Axe-FX as outboard eq/comp/limiter/ec

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famished

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How many of you have tried using the Axe as a piece of outboard gear, to eq/comp/limit tracks? To do so would mean that the Axe is working in 48kHz, which means that your sessions would be best off in 48 or 96kHz. But this means that your music isn't as transportable to the common CD format of 44.1kHz. Have any of you thought about this? I know that some are saying that CD audio is a walking dinosaur anyway.
 
famished said:
How many of you have tried using the Axe as a piece of outboard gear, to eq/comp/limit tracks? To do so would mean that the Axe is working in 48kHz
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Huh? What's the imagined relationship between how you use the Axe and its clock rate?
 
Well, I would think that having a lot of conversions would not be desirable, especially if we were not converting from rates which are multiples of each other. I.e., if you are using your Axe as outboard gear, then wouldn't it make sense to choose to work in DAW sessions which are 48 or 96kHz? And if so, that makes conversion to 44.1 less desirable, no? I'm just wondering how people who've tried it are finding they are better off.

I should add that these questions assume the audio is being bussed out to the Axe digitally.
 
if you want to use the AxeFx digitally, you're stuck with 48kHz. No 96.
I personally think the converters are of such quality that you don't lose anything by going analog, assuming you have decent converters for your DAW.
 
I don't have decent converters for my DAW unfortunately. But aside from that, there's still the issue I was trying to raise. If you attempt to use the Axe as outboard gear from your DAW, to provide ambience, eq, compression, limiting, etc., then you're coming out of the DAW digitally, going to the Fractal, and then back again. I would think preferably you're not converting from 44.1 to 48 and back again. Therefore, I was curious whether people who use the Fractal as an outboard piece of gear are building their music sessions on the DAW in 48 kHz
 
No I just go analog into 96KHz, I really cannot be bothered converting my whole project to 48kHz then back again whenever I want to record a guitar track. Still sounds amazing.

"But this means that your music isn't as transportable to the common CD format of 44.1kHz."

Well it is, I just bounce and dither to 44.1kHz when the mix is complete.
 
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