. I got around this and set up 2 banks of presets, one for humbuckers, one for single coils, and even some just for Tele's. A strat with a humbucker is still not really gonna be...
  28. digitalwaveform

    So I played through a Two Rock combo yesterday.....

    Just a quick post of my take on this thread. I've been doing FRFR for a few years now, and it's been cool. But I was doing a bunch of gear maintenance lately and going thru gear and for the hell of it plugged in my old system. Fractal(Cab and pwr amp sims off)>Eclipse>Boogie stereo tube power...
  29. digitalwaveform

    NEED ADVICE-Studio Monitors to Live Wedge. How to compensate for differences?

    The way I see it, looking at the freq response, if there's a 5db boost at 200hz, and it's there on the speakers spec, and it's measurable, and I can hear it, then something like a Match EQ or Tone Matching or Ozone should be able to capture that. The question is, how to compensate for it. I...
  30. digitalwaveform

    NEED ADVICE-Studio Monitors to Live Wedge. How to compensate for differences?

    Thanks for the reply. I totally agree, in an optimum world, I could soundcheck long, or have the guys hang out at rehearsal or crank it at home. None of which are options for me. Like in my reply below, I can't come close to 1/2 of gig volume in my condo, we never rehearse and we don't...
  31. digitalwaveform

    NEED ADVICE-Studio Monitors to Live Wedge. How to compensate for differences?

    Totally get it. And I agree. But it just can't really happen for me. We don't rehearse, we only line check. Actually soundchecks of any length happen maybe 6-8 times a year and it's still just for FOH mix, not to dick with people's sounds more then a quick 2 min tweak. Wish I could, but cranking...
  32. digitalwaveform

    NEED ADVICE-Studio Monitors to Live Wedge. How to compensate for differences?

    Hey everyone, I considered posting this in the User Cabs and IRs or Tone Matching or Cab-Lab sections, wasn't sure which so I'm posting here. If it needs to be moved, so be it. Here's my dilemma, I'll try to keep it short if I can. I gig out on an RCF 12-SMA. My studio uses JBL...
  33. digitalwaveform

    Preset advice needed for studio vs live

    In general I find things are either usually too bright at concert volume or way too bass heavy/boomy. What may sounds great at bedroom studio levels playing with some tracks generally doesn't work on a stage with shit acoustics and tons of bass build up, kick drum etc. Every room is different...
  34. digitalwaveform

    Preset advice needed for studio vs live

    Basically, yes. I have 2 sets of presets, or at the very least, my 'live sounds' and the rest are my studio tones. I've found almost nothing I do in my studio translates live. For one, my studio monitors aren't what I play thru live so there's a huge gap there. Also, playing in a controlled...
  35. digitalwaveform

    Tweeter squeal ruined the rehearsal last night!

    I can appreciate that it's not happening for some, but I'm not going to replace my PU's when it's only happening when I'm using the wedge and not with other 'real' amps.
  36. digitalwaveform

    Tweeter squeal ruined the rehearsal last night!

    I'm using Arcane pickups in my Trussart Tele.
  37. digitalwaveform

    Tweeter squeal ruined the rehearsal last night!

    It's not specific to the Q12, I use an RCA and I get a similar issue with my Tele. Tele is very bright in the bridge position, and yes, it can be harsh, but with a real amp, or when I used the AXE into a pwr amp and cab it never was like it is now with a wedge. It's a super high pitched...
  38. digitalwaveform

    Doh

    Well, that's really nice in concept, but if that were the case I'd be on 1.0. There is quite simply no way I could ever do an update that affected the sound of the unit and test it out in a sterile studio and then get to a gig at stage volume in front of 300 people and have a dense mix and have...
  39. digitalwaveform

    Doh

    Please do not remove the users ability to select firmwares. In the last year or so firmware updates have had tremendous impacts on the unit (IMHO) - and there is nothing worse then doing an update, checking your patches, getting to a gig and realizing, 'oh boy, I have a LOT of tweaking to do.'...
  40. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    Yea, it's a head scratcher as I've always angled my backline (ie Bogner 1x12's) up at me as i'm 6'2 and otherwise they just melt the first 5 rows faces and my feet but I can't hear anything. So I always angled them up forever. And the wedge is basically the exact same angle, so it's puzzling the...
  41. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    Last comment about the OP. I think a lot of times guitar players think too much like guitar players when evaluating something and put it thru their own fliter and say, 'I'd be happy with that tone, or what does it matter?" The OP asked if you could hear a difference. Not if you liked it. If you...
  42. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    Well, by loud as hell I mean stage volume to compete onstage with a rock drummer hitting hard in a 300+person venue with full house PA, wedges etc. Floor shaking, pant vibrating loud. I'm incredibly skeptical of it being a phase issue with any pickups or guitars. All these guitars 'feedbacked'...
  43. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    I'll try it at the gig tonight.
  44. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    I know, I just really don't feel like doubling my rigs size and weight. I like having my rig in a 4 space softcase instead of heavy racks etc etc.
  45. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    And here in lays what I consider to be the single biggest issue I have with the AXE. I can't say it's the cycling of the pickup that you mentioned. I think (in my testing) it has to do with how the power amp modeling reacts with a wedge. I cannot, under any circumstances get controlled feedback...
  46. digitalwaveform

    Do You Hear a Difference

    I definitely hear a difference. The first half of the clip has more weight and pronounced low mids and thickness as well as what seems like more saturation or gain then the second half of the clip. To my ears it could be simply a matter of more gain. Think this translates into what feels like a...
  47. digitalwaveform

    Axe Fx Live Gig ?

