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  1. bongo

    Random Notes and Chords................Beautiful!

    That's a purdy Ibanez.
  2. bongo

    IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, READ THIS!

    Why that's just...too dumb to not be true!
  3. bongo

    AFIII Axe-Fx 3 doing Chet Atkins (Fingerstyle)

    I'm lacking words to express how much I love this! It's such a beautiful song, and this arrangement is just wonderful. Cool stuff.
  4. bongo

    [Resolved] Upgrade to OS X Mojave - Now No Signal In Reaper From Axe-Fx III

    Oh, that's right. That drove me nuts when I was trying to connect a Scarlett to my MacBook a couple of months ago. "Enable microphone? No thank you, I have much better audio sources! Hey, why does nothing work?"
  5. bongo

    I have a weakness for Anderson's

    Dayumn.
  6. bongo

    You know you are spoiled

    I didn't even get a pony...:(
  7. bongo

    I do not need another guitar…

    If only I had another guitar, then I bet I would play a lot better!
  8. bongo

    The ultimate badly-worded hack attempt

    Hey, if Firewall has defined it...
  9. bongo

    There's always time ...

    Geez, that looks pretty rough, dude. Hang in there.
  10. bongo

    New owner intimidation

    If you're just starting out the the II, I would also recommend updating to the last firmware update, to use as your starting point. It's damned good, IMO, and incorporates as many of Cliff's endless innovations in the name of accuracy as will fit within the hardware limitations of the unit. If...
  11. bongo

    'Hanging On' - Vibrato Lux & Plex Verb chill - video and preset

    Just gorgeous, again!
  12. bongo

    Ken Andrews / Failure; shout-out to FAS

    I think that's the first time I've seen that aluminum neck design since the old Travis Bean guitars. Jerry Garcia used to have one that I loved. The neck was a continuous piece of aircraft aluminum extending from the machine heads to the bridge. Supposedly did interesting things for sustain, but...
  13. bongo

    When’s the last time you received or wrote a personal letter?

    My mom is turning 96 in a few months, after surviving a bad cancer scare almost 40 years ago. She hasn't been able to hear well enough to talk on the phone for many years, and now has too hard a hard time handling the technical side of email as well, so we have been strictly limited to written...
  14. bongo

    Axe-Fx III Firmware Version 4.03

    Just zoom in on a small area, and the pattern is bound to simplify! Kind of like the universe, really.
  15. bongo

    Anyone ever "satinize" their guitar's neck?

    Yeah, not being a very good speller, I too accidentally satanized my guitar. Now I'm afraid to go near the damned thing.
  16. bongo

    Favorite Clean amp in the III?

    I do have a little hair. In fact, my mirror seems to think I have a little less every year (but it's not to be trusted.)
  17. bongo

    Your favorite music documentaries

  18. bongo

    While My Guitar Gently Weeps

    (Well, the performance seems to be making generous use of a whammy bar, but I assume you're more asking about the tone.) The tone sounds doubled, or chorused, to me, which, at that time, suggests they probably used Artificial Double Tracking (ADT), a technique developed for The Beatles during...
  19. bongo

    Just In Case Anyone Else Breaks Off A Headphone Tip In The Axe-FX III

    Oh, hallelujah! This danged thing had been stuck in the headphone jack of my mark II for over a year.
  20. bongo

    Goodbye Old Friend

    Aw, what a cutie.
  21. bongo

    My strings smell like onions.

    Advanced Settings->Olfactory->Sweet/Savory Balance...set anywhere on the sweet side of midpoint. Should clear it up.
  22. bongo

    DAW preference for old dog

    Oy. That is not a good flashback! 1990 or so? My first was a Akai reel-to-reel, with monaural sound-on-sound. Also not a great flashback!
  23. bongo

    AFIII The III does a very chill Sugaree

    Nope, it's Hunter/Garcia, but loosely inspired by the Elizabeth Cotton song, "Shake Sugaree," which is quite different. Have a little song Won't take long Sing it right Once or twice Oh, lordy me Didn't I shake sugaree? Everything I got is done and pawned Everything I got is done and pawned...
  24. bongo

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 9.04 Firmware Release

    Walking across it? Ay, you're lucky!
  25. bongo

    Hopefully I will see everyone again :-)

    I'll be thinking of you, brother. Be well!
  26. bongo

    Oh The Horror!

    Man, I shudder to think what googling "nut removal" might do to your targeted advertising results!
  27. bongo

    Fractal Audio B-Stock Sale!

    This was apparently an offer I could not refuse...I'm sure my wife will understand. :smiley:
  28. bongo

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 7.00 Public Beta

    A very backwards tribe, some might say...
  29. bongo

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 7.00 Public Beta #2

    fireworks, calliopes and clowns. (old hippie non sequitur...)
  30. bongo

    Whiplash.

