MKeditor
Experienced
My new magic box had it's maiden voyage this past weekend. It debuted at my mega-church gig. Best environment I play in. Three thousand seat venue with state of the art PA and (EAW) monitors. I had the sound team mute the inputs of my two channels since the new Axe-FX II has a pop when powered on. As soon as they brought up the faders at FOH, a bad hum was heard. My Ultra did that but once the ground lift button would be engaged it would remedy the problem. Not the case this time. The hum went from really bad to just bad. It was better but not acceptable. We ended up having to run 1/4 from Output 1 to two Countryman DI boxes. That did the trick. Of course that is not what I want to happen. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a cure other than investing in direct boxes? I read in the manual about the humbuster cables but that won't help the XLR outputs.
On a brighter note, once the DI's were in place, the tone was lovely. It was great hearing it through FOH rumbling through the room. The engineer loves how great the black box sounds and (usually) with no fuss. The other guitar player was using an AC30. The engineer said that that amp sounded like it was in another room. He said with some expensive mics and plenty of time to adjust he could make the AC30 sound great but they rarely have the time.
Anyway.....suggestions?
On a brighter note, once the DI's were in place, the tone was lovely. It was great hearing it through FOH rumbling through the room. The engineer loves how great the black box sounds and (usually) with no fuss. The other guitar player was using an AC30. The engineer said that that amp sounded like it was in another room. He said with some expensive mics and plenty of time to adjust he could make the AC30 sound great but they rarely have the time.
Anyway.....suggestions?