DonPetersen
Fractal Fanatic
as I said before, I really like the compressor of the Axe - and here one exsample why that is:
I have this nicely messed up Tonebender/No Amp/Ringmod patch that does a lot of the things I've been trying to get out of 'normal' fuzz pedals (without success, btw.). It has a certain synthetic, chewy attack that was just perfect, but sometimes the attack clipped the output.
I didn't want to mess with the ratio, threshold or attack parameters, since I had the response I wanted, well except the clipping obviously.
Lookahead to the rescue.
What a glorious parameter!
First I turned it up all the way (the attack was quite slow so I figured I need A LOT of lookahead). The clipping was gone, and so was a good portion of my attack - powerful stuff.
At 12 o'clock it was still taking away too much of the transient, but in a very controlled and pleasant way.
I turned it all the way down (the clipping came back) and increased the lookahead very slowly.
At 0.055ms I found the sweet spot for this sound!
Yay!
I have this nicely messed up Tonebender/No Amp/Ringmod patch that does a lot of the things I've been trying to get out of 'normal' fuzz pedals (without success, btw.). It has a certain synthetic, chewy attack that was just perfect, but sometimes the attack clipped the output.
I didn't want to mess with the ratio, threshold or attack parameters, since I had the response I wanted, well except the clipping obviously.
Lookahead to the rescue.
What a glorious parameter!
First I turned it up all the way (the attack was quite slow so I figured I need A LOT of lookahead). The clipping was gone, and so was a good portion of my attack - powerful stuff.
At 12 o'clock it was still taking away too much of the transient, but in a very controlled and pleasant way.
I turned it all the way down (the clipping came back) and increased the lookahead very slowly.
At 0.055ms I found the sweet spot for this sound!
Yay!