    J.K. Simmons?
  31. bongo

    Quantum 7 for AX8 ?

    that's actually pretty good!
  32. bongo

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 7.00 Public Beta #2

    I usually just hear "old fart."
  33. bongo

    ODS Cleans in Q7.00b with a St Vincent - Video - Preset

    beautiful!
  34. bongo

    Axe-Fx II "Quantum" Rev 1.00 Public Beta

    I may be wrong here, but it seems like the major components of this quantum leap (so to speak) are not really associated with new parameters which require interface changes. So all one would not have available in AxeEdit would be the features new to the f20.betas? Seems like a tradeoff I'm...
  35. bongo

    All non-Fractal user cabs sound like an AM radio

    I remember a similar effect when the speaker size parameter was getting mis-set for Y cabs. Don't know why it would mess with your user cabs, but maybe something to check.
  36. bongo

    Axe-Fx II Firmware 18.00 Public Beta

    Pigs love strawberries!
  37. bongo

    Looking for Boulder CO A2 Guru to hire

    Huh, how many of us are in the Front Range? I'm in Fort Collins also.
  38. bongo

    New CD recorded with AxeFx used for 5 different string instruments!

    This is really quite cool, Per! Particularly liked the sound on Nakhla -- is that alternating between the fretless harp-guitar and bowed cello? Like the unique voice of each instrument, and love your bass stick tone. Really quite cool.
  39. bongo

    New Firmware 15 Factory Presets

    Wowza. Hopefully this isn't just my ears hearing what they want to hear, but on my first play through of the new bank A, virtually everything sounds fantastic. Definitely lingered on some amps I seldom play. Wowza wowza wowza.
  40. bongo

    Most Underrated guitar solos of all time

    For pop stuff, I always enjoyed Amos Garrett's solo on Midnight At The Oasis. Very tasty.
  41. bongo

    So, V14...

    I'm personally holding out for a floormat pitch shifter...
  42. bongo

    A new track featuring the "Cavernous" preset from 13.07

    very pretty sound!
  43. bongo

    I asked my dog if he could hear the difference between Axe-FX II and a real amp

    geez, fantastic as always!
  44. bongo

    MOONFLOOD: Kraken Lullaby

    wow, quite wonderful!
  45. bongo

    Vitali Bilinski – Impressions

    Very nice! Nice textures, and a lot going on without feeling crowded or too busy. Good stuff.
  46. bongo

    Ballad "Man do I love my Axe-FX tone" Besame Mucho"

    Nice! I've always loved that song.
  47. bongo

    Akai EIE Pro - Anyone have info. on this?

    Make sure you read all available reviews. It seems it either works well enough for people or has serious issues, including occasional bursts of white noise. I encountered the latter, and returned mine after one day. I ended up going with a focusrite scarlett, which has been quiet, intuitive...
  48. bongo

    Your concert experiences: 60s, 70s

    Probably some data corruption in that area of the hard drive, but let's see... (openers listed before headliners) ~1970 Tower of Power/Santana ~1971 Loggins & Messina/Elvin Bishop Band/Stoneground 8/12/72 Grateful Dead ~1973 Earthquake/Mahavishnu Orchestra/Emerson, Lake, & Palmer ~1973 Lynyrd...
  49. bongo

    Who owns this specific Axe-Fx?

    clearly a born tweaker!
  50. bongo

    X/Y Cab issue.

    I've found that for some reason the speaker size parameter for the Y cab is defaulting to an unusable value (cranked full left, I think.) Reset it to the cab A default (1.0, I believe?) and it will sound like a normal cab.
  51. bongo

    sitting here in limbo...

    ...as one of the worst fires in colorado history rages out of control a few miles -- hopefully still more than ten -- away from my house, having blown up from 2 acres saturday morning to about 40,000 acres today. my wife and I are okay, but evacuated, unable to go back. My axe-fx and all my...
  52. bongo

    Buttery Broken Tones in 6.0

    Just gorgeous. well done.
  53. bongo

    Help with Axe-FX II and Studio One V2

    I, too, just defined an aggregate device. Seems to work fine.
  54. bongo

    Who was your first Concert?

    First would have been Tower of Power opening for Santana in 1970. A weird, low ceilinged, cement convention space at Cal Expo, long, long before they built an ampitheater there. Third show was in that same space, Loggins-Messina opening for Elvin Bishop and Stoneground. I would have been 13 for...
  55. bongo

    "Tone Matching" Preview

    Helmets may or may not be optional, but don't forget the diapers. 8)
  56. bongo

    What Song is Stuck in Your Brain Today??

