RTFRN (read the fooking release notes EVERY SINGLE TIME.)
Every major firmware release:
'This may change the sound of your previous presets'.
Bottom line:
-Some *may* need to reset system parameters.
-Some *may* have to update existing presets.
-SOME *may* have to do nothing.
You won't find out until you upgrade. Welcome to the price of advancement. No procedure will prepare you for everything. The expectation that 'if I do this, and that' it will sound magically better with zero tweaking will not happen.
The method has never been a secret, and been broadcast often enough. And it is VASTLY simpler than in years past.
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That is just it though, for what I assume is many users, the steps of resetting system parameters vs resetting an amp block vs resetting presets etc is a bit confusing.
I've read so many different things on these forums about what all your supposed to do and when
Double click "bypass", select a different amp and then the same amp again etc.
I for one never know what all I'm supposed to do half the time.....
Then you read messages from Cliff on here talking about how he changed some default value of something or another, which is well and good, but exactly what one needs to do to make the new amp model reflect those changes isn't always clear.
FW updates are great, don't get me wrong, but there are A LOT of parameters to deal with, things like global settings etc now.
I'd like a quick and easy way to either A) have the unit reconfigured like a brand new from the box FW14 unit, with zero of my previous settings mucking anything up, with a single button press or B) at least a detailed, step by step, written for idiots like myself, guide to exactly what all I need to do get it into that state.
I don't have the most remote idea of what some stuff like pentode vs triode, dampening, dynamics etc even does. I'm an idiot guitar player, not an electrical engineer who builds or mods amps.
Again, this stuff is all fantastic if it means it sounds better, but not all of us know what on earth it means.
I just want to be able to have the amp models sound great, and let me adjust them with basic controls I understand, and the ones I don't, I want to make sure they are defaulting where they should.
If an amp doesn't have a MV for example, I want to make sure the MV goes to 10, if that is what is deemed "correct".
You say, "The method has never been a secret, and been broadcast often enough. And it is VASTLY simpler than in years past." HOWEVER if its so simple and common sense, why do we have this thread ?