No - I’m not saying “What is the current behavior?” - that is as you describe it. I’m talking about the real world, where having all of your cabinets offline/muted, there wouldn’t be any sound to generate an ‘Air’ signal. I submit the behavior is wrong because of that.
In all my years of playing I've never come across a real cab that had a mute switch either. Besides that, one has to beg the question, why the hell would you have all 4 cabs muted anyway? If you need to mute the output of the Cab block, set its bypass mode to Mute Out and bypass the block.
That's not a good argument. While in an extremely technical sense it's accurate, it is based on a situation that makes no sense in practical use. WHY would you turn off all the cabs and continue playing? So you could hear the strings only?
the cab input signal is routed to a separate mixer bus where you can turn it up when your real cabs or IR slots are offline/muted. does that fix the situation?
yup, your use case makes sense and the question is logical. the thread went another way, so many answers were addressing that, not necessarily your question thumbs
I can understand that confusion but when testing and comparing IRs it makes sense to me to have nothing else contributing to the sound, and possibly polluting their sound. The time to turn on air is afterwards.
+1, find the IR you like, then give it some air to let it breath.
For a Headphone-Player like me it´s important to have a little room on the sound (I LOVE the Axe for the Room-Parameters) to feel comfortable enough to assess a sound. Like I would test a real amp in a room. No big Reverb, no Delay, just the Amps and the Cab (and the headphone-correction curve
and of course some of the great new compressor block to have that "real-amp"-feeling). But it would also make sense to judge a sound with all effects you will use for example in the mix. This is just my way to play and test IR´s. And I can understand your position too. And if you play with FRFR or Monitors etc. - thats again another talk. (And every Cowboy and -girl rides his own horse...). No big deal, like I said. In the end I´m so thankful for the air/room-options. Especially with a little compression from the new beta I´m a very, very happy guy with my sound.
I use headphones almost exclusively at home, so all my preliminary preset adjustments are done with them. Once I've settled on a particular sound then I remove the compensating headphone EQ, and start messing with the ambient adjustments.For a Headphone-Player like me it´s important to have a little room on the sound (I LOVE the Axe for the Room-Parameters) to feel comfortable enough to asses the sound. No Reverb, no Delay, just the Amps and the Cab (and the headphone-correction curve