    Thumbs up on Eight Days A Week. Entered my life when I was ten. My mom took us to the record store, I got the just released Revolver, my brother got Beatles VI. Great stuff. For some reason, I woke up today with a song I hadn't thought of in decades in my head, a pop duet sung by two people...
  57. bongo

    argh...headphone jack advice needed

    The headphone jack on my Axe-Fx just re-enacted the old joke about the hooker and the leper, and kept the tip. Plug went in TRS, came out RS. The tip is stuck in the back of the jack. How the heck can I get it out again?
  58. bongo

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

    Considering there was no real precedent, and that he did it with a maimed left hand, Django was amazing. Jimi also blazed a lot of unprecedented territory. My current favorite is probably Steve Kimock.
  59. bongo

    and I thought guitarists were bad...

    Not everybody relates to that iodine like overtone, but once it clicks, it stays clicked. Good Stuff.
  60. bongo

    Ambient Swells, how to do on Axe Fx II?

    I've had at least some success two ways, 1) using a gate with slow attack and medium ratio, and 2) using a volume block, controlled by an envelope with a slow attack.
  61. bongo

    Incoming! Incoming! Incoming!

    Most of the issues I had hearing these turned out to be due to not having user cabs loaded, and were solved by swapping in a stock cab. YMMV.
  62. bongo

    Denver get-together: How about Sept 10th?

    I'm up in Fort Collins, and don't set the alarm on Saturdays, so 1:00 sounds better than 12:00 to me!
  63. bongo

    Denver Area group T-Shirt buy?

    We never came up with a date, did we? (btw, anybody else seeing ZPZ/RTF @ the Paramount Saturday?)
  64. bongo

    Denver-area get-together?

    August 27th daytime might be an opportunity -- I know I'll be in town for the Zappa Plays Zappa/Return To Forever show at the Paramount that night.
  65. bongo

    Nashua->Shrewsbury->Hodgkins...why do I know these names?

    Hmmm, tough room today.
  66. bongo

    Nashua->Shrewsbury->Hodgkins...why do I know these names?

    Hey, everyone's going to die, son! We just don't normally receive a tracking number ahead of time. Reminds me of boarding a small flight between islands in Hawaii, and hearing the steward recite the safety instructions by memory, not really listening himself to what he was saying. Got to the...
  67. bongo

    Nashua->Shrewsbury->Hodgkins...why do I know these names?

    It's going to be a long couple of days, I think.
  68. bongo

    My first Video of the Axe-FX 2

    Actually, my first thought was. "A noble spirit embiggens even the smallest man." Sounds great, dude. Thanks for taking the time.
  69. bongo

    Axe-Fx II Technical Questions Thread

    Damn, that's pretty much a deal-breaker for me, I'm afraid. 8^)
  70. bongo

    Axe-Fx II Technical Questions Thread

    Sadly, whistling "Flight of the Bumblebee" is harder to master than "Angry Birds"!
  71. bongo

    Where do you buy your guitars from?

    Not to worry -- that's why God invented duct tape.
  72. bongo

    Where do you buy your guitars from?

    Age, yes. Arthritis or Repetitive Stress Injuries, not so much! Another downside to age is that when I first picked up a guitar, the collective consciousness didn't have a lot of tricks up its sleeve yet. Les Paul was actually pretty advanced. Rockabilly, some pentatonic blues cliches. You...
  73. bongo

    Envelope tips for dummies?

    Looking for some help in applying either envelopes or ASDRs to achieve a couple kind of basic things... 1) A simple fast volume swell, as if rolling up the volume knob just after picking a note. sensitive enough to retrigger with each new note edge. 2) A similar round-every-note effect in...
  74. bongo

    9.02 Amp Model Poll

    You guys are hurting me here. 9.02 came out when I was two days into a two week vacation, so I'm soaking up every word of these threads while sitting 1,000 miles away from my guitars. :shock: Think I might have to disappear into the basement for a few days once we get back. :mrgreen:
  75. bongo

    Bulb and Mark return with yet another new Haunted Shores son

    :shock: This makes me feel old! :shock: Is it supposed to do that? :D
  76. bongo

    Why the Boost in Volume & is it necessary?

