jlagana2002 said:
I am just surprised that people think this is so weird. Not you guys, my friends here.
They say, JUST DO STEREO DUDE. That is not cutting it. So they say, just go mono into 1 cabinet !
WHY JUST 1 cabinet ! Why not mono into 2 cabs. Why is this so odd to people. Some may say it stomps on the other cab, umm no, it creates a WALL OF SOUND. How does it step on itself, ITS MONO !
I just want to know how to maximize this. Meaning, small things I may have to change in the presets to make them TRUE LEFT MONO PRESETS.
This is just not clear yet. Don't be offended if you received a few replies that seem perhaps a little rude... your problem is not clearly defined, and your conclusions (stereo is not cutting it) are demonstratably incorrect.
So let me try to give a little bit of help with a few statements. But for real help, you are going to need to explain a little better how you are set up, what your patches' signal chains look like, and what the problem really is. "Nor cutting it" is not very accurate or precise.
- A true stereo patch will cut it, if set properly. You do not need to reinvent stereo on the Axe-fx (using some hokey dual mono chains to emulate it) in order to achieve true stereo. This is the best stereo processing unit for guitar, period. It can do it if you know how to use the tool
- For a stereo preset to be truly stereo, many things have to happen:
- You must not have a block that collapses to mono *after* the stereo blocks
- The parameters of the stereo blocks must be set appropriately (for example, if you have a chorus block with LFO Phase set to zero, then it's not stereo anymore, but rather mono)
- Panning is crucial. Repeat after me: panning is crucial. If you feed a full stereo signal chain into a stereo cab block (or two mono cab blocks) and if you pan them both dead center, you have just destroyed the entire stereo signal chain and collapsed it to mono. I pan my cabs hard left and hard right for full stereo spread. Some use less radical settings. But whatever you use, panning your cab block dead center will "not cut it".
- The output mode must be set to stereo
- You must use the two outputs from the same pair (duh!), ie L and R from either Output 1 or Output 2.
All of the above is very basic beginner's info. You may already be way beyond that level, I can't possibly know. But this is the sort of info that can make the difference between something that works and something that doesn't.
So your turn. Tell us *exactly* how your gear is hooked up, what your signal chain looks like, what works and what doesn't. And more importantly, please tell us what you mean by "stereo doesn't cut it", because many people on this forum can assure you that yes, stereo *does* cut it, myself included.