Axe-Fx Firmware Version 21.00 Release Candidate (Beta 7)

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Wow! This FW sounds more alive which I didn't think could happen without me tweaking some more to get there. I definitely was not expecting to hear this much difference. I'm honestly thinking that I don't want the next FW upgrade because I don't want to lose what's going on. Kudos Fractal Team.
 
yyz67 said:
You know, my Fart Tone now sounds broken. It used to sound like a full yet tight expansive fart. Now it sounds (and feels) like a wet acrid shart (Uh... I'd better check my drawers).

EDIT: By bad, I ate something different last night and that seems to have affected my flattulence!
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AndyTBND said:
lol. Well everyone has their own flavour. I'm not gonna put it under a bloody scope, but yeah, this is mid rich. Not scooped at all.

One man's mid-rich is another man's 'honky'
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Um, Dude, the proper nomenclature is "Saltine American"....

The only thing odd that I noticed with b7 was involving an apparent mix law change in the chorus requiring a 6dB cut in chorus level to match the previously matched level....
 
I have been an AXE FX user for quite a few years now. I'm soon to be getting my 6th AXE FX.
With that said, I've been on this forum for quite some time and feel something needs to be said.
Almost every time an update comes along to improve our units, some modifications may need to be done, especially if you have changed the factory presets to your liking, or you are using 3rd party presets. You may or may not like the changes, but they are always for the better. If you load BETA versions you may encounter issues, but they always get corrected. Your sound may not be my sound and my sound may not be yours. We all have different ears.
So, when a new version comes out and some of my presets get muddy, trebly, or the volume is not the same as before, etc., I make adjustments to get what I feel is my tone back. I don't complain that this BETA screwed my sound up, or that nothing sounds the same, so I'm going back to version whatever. I tweak and play and wait for the final version.
No one ever has to update if they don't want to, and you can always go back to your favorite firmware. But I can tell you from my experience, every new firmware brings my AXE FX units to a new level. My Son, who hates modeling, has become a fan and plays with the factory presets for hours.
We all welcome catching bugs, but sometimes it's just a setting you need to modify.
With that said, Thank You, Fractal audio, for all the support you have given the community. I, for one, have never had this level of support from any vendor of any gear I have ever purchased.
 
Tommy Tempest said:
I have been an AXE FX user for quite a few years now. I'm soon to be getting my 6th AXE FX.
With that said, I've been on this forum for quite some time and feel something needs to be said.
Almost every time an update comes along to improve our units, some modifications may need to be done, especially if you have changed the factory presets to your liking, or you are using 3rd party presets. You may or may not like the changes, but they are always for the better. If you load BETA versions you may encounter issues, but they always get corrected. Your sound may not be my sound and my sound may not be yours. We all have different ears.
So, when a new version comes out and some of my presets get muddy, trebly, or the volume is not the same as before, etc., I make adjustments to get what I feel is my tone back. I don't complain that this BETA screwed my sound up, or that nothing sounds the same, so I'm going back to version whatever. I tweak and play and wait for the final version.
No one ever has to update if they don't want to, and you can always go back to your favorite firmware. But I can tell you from my experience, every new firmware brings my AXE FX units to a new level. My Son, who hates modeling, has become a fan and plays with the factory presets for hours.
We all welcome catching bugs, but sometimes it's just a setting you need to modify.
With that said, Thank You, Fractal audio, for all the support you have given the community. I, for one, have never had this level of support from any vendor of any gear I have ever purchased.
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Whew! Just when I thought no one was going to whip out a lecture today! :rolleyes:

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My name is mud said:
I have used the batch thing for the first time to turn all the speaker drive to zero in all my presets, and it's better to me like that . that's not night and day but it remove some things that i dont want to hear
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I still never tried batch settings changes, but sounds like it worked OK for you, which is good. I've been playing with Speaker Drive on a few of my favourite presets, and seems it is zeroed in most of my amp blocks to start with. I actually kind of like resetting the amp blocks to the new default settings whenever the firmware changes (is speaker drive at 2.5 on all of them, or coincidence for the ones I have updated so far?) 2.5 sounds good to me, 5 kind of OK, 10 more like putting a hard limiter on the dynamics. I may even want to try that one day, so it's good know it's there, and what it does.

I can see why you might want to zero it out though.

Liam
 
One thing I've noticed with these last couple updates is the low cut switch seems to have a much more drastic effect on the tone (in a good way- love what it does on high gain amps now, didn't use it much before). Am I just hearing things or is this a side-effect of the various other changes?
 
unix-guy said:
I fart in your general direction!

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I have this guy on the back window of my MINI....

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jephjacques said:
I love the sound of farts. That's why I play an 8-string
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An old MB Bass 400 ad with Michael Anthony just dropped in out of the ol' cobweb storage facility....
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Still wondering about the chorus and rotary mix law. Will try it again with the same and other presets today and check if the chorus and rotary are coming through louder than the dry guitar when they're bypassed. Maybe it was just one preset and it got gummed up when the b7 was loaded....

UPDATE:
Tested a couple other presets with the exact same block layout but a different amp, and the issue is not present. Must be the one preset's chorus and rotary blocks got ganked somehow between b4 and b7. Will just recreate the preset from that template, I guess. :)
 
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I may have found another bug. I have the otter quad external switches that I have been using for a couple months, one set up for tap tempo. At my gig tonight I noticed that my sound mutes every time I step on the tap tempo, until I let it go back up. On a break, I set up another tap tempo on the fc-12, and it does not mute the output. Anyone else?

Not a bug. User error. I had accidentally set the feedback return level to go from 0-100 on fc switch 4 instead of fc pedal 4.
 
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