Already updated to 13.0 last night to try drive improvements, every preset I tried was 10 dB lower in level, everywhere in the signal chain
Was correcting levels this week, so what ....? Pretty quickly found input 1 gain was set wrong, no problem.
The headroom meter in the amp is an extremely useful tool.
And no/graphic/par eq's in global outputs, niiicee, thank you very much
If you changed a bunch of presets to compensate, since this one now fixes it you'll need to either change them back or restore your backup from before you changed them. Just wanted to make sure you didn't miss that
This is looking to be a solution for the linear unit vs db debate. Both sides win!!!
But there are three sides to this debate, and the third side is Fractal Audio who has to build, maintain, and debug a user configurable setting which changes how a handful of knobs work all across the system. They also have to support all the people using the Axe FX who start posting "Someone said set it to -6 dB to simulate the low input on the amp but the Input Trim doesn't go negative, it only goes down to 0.0! I dunna understand!?"
You say everybody wins, but in that scenario Fractal definitely loses.
I amended my post to reflect the fact that it is a multiplier in this case. Still, a dB reading is more useful to me than 1.63. And my post addresses the larger issue of many manufacturers using meaningless numbers throughout their UI. Always been a peeve of mine. Multipliers make sense to me when they globally scale several independent parameters at once; for example, multiple delay times. For a single level control, I prefer dB.
Many people would disagree though. How much louder is 4 dB? I dunno, let me get out my logarithmic functions on my calculator and remember my math. How much louder is 1.63? 63% louder, or just over one one and a half as loud. The real amp gain knobs were always 1-10 and not dB, and linear or logarithmic or whatever scale anyway.
I'm not usually vocal about stuff like this, but input trim and global amp gain in linear? WHY? This makes no sense. Decibels are way better and easier to understand. Please change it back. Everything that could be shown in dB, should be. dB is easy to understand, linear or percentage units for stuff like this, is not.
It's not really linear, turn the knob down from midway to 1/4 way bring you down to 0.5, or half volume. Down to 1/8th is 0.25, or quarter volume. 1/16th is 0.125 or 1/8th volume. That's pretty logatirhmic, It's just being showed as a scalar multiplier instead of in Decibels on the knob display.
Cliff added global input gain with dB, but input trim was always a scalar value. This caused people confusion. Cliff made them both Decibels, and there was a flood of people going "I used to set it to 0.5 to simulate the Low input on my amp, what do I set it to now that it's Decibels?". Cliff changed it
back to how it was since the dawn of the feature until just one firmware version ago and suddenly everything is freaking out about that?
There's no right answer, but there is 10 years of forum, video, and manual guide information out there referring to input trim as a scalar value compared to two weeks of it being in Decibels. If no one is going to be happy either way, at least this way it doesn't invalidate anyones prior knowledge of the input trim knob.
Ultimately, this is a purely cosmetic issue and we're all smart enough to understand either scale.