bdrepko
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Nice. I would love to play some Larry Carlton and Peter White.My taste is VERY broad, from soft jazz to hard rock to EDM, but I hate reggaeton.
Nice. I would love to play some Larry Carlton and Peter White.My taste is VERY broad, from soft jazz to hard rock to EDM, but I hate reggaeton.
lol i was kidding, i hate reggaeton tooMy taste is VERY broad, from soft jazz to hard rock to EDM, but I hate reggaeton.
Do you use your amp and cab in mono or stereo ?Played my first gig tonight In a while, on fw 5.
Used the Seymour Duncan PS-170 and my Port City 2x12.
Couldn’t be happier, the sound was fantastic with the improved amp and drive modeling.
I’ve also returned to the trusted Euro Blue models, which sound awesome, cut better than the Friedmans and have that Bogner “growl”.
Do you use your amp and cab in mono or stereo ?
I did verify that the Output EQ is on but the tone is as I reported it earlier. Interestingly, when I tested Austin Buddy’s More Mark IIC++preset with the IIC++ Lead w/Delay scene not only did it sound the same... overly bright with no bottom... it had no delay. When I checked, the delay block was bypassed. When I enabled the delay block there was still no delay. Very Odd.I haven’t yet but I did reload all presets from laptop after 5.02 upgrade.
Perhaps someone might be so kind as to check out their unit if they have AB’s Naked Amps pack on F/W 5.02?
Thanks very much for this!Sure. Preset 'More Mark IIC++', Scene 4 'II C++ Lead w/delay', reloaded from the source files after the 5.02 firmware update. Sounds correct (and really amazing). Delay is not bypassed and sounds correct. Whatever is going on, it's neither the preset nor the firmware.
That's the classic symptom of phase cancellation due to summing to mono.I did verify that the Output EQ is on but the tone is as I reported it earlier. Interestingly, when I tested Austin Buddy’s More Mark IIC++preset with the IIC++ Lead w/Delay scene not only did it sound the same... overly bright with no bottom... it had no delay. When I checked, the delay block was bypassed. When I enabled the delay block there was still no delay. Very Odd.
Again, this was on a preset I reloaded after the firmware update. Something is off. Whether it is just my unit I don’t know. Perhaps someone might be so kind as to check out their unit if they have AB’s Naked Amps pack on F/W 5.02?
Thanks again for verifying this and giving me an additional data point.Sure. Preset 'More Mark IIC++', Scene 4 'II C++ Lead w/delay', reloaded from the source files after the 5.02 firmware update. Sounds correct (and really amazing). Delay is not bypassed and sounds correct. Whatever is going on, it's neither the preset nor the firmware.
Thank you Sir! I’ll add this to my wheelhouse as I try to overcome the symptoms.That's the classic symptom of phase cancellation due to summing to mono.
Make sure you don't have phase reverse enabled on your delay. Typically people experience this with the 2290 delay.Thank you Sir! I’ll add this to my wheelhouse as I try to overcome the symptoms.
Output 2 is setup to copy Output 1 and goes to my Yamaha monitors. This has worked great in the past. While looking at the layout of this preset I noticed it had links to Output 2 and Output 3 that I freely admit I don’t know what they are intended for.
The real amp actually is worse than the model. I toned it down a bit because it's too excessive IMO.
IMO either the cathode resistor should be 100K or the plate resistor of the preceding stage should be higher, 200K.
AC-30's have a poorly designed cathode follower. The bias point is totally wrong and crushes one side of the signal considerably. IMO either the cathode resistor should be 100K or the plate resistor of the preceding stage should be higher, 200K. The clipping is extremely asymmetric. Too much IMO. A little asymmetry is good because it warms things up. Too much causes excessive even-order harmonics which makes things fuzzy and indistinct. The clipping is so asymmetric on an AC-30 that it's almost a half-wave rectifier.
You can tweak this by adjusting the Preamp Bias point and/or lowering the Cathode Follower Compression. Or you can lower the Harmonics value which reduces the asymmetric distortion. The downside of that is that it then overdrives the phase inverter causing blocking distortion from excessive bias excursion. Another thing to try is to increase the Grid Clipping value which will add a little headroom. Start with the Bias point. AC-30's are very sensitive to the tube type and part tolerances. A tiny change in the bias point can make a big difference. The default bias point is based on Mullard ECC83 tubes.
I prefer the AC-20 because it doesn't have a cathode follower so doesn't suffer from these problems. The cathode follower in an AC-30 doesn't even do all that much. Normally you use a cathode follower to preset a low-impedance source to the tone stack but the tone stack in an AC-30 doesn't present that great of a load anyways.
Anybody else noticing strange behavior using S/PDIF output?
Had audio cut out for a second a couple of different times.
The Silver Jubilee patch I've been playing lately seems significantly thinner.
Went into the Axe's I/O setting and switched the AES/SPDIF option to AES and back to S/PDIF.
After doing so, the output level of the S/PDIF output seemed hotter.
I'm not overloading via the Axe-FX meters, but the S/PDIF output is clipping the S/PDIF input of an Antelope Zen Tour.
This wasn't happening until I switched the AES/SPDIF option from AES and back to S/PDIF.
I don't recall any of this with the beta versions.
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Has anyone tried the AES input? I seem to be receiving the Left channel only.