Adinfinitum
Experienced
I've owned an Axe for almost 4 years. I've methodically updated firmware and replaced banks and presets. With firmware 3.04, I can honestly say that the unit became everything it was promised to be those many years ago. Hype became fact. Patches and presets that didn't sound good, now sound great, real, alive, vibrant - better than the real amp it was emulating. I was actually quite surprised at how good it sounded.
I always roll my eyes when certain forum items trumpet the new firmware as the be all and end all, when a month early, they said the same thing about the last firmware.
I downloaded 4.01 and of course, It radically changed the sound of most of my revised personal and third party presets. The patches have less gain, volume and sparkle. I went back to 304 and the magic was still there. To upgrade, I now have to update each patchesamp sefaults, then reload certain factory presets and then add My usual XY mods to each patch - a 5 hour process.
I really want to know how to revise my patches to compensate for the changes made to the new firmware. Is it just a matter of raising gain and MV or is there something more? What specifically changed??
I've asked in the past that any change to the basic sound structure should be user configurable. For example, if the power amp sim changed, could you just add a switch to change it to the new algorithm instead of wholesale changes. It's really hard to compare old to new when you have to reload old firmware. For example, in the past, cliff would replace a model with another model - those who liked the old model would complain. Now, when Cliff was tweaking the Peavey 6160, he added FAS6160 instead of removing the old one, he added the grid parameter which users can choose to turn on and off. I wish the same would go to the underlying changes as well. It took Cliff one whole day to revise his patches, but he invented this box and knows exactly what changed and how to tweak those changes. For me, such process is a week long ordeal without the ability to have two AxeFX units to compare patches.
And yes, I could stay at firmware 3.04, but then i would lose out on new features, amps and fx and bug fixes, so that option is a no go. Any suggestions?
I always roll my eyes when certain forum items trumpet the new firmware as the be all and end all, when a month early, they said the same thing about the last firmware.
I downloaded 4.01 and of course, It radically changed the sound of most of my revised personal and third party presets. The patches have less gain, volume and sparkle. I went back to 304 and the magic was still there. To upgrade, I now have to update each patchesamp sefaults, then reload certain factory presets and then add My usual XY mods to each patch - a 5 hour process.
I really want to know how to revise my patches to compensate for the changes made to the new firmware. Is it just a matter of raising gain and MV or is there something more? What specifically changed??
I've asked in the past that any change to the basic sound structure should be user configurable. For example, if the power amp sim changed, could you just add a switch to change it to the new algorithm instead of wholesale changes. It's really hard to compare old to new when you have to reload old firmware. For example, in the past, cliff would replace a model with another model - those who liked the old model would complain. Now, when Cliff was tweaking the Peavey 6160, he added FAS6160 instead of removing the old one, he added the grid parameter which users can choose to turn on and off. I wish the same would go to the underlying changes as well. It took Cliff one whole day to revise his patches, but he invented this box and knows exactly what changed and how to tweak those changes. For me, such process is a week long ordeal without the ability to have two AxeFX units to compare patches.
And yes, I could stay at firmware 3.04, but then i would lose out on new features, amps and fx and bug fixes, so that option is a no go. Any suggestions?
