Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.04 Public Beta

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Budda said:
I have tried an actual hiwatt and it is very fender-y without Fanes. I want full body high headroom to have as an option with the superlead.

Apparently getting a dr103 is a lengthy process haha.

Looking forward to fw28!

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I was forunate enough to land a 1969 DR103 back in 1996 for very sensible money. Not only that, but it turned out I knew every owner of the amp from brand new to when I got it. (3 previous keepers to me, two of them still alive now). It needed a little work, and I actually had to make a sensible modification to allow for the power tubes available at the time. Very Fender-y is a good description @Budda (but without reverb), very clean, and very full sounding. But kind of "dull", despite the scintillating top end. They do one job, really well, and don't sound in the slightest vintage. They can do 80's clean sounds better than most amps that were launched in the 80s!

The lovely guy that bought it from me, maybe 10 years on, is a massive Who fan. He was quite shocked just how hi-fi it sounded when he drove 300 miles to pick up after winning the Ebay auction for it. We have remained friends ever since.

Really great amps, but I'd struggle to see how they might excite anyone as a model in the Axe FX. They don't do so much other than amplify in a very clean way with a lot of headroom. The joy of ownership is pretty tactile, with amazingly smooth controls to turn, with appropriate response, and then just incredible levels of volume available. None of that is likely to come across in a digital model, no matter how authentic.

Mine found use as a great pedal platform, especially for getting fuzz to sound really nasty, but never really had enough of it's own grit to be a mainstay. I "dep'ed" on bass guitar for a band for one gig, and that turned into a year of pretending to know how. It was supremely good bass amp, capable of surprising volume given 100 watt rating.

@Budda, if you're anything like me, your Super Lead will remain the main squeeze (mine is a JMP 2203), but I'll always miss the old DR103. I sold when it got to be 6 times what I paid for it. It's now worth about 20 times what I paid for it, but has remained in the same ownership since I sold it almost 20 years ago.

Liam
 
LiamH said:
I was forunate enough to land a 1969 DR103 back in 1996 for very sensible money. Not only that, but it turned out I knew every owner of the amp from brand new to when I got it. (3 previous keepers to me, two of them still alive now). It needed a little work, and I actually had to make a sensible modification to allow for the power tubes available at the time. Very Fender-y is a good description @Budda (but without reverb), very clean, and very full sounding. But kind of "dull", despite the scintillating top end. They do one job, really well, and don't sound in the slightest vintage. They can do 80's clean sounds better than most amps that were launched in the 80s!

The lovely guy that bought it from me, maybe 10 years on, is a massive Who fan. He was quite shocked just how hi-fi it sounded when he drove 300 miles to pick up after winning the Ebay auction for it. We have remained friends ever since.

Really great amps, but I'd struggle to see how they might excite anyone as a model in the Axe FX. They don't do so much other than amplify in a very clean way with a lot of headroom. The joy of ownership is pretty tactile, with amazingly smooth controls to turn, with appropriate response, and then just incredible levels of volume available. None of that is likely to come across in a digital model, no matter how authentic.

Mine found use as a great pedal platform, especially for getting fuzz to sound really nasty, but never really had enough of it's own grit to be a mainstay. I "dep'ed" on bass guitar for a band for one gig, and that turned into a year of pretending to know how. It was supremely good bass amp, capable of surprising volume given 100 watt rating.

@Budda, if you're anything like me, your Super Lead will remain the main squeeze (mine is a JMP 2203), but I'll always miss the old DR103. I sold when it got to be 6 times what I paid for it. It's now worth about 20 times what I paid for it, but has remained in the same ownership since I sold it almost 20 years ago.

Liam
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Great description of it. Hiwatt circuit is best experienced live in person. I have a Hi-Tone 50 watt head that is so, so great as a pedal platform. And the cleans, man, the low notes sound like a piano.
 
KFF said:
cough-cough...DDOS.