    A parallel path increases the volume because you are effectively doubling the amount of input seen by the amp stage. If you want the parallel paths to arrive at the same level as would a serial path, you need to bring down the levels such that they add up to 100%. You can use the level setting...
  77. bongo

    Marco Sfogli got his Ultra...

    nor for me using midiox. is this a standard patch perhaps?
  78. bongo

    a small slice of fractal evolution

    It occurred to me last night that I've now been a happy Ultra user for a little less than nine months. I came on board shortly after the release of firmware 6.0x, which I believe many thought was itself a significant step forward. For me it was the baseline for starting to learn how to...
  79. bongo

    Help me stand out in the mix

    Huh. It's hard for me to tell what you're looking for, but I think the guitars fit nicely in that mix. I think it all sounds pretty good.
  80. bongo

    THE dumbest question evar

    :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
  81. bongo

    Marriage dilemma...

    my marriage preservation strategy has involved giving up sleep. she gets full access until about 10:00 at night, most nights. that said, I happen to know she's going off to tai chi camp next week. :twisted:
  82. bongo

    strange.......

    What would be strange would be if you posted something which wasn't excellently done! This is normal for you.
  83. bongo

    Who can count high?

    but I'm waiting for the one after...
  84. bongo

    Built my first patch...

    :D it can take a couple of days for peeps to check out your post, so don't sweat it. I'm seeing it for the first time now, but my mobile doesn't handle flash players, so I won't hear your clips until I log onto the desktop later! I'll check 'em out then. Cheers!
  85. bongo

    hairy clean tone

    Dang, dude. Do you think if I learn how to make that face I might be able to play as well as you do? :) Tasteful as ever.
  86. bongo

    Six months on with the AFX (and Verve 12ma)

    I've been using that trick with an expression pedal -- assigning the same pedal to amp drive and level, then adjusting the slopes so that the level backs off as gain increases. Easy access to a wide range of gains within one patch.
  87. bongo

    Scott's Bogner Preset - STP test tone with Firmware 7.18

    You're right, that's a nice balance between being way busted up and yet tight enough to discern the notes of a chord. Custom cabs or stock?
  88. bongo

    Axe-Fx Standard Firmware 7.17 Released

    Yes, well, obviously not ideal, but if you apply a formant filter and a little parametric EQ you can probably get that to sound pretty good.
  89. bongo

    Mission Expression Pedal - Outstanding!

    Wow, the SP-2 looks interesting. So you could for example plug this into both pedal inputs of the Axe-Fx? Am I correct that the polarity reversal switch would not be needed for Axe-Fx use?
  90. bongo

    time for a reload!

    Sweet & tasty! Well done.
  91. bongo

    old dogs, new tricks.

    Yeah, I do own them both (I'm a fan of both companies, and both gave me great upgrade prices from synths I already own.) Both have incredible power to shape a sound from the ground up. I find Omnisphere a lot easier to get in to, partially because it comes with something like 4000 defined...
  92. bongo

    old dogs, new tricks.

    Well, it's "my" thread, so I doubt it counts as a derail if I join in . :D My only problem with Omnisphere is that my getting the Ultra in December put my Omnisphere learning curve on the back burner. I personally find it a lot more useful than Atmosphere. I should figure out how to draw a...
  93. bongo

    Firmware Version 7.16 Ready (Standard Added)

    Hah, I say! You underestimate our powers to ignore things which confuse us!
  94. bongo

    Firmware Version 7.16 Ready (Standard Added)

    You shall never defeat the Fogeys. We are sneaky and treacherous. :twisted:
  95. bongo

    When you first got an Axe-Fx, what did you want to know?

    I mostly wanted to know if my mortgage company would allow me to skip a few years of payments so I could stay home in the basement practicing and playing. (sadly, the answer was "no.")
  96. bongo

    old dogs, new tricks.

    Actually, guys, one of the things I need to learn and practice is flying in parts done remotely and integrating them in a new mix. So if anybody feels like adding stuff to this, please feel free, and I'd love it if you could send me any parts you do that you like. It's at 90 bpm, 4/4...
  97. bongo

    old dogs, new tricks.

    Shortly before my tenth birthday, something happened which made me realize what I wanted to play with creatively in this life: The Beatles released the Revolver album. By the time they followed that up with Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, and Abbey Road, I was convinced that multitrack...
  98. bongo

    Using SPDIF: no sounds! Help please!

    Note that I am leaving the mixer un-bypassed, whether recording or not, but muting the spdif in the mixer while monitoring in cubase. Whatever works, obviously. First step is getting sound into the the daw and being able to monitor it.
  99. bongo

    Using SPDIF: no sounds! Help please!

    (See my response to you in connections and routing re the firebox spdif.) 1) make sure bypass is not selected in firebox mixer 2) if monitoring through headphones, click mix to headphones button 3) in control panel set sample rate to 48K 4) in control panel switch to internal sync, then back to...
  100. bongo

    How to hook up Axe-fx and Presonus Firebox

    mine is a little fussy. First, in the firebox mixer there is a red bypass button which defaults to selected. De-select that. If you are monitoring through headphones select mix to headphones. Make sure the Axe-fx is powered on and connected before the next step. Now bring up the firebox...
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