It