Don't ask me how I know. Oh... former lives.
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Technically both are correct.
A DOS is a denial of service, a DDOS is just a distributed one - harder to block and defend from of course.

One AI pinging like crazy could be a simple DOS to stall a simple system - but you would more likely use multiple AIs to DDOS. You could get crafty and use an AI to prowl around and hack for you. It could build out that bot network, probably of poorly secured systems, for the DDOS. These kind of things happen today, all the time. AI makes a great 2025 edition script kiddie.

This isn't a former life for me. It's still my life, on the playing defense side. I ain't attacking anyone. : )
 
FPFL said:
Technically both are correct.
A DOS is a denial of service, a DDOS is just a distributed one - harder to block and defend from of course.

One AI pinging like crazy could be a simple DOS to stall a simple system - but you would more likely use multiple AIs to DDOS. You could get crafty and use an AI to prowl around and hack for you. It could build out that bot network, probably of poorly secured systems, for the DDOS. These kind of things happen today, all the time. AI makes a great 2025 edition script kiddie.

This isn't a former life for me. It's still my life, on the playing defense side. I ain't attacking anyone. : )
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My life too, tangentially, web dev.
 
LiamH said:
I'd struggle to see how they might excite anyone as a model in the Axe FX
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I tried them after this discussion started, and stuck on Brialliant and Jumped channels for a month or so. Paired with these https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/free-hj-4x12-rca-cab-pack.156177/ and driven to EoB with some compressor in front of it, it's INSANE.

I now switched to USA MKV Green for a similar sound, and tonally I like it more, but feel-wise and "fullness"-wise Hiwatt kick MKV butt big time. It feels like playing nuclear reactor, immense power under your fingers. I'm still not completely satisfied but Hiwatt is now of my favorites for edge of breakup tones for legato playing.
 
@LiamH great writeup.

I want the clean headroom (and did get some breakup from that 81). Twin heads arent really around not are 60s showmans (8ohm vs the dual showman 4). From my reading, one key difference between 60s and mid-70s dr103s is going from 12at7 to 12ax7 for PI. A relatively cheap alteration.

The superlead sounds great as a pedal platform too (why i bought it). My drive setup essentially takes the volume from 2-6ish when applied.

I for one love hitting the hiwatt with any type of dirt in the axe. More than the axe plexis which dont clean up the way my real one does (observation not complaint).

Since it seems like i wont be bagging one any time soon, the gas is dwindling a bit. May call the builder of my jtm-45 about general pricing of a jtm thats more like 120w+ but retains the voicing and general feel. I doubt most players find a dimed jtm-45 into 412 “quiet” but here we are ;)
 
painkiller said:
Isn't that what the IT experts call a DoS attack?
Then you can forget it with a new firmware. :smile:
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Yes, surely DOS ... but it's all about getting it first ... and if one can't get it first, take the whole thing down!

Potential compromise: 1 ping / ms. But multiply that by 1000s of users running their scripts/bots and that might overwhelm (ddos) the server(s) too. It's a tragedy of the commons issue.

For the sake of the planet and our mutual joy, we'd have to make a pact to set the max ping rate at 1/sec and be satisfied waiting an extra 990,999,990 nanoseconds. 🥴

Can we all agree?
 
yyz67 said:
Yes, surely DOS ... but it's all about getting it first ... and if one can't get it first, take the whole thing down!

Potential compromise: 1 ping / ms. But multiply that by 1000s of users running their scripts/bots and that might overwhelm (ddos) the server(s) too. It's a tragedy of the commons issue.

For the sake of the planet and our mutual joy, we'd have to make a pact to set the max ping rate at 1/sec and be satisfied waiting an extra 990,999,990 nanoseconds. 🥴

Can we all agree?
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I would hope the most internet facing servers are behind firewalls which are not even allowing ICMP protocol, so likely ping won't even work.

You'd need to hit a functional TCP port...
 
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