I made the same observations as Hubi and Mic. At least with Marshall type amps.
Additional to the more treble and less bass, it also feels as if the gain is lower than with Ares 1.03 (probably caused by the more dynamic response).
To me it's no "fire and forget update". Have to adjust my presets a bit (or more).
To the people who complain when they don’t hear a difference:
1 Your preset sucks
2 Your speakers suck
3 Your ears suck
4 Your playing sucks
Something I learned years ago is that we each listen for different things. In the pre Quantum days there were releases which people raved about, and I thought there was little difference. Then came a release which really opened up the clean sounds, and the heavy metal merchants were saying that they heard nothing.I've not heard any difference whatsoever after every upgrade since first getting the Axe II when Q.4 was the latest firmware. I've not adjusted my presets since after any upgrade. I'm willing to admit that my ears suck. Or maybe I just don't care enough. It's also possible that you suffer from confirmation bias though. It's new, I did a lot of work/spend a lot of money to make it work, therefore it has to be better. The Gear Page is basically based on that principle.To the people who complain when they don’t hear a difference:
1 Your preset sucks
2 Your speakers suck
3 Your ears suck
4 Your playing sucks
Did anyone noticed that the Rectis are sound like shit after Ares 2.0?
Went Back to 1.03 and everything is ok.me, like 4 messages before yours
Did anyone noticed that the Rectis are sound like shit after Ares 2.0?
Went Back to 1.03 and everything is ok.
By the way It´s fantastic and incredible that an update like 2-0 come out...
Thanks
Exactly. This goes back to the whole thing about if you're not hearing a difference, then it stands to reason that the way your preset was built wasn't taking advantage of a part of the modeling algorithm that was affected by the changed by the update in the first place. Hence, no difference. For example if a change had a prominent effect on Recto type amps and all your go-to presets are based on Fenders, then you're not going to hear a difference. An extension of that theory is that if you don't regularly use that amp and then you go looking to hear the change, how can anyone claim to know what they're listening for vs. the player that has spend probably hundreds of hours in front of that particular model and can much better identify the subtle nuances that have been affected? It's all so highly subjective, and yet there are some people that will roll in here like a bull in a TV store and claim that the updates are worthless or they caused their "tone" (whatever that is - again highly subjective) to become worse and that they're rolling back or selling their unit and getting a Kemper. These are the people really crack me up.Something I learned years ago is that we each listen for different things. In the pre Quantum days there were releases which people raved about, and I thought there was little difference. Then came a release which really opened up the clean sounds, and the heavy metal merchants were saying that they heard nothing.
The biggest changes have happened with my USAII++ preset. There are too much hiss and treble after updating. I had to reduce hi-cut from 10 to 5 kHz