"Crash" sound/distortion on attack

Sounds pretty much like strings hitting the frets.
I guess your guitar is passive, no almost empty battery inside it?

So another question is why you don't have that nasty sound with other gear.
My guess (besides checking the frets, checking how straight or bent the neck is and checking the hight of the bridge and the trem):
Turn your system loud enough so you don't need to pick that hard. With a real twin cranked all up you would never dare to pick that hard, right?

I've been once running into a similar problem. Our female singers didn't wanted the guitars to be too loud in the rehearse (chickas, you know), so we both, the other player and I, turned our volume down.
The one with the real amp got the problem that his amp didn't sound good anymore so low.
My Axe-Fx still sounded good...but I noticed that I startet to pick and act different. Playing and volume depends on each other somehow.

 

I'm getting something similiar that I posted a few weeks ago. I'm getting when gain is down once the distortion is increased you can't hear it anymore. Some people thought it was digital distortion, i've tried the things that were suggested but I'm still getting the noise.

 

First, people missed the "Crack". Now, people want less "Crash". <<<FACEPALM>>>

 

Admiral, post the patches you have this issue with...

 

@AdmiralB: I have a strat with pretty low action that exhibited this issue. I recently changed to Cobalt strings and the issue became even more noticeable.

 

I will post a couple when I'm back home. And I will mic up the Super and record it, to test Cliff's theory.

 

I don't think this is the same issue. The "crack" debate was about the pick attack and resulted in the dynamics settings in the AxeFX. Since it's adjustable, people who missed it have it and those that don't dial it out.

The "crash" issue has to do with edge of break up in the power amp.

 

Try moving the virtual mic further away from the virtual cab in the cab block.

 

It was a joke. This doesn't sound like a power amp issue at all. It sounds like lousy guitar action.

 

Doesn't matter if there's a mic or not. However, I just tried it with a mic, and distance has no effect.

 

Here are a couple patches. One is the factory Double Verb patch with no changes other than bright on, treble and bass up.

The other is based on an HBE with very low drive (about 1.6) and master (about 3.4).

 

Kinda does. But it isn't.

 

Yeah, I have this issue and I use cobalt strings. My action is pretty low though.

 

I used to get that same sound with my Triaxis on the Lead 1 channels; Green, Yellow and Red.
I guess it has to do with the the gain staging in some types of preamp designs.
The clean channels and the Lead 2 channels did not do the same thing.
Seems to be related to certain types of mid-gain type circuits.
Try a different amp sim.

 

I fired up the Super and miced it, and long story somewhat less long, Cliff's right - the real amp does do it too.

With the caveat that the real amp had to be a lot louder than the patch - the amp didn't do it until '5' on the volume, and the Axe will do it as low as about 1.5.

But otherwise, yes, it's a real artifact. Couldn't test the AC-30 as its owner already took it back. But I see no reason to doubt that the results there would be similar.

Odd that none of my other (admittedly older, and cheaper) modelers do this, but I reckon - like the ghost notes that Line 6 used to model - that's part of the detail.

On a tangent, it sure brought back (bad) memories of what a hassle micing/moving/recording/moving/micing/recording, repeat ad nauseum is.

 

Actually I was comparing to the Double Verb model. While we're in full disclosure mode, the Super I'm using is in a head cab and I'm driving a pair of 12s with it. But the notion still carries, no two amps are the same, tapers vary, and so on.

 

Well that explains a number of things. Good to know.

 

Ok. I didn't catch the joke. It does sound like power amp distortion (bad) to me and it sounds like Cliff is saying it is and that amps do it as well. Knowing this, I'll have to try much lower gain settings than I'm used to... or play with eq before the power amp to limit the high frequency content before it distorts.