camilovelandiamusic
Experienced
Hey guys! Comparing an original Zendrive hand built by Alfonso Hermida to the Axe FX III's "Zen Master", based on the Zendrive. What do you guys think?
I gotta be honest, I expected it to be more different than it was, and the biggest difference I felt was on the Tone knob, but I am sure they can be matched with what you said. In a blind test, no one would ever know the difference.Virtually indistinguishable. Slight more high end extension on the model which is expected because you're using one of those coiled guitar cables. The Zendrive has a fairly high output impedance since the output is unbuffered. The capacitance of the cable causes a lowpass response. A coiled guitar cable has a lot of capacitance which lowers the lowpass frequency. You can simulate this by reducing the High Cut value on the Tone page.
What's up bro! That gig ended! But let me know! I still got several gigs a week!good to hear you here man....you still doing the Bodega gig on occasion? I will be down on SoBe a bit this summer......
That's in the Helix. In FAS units its Zen MasterWhat's the "Zenmaster" mentioned in the OP? I thought the model of the Zen Drive was called the Dyhana?
Hey guys! Comparing an original Zendrive hand built by Alfonso Hermida to the Axe FX III's "Zen Master", based on the Zendrive. What do you guys think?
Ahh - of course. I get confuzzled, as I have both a Helix Rack and an Axe Fx3. Apologies to FAS for mixing up the two The new Helix Dhyana, by the way, really does sound the goods - I have a real Zen Drive, a long time favourite, for comparison.That's in the Helix. In FAS units its Zen Master
Hey guys! Comparing an original Zendrive hand built by Alfonso Hermida to the Axe FX III's "Zen Master", based on the Zendrive. What do you guys think?
yeah the dumble style gain is its own thing. it doesn't sound good doing the marshall thing, or the voxish thing. but for the robben ford/larry carlton/steely dan thing, it's perfectI never really got along with the Zen Drive model for some reason, but lately I have revisited it and I think it sounds great. I'm thinking reworking of the drives a few firmware versions ago might have something to do with that.
Virtually indistinguishable. Slight more high end extension on the model which is expected because you're using one of those coiled guitar cables. The Zendrive has a fairly high output impedance since the output is unbuffered. The capacitance of the cable causes a lowpass response. A coiled guitar cable has a lot of capacitance which lowers the lowpass frequency. You can simulate this by reducing the High Cut value on the Tone page.
The output impedance of a guitar is lower than the output impedance of the Zendrive. The Zendrive has a 100K potentiometer on the output. If we assume it's set to halfway that creates a 25K output impedance. A typical guitar is 10K. Therefore the guitar will have 2.5 times higher lowpass frequency.I find this statement somewhat confusing, this difference in the high end would be feasible if Camilo were playing with the guitar directly plugged into the Axe III ergo avoiding the tone-sucker coiled cable, but watching the video gives me the impression that the coiled cable is present in both cases (he simply turns off the zendrive and turns on the drive block in the axe without cable changes).
Is sassy to think that if you use the same cables the capacitance and the lowpass response will be the same?
My buddy sent this to Alfonso Hermida And he replied "that is correct"Virtually indistinguishable. Slight more high end extension on the model which is expected because you're using one of those coiled guitar cables. The Zendrive has a fairly high output impedance since the output is unbuffered. The capacitance of the cable causes a lowpass response. A coiled guitar cable has a lot of capacitance which lowers the lowpass frequency. You can simulate this by reducing the High Cut value on the Tone page.