Patience is a virtue...or so I'm told!
I can appreciate all that and thanks for sharing it. Context is EVERYTHING on the Internet. So many folks just ignore that fact. Thank you for not ignoring it.
Presets can be shared privately too. Remember that.
I'll also add that presets are collections of parameter settings. Nothing magic. Nothing personal. Nothing really at all. I understand where you are coming from; but we can do this privately too.
I'm trying to help you. If you end up with better sounds because someone helped you, then you are better off than when you started. I'm willing to help. PM me.
Scott,
You've been
more than patient enough in trying to help
"grape" with his struggles to get
FW-3.00 to sound better than
FW-2.01. Perhaps the way
his ears hear
FW-3.00 is different than most people's perception, and that's OK. However, if he were
really looking to improve his sound, learn a bit more about the craft of
Axe-FX patch-creation, etc, don't you think it would make a
lot more sense to
POST A FREAKIN' PRESET/PATCH?!? Last time I checked,
Axe-Edit's screen-display (or the unit's on-screen Layout for that matter) never exposed pictures of someone's girlfriend/wife naked (or anything else to be afraid of) - LOL! In fact, a wise man once said:
"Presets are collections of parameter settings. Nothing magic. Nothing personal. Nothing really at all." Well put!
Would a defense-lawyer/attorney ever walk into a courtroom, make an opening-statement pleading the innocence of his client, and then proceed to present
NO EVIDENCE on his client's behalf? Of course not...That would be ludicrous! ...I digress...
Once the signal leaves the output-jack of our respective instruments (or in some cases, a line-level re-amp signal) then the
Axe-FX "patches" represent the
"SONIC-DNA" of our electric-guitar/bass sounds! I suppose you can see where I'm going with this - LOL!
Scott, your patience and selflessness on this forum is very admirable. You're a good man...I just hope that someone like yourself who is so willing to help others is not taking time out of his own busy schedule in an attempt to help someone who
might turn out to be more of a "contrarian" than a musician looking to improve his tone-making craft...I dunno...Maybe "grape" will surprise me and take a
"leap-of-faith" by sharing a few of his patches with you, so that you can
"take-a-peek-under-the-hood" so-to-speak!
Until he shares a patch with you, he's just making extremely vague, judgemental, baseless/"evidence-less" claims while furnishing very little to absolutely NOTHING specific about his parameters/settings! I mean if I just wanted to "prove a point" about the (supposed) inferiority of
FW-3.00, I could post-up some of the worst sounding shit you've EVER heard
(using FW-3.00) in support of such an argument...Of course for me to actually make it sound THAT BAD, I'd have to make some ridiculous patch adjustments (a few key ones could do the trick - LOL!)
Aaahhhh, but once you see the patch-in-question, then either my incompetence (if I was actually trying to make it sound good,) or my "sabotaging-motives" (if I were ONLY trying to prove a point) would be EXPOSED! I guess unless "grape" shares an
Axe-FX II patch with you, we'll never know, will we?...Oh well!
Bottom-Line: (As Cliff basically said) It's OK to hear things differently than others, so if grape's happy with 2.01, then he should just use it (the down-revved Firmware) and
be happy! There's nothing wrong with that course of action!
Bill