    Oh, and don't turn it down either. Once you have the mix the way you want onstage the last thing you want to do is ruin it by turing the volume off and trying to find it visually - which won't happen since the pots have no marking or detents - you eyeball it kinda then use your ear. And at stage...
  48. digitalwaveform

    Axe Fx Live Gig ?

    I would never, ever, ever advise powering down between sets. Absolutely no reason too this and you risk a whole shit ton of problems. Mainly your FOH/monitors or personal monitors being shredded by you power cycling and them not being muted by the sound guy, or if your band runs them yourself...
  49. digitalwaveform

    About the Axe-Fx II XL

    Updated product looks great. As a longtime user who owned 2 Ultras and currently a II I have a few questions about the upcoming release. I've had some power user wish list requests that I'm wondering if this product can now do. I use the Axe with Output 1 going to FOH and output 2 to my stage...
  50. digitalwaveform

    Quick Report from Dweezilla 2013 -- an unofficial “Fractal Fest East”

    Sounds like a lot of fun, and very informative. I'd love to make it sometime. My suggestion to the parties that be that put this event together - in the future please try not to schedule it on a holiday. For those of us gigging guys, I ALWAYS gig on and around July 4th. Actually had 2 shows on...
  51. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    Great idea, never thought about a global PEQ like that. I'm gonna mess with that when I have downtime next week, I like the idea of globally raising cleans and dirties independently.
  52. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    I'd settle for a global brickwall limiter - even if it sounded like shit, it would save a lot of speakers from blowing up. It's for a whole other thread, but it's something that would be cool to have vol optimization. I could see it using the tone matching - play your gtr thru the TM block...
  53. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    There's another point too which is how it takes a long long time to balance all your volumes across all your patches. So when something like this happens with an upgrade it's pretty mission critical for gigging guys. So sure, I can just lower everything 3 DB, but at stage volume if I...
  54. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    I can do that, but I can't believe that this is a behavior that is a feature or intended. If I'm in a blank preset and just pull up 1 of 20 different amps and attach it to any of 20 different cabs and it's totally clipping - that's pretty counter intuitive, not to mention has never happened...
  55. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    Yes, many are.
  56. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    Ugg.
  57. digitalwaveform

    Ginormous amounts of clipping after 7.0 install

    So I upgraded to 7.0 and all my distorted heavy presets are clipping out 1 red now. Given that it's taken a long time to get the volumes balanced between patches for live use, this is obviously no fun since lowering these means I have to lower everything else respectively across the board...
  58. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    It's cranked, 2 o'clock, that's ripping loud if I set out 1 to the same level.
  59. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    Cool guys thanks, I'll mess with it at soundcheck tomorrow, I know I've made the correct settings, only thing I can think of is maybe a random CC being transmitted from my controller muting the out or something - only thing I can think of.
  60. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    Weird. I thought it should be as easy as just making the I/O setting, but wasn't sure.
  61. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    Nope, just front input.
  62. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    Yup, tried 2 different cables too, balanced and unbalanced.
  63. digitalwaveform

    Copy Out 1 to Out 2

    I think I know the answer, but if I want to copy Out 1 to Out 2 to have a dedicated level control to FOH and one for my backline wedge - I can't just choose "Copy Out 1 to Out 2"? Do I have to have an FX Loop in each patch? I tried just selecting it in the I/O page but wasn't getting any output...
  64. digitalwaveform

    ULTRA FIRMWARE 11.0 MAY 9 2011

    Re: ULTRA FIRMWARE 9.01 Just an alternate point of view - Part of being a software developer in any industry that's successful is not just about chasing the perpetual trail of user requests - it's actually thinking a few steps ahead. Innovation doesn't happen by chasing feature requests...
  65. digitalwaveform

    Curious: Why does the LF seem to be more popular than the LG

    Glad to know I'm not the only one who's gotten terrible service. Completely unresponsive has been my experience. It's enormously frustrating to have close to a thousand dollar midi controller that I can't get to do the things it's supposed too - that I can easily do with my 8 yr old Ground...
  66. digitalwaveform

    Question about Realtime Sysex

    Arrrg! This is such a pain. The Axe not transmitting beat clocks still means I can't just use it with a single 7 pin midi cable from my Liquid Foot pro. With previous processors, I'd just take midi out into whatever needed beat clocks. Now I have to run midi from the controller into a Midi Time...
  67. digitalwaveform

    Question about Realtime Sysex

    Is the realtime sysex output of the Axe designed to be only used with the upcoming Fractal Midi controller, or does it transmit beat clock to other devices? I've set realtime transmit to 'on' and 'all' - pluged midi out into midi in of my Eclipse, set it's tap source to 'beat clock' - nothing...
  68. digitalwaveform

    Ultra does not transmit Midi Beat Clocks?

    Hi all, long time lurker, first time poster. usually I can get this stuff but been loosing my mind the last few hours. Got my Ground Control set up with an IA switch sending CC#16 (latching) to control Tempo Tap on AXE (I can't get the Axe to respond to Momentary). Works great. Problem is, it...
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