JoKeR III
Fractal Fanatic
I was on my way here to create a "What the HECK" thread but thought, hey maybe there's something I can do about it without bothering you good people (Yet here I am, bothering you good people anyway).
After a couple of weeks of just playing around with some of the factory presets, learning to navigate my latest toy and investigating the new-to-me effects, I decided to build my own preset from scratch.
My go to amp lately in the AX8 has been the AC-20 EF86 Treble, provides a great, chewy grind that's simply lovely. Added cab that's familiar to me, the AC-20 DLX MIX, struck an open G chord and voila...WAIT, not even close!!! A great, lush clean tone but nowhere near the tone I had with the AX8.
I remembered a video by @2112 of the Class A amps so I took a peek at it and he got the tone I remembered. Selected another <EMPTY> preset slot and followed his steps to the letter and again, a gorgeous clean tone, but definitely not what was expected nor like the video. Note: One thing did I notice was the Master Volume in the amp block did absolutely nothing, nada, zip.
This got me wondering: Could there be something in the Setup causing this? I had already tried rolling back the firmware, then reinstalling the Beta to no avail. This was a B-Stock unit, who knows if anything had been adjusted or changed? The only thing I had personally done was adjust the Input 1 Level (@25%) but that was it. After a few minutes of looking at everything and eventually blankly staring at a lot of stuff, it was determined that a full reset was the best option.
Selected 'Reset System Parameters' and pressed the button. Readjusted the Input 1 Level then built the preset again and voila, YES! There's the tone I wanted. Cool thing is now, the Axe III sounds even better than before. Don't know what the issue was but it's now fixed.
TL;DR
Moral to the story; with a bit of troubleshooting and research, you can find the answer to most any issue without running straight to the forum screaming HELP!!!
After a couple of weeks of just playing around with some of the factory presets, learning to navigate my latest toy and investigating the new-to-me effects, I decided to build my own preset from scratch.
My go to amp lately in the AX8 has been the AC-20 EF86 Treble, provides a great, chewy grind that's simply lovely. Added cab that's familiar to me, the AC-20 DLX MIX, struck an open G chord and voila...WAIT, not even close!!! A great, lush clean tone but nowhere near the tone I had with the AX8.
I remembered a video by @2112 of the Class A amps so I took a peek at it and he got the tone I remembered. Selected another <EMPTY> preset slot and followed his steps to the letter and again, a gorgeous clean tone, but definitely not what was expected nor like the video. Note: One thing did I notice was the Master Volume in the amp block did absolutely nothing, nada, zip.
This got me wondering: Could there be something in the Setup causing this? I had already tried rolling back the firmware, then reinstalling the Beta to no avail. This was a B-Stock unit, who knows if anything had been adjusted or changed? The only thing I had personally done was adjust the Input 1 Level (@25%) but that was it. After a few minutes of looking at everything and eventually blankly staring at a lot of stuff, it was determined that a full reset was the best option.
Selected 'Reset System Parameters' and pressed the button. Readjusted the Input 1 Level then built the preset again and voila, YES! There's the tone I wanted. Cool thing is now, the Axe III sounds even better than before. Don't know what the issue was but it's now fixed.
TL;DR
Moral to the story; with a bit of troubleshooting and research, you can find the answer to most any issue without running straight to the forum screaming HELP!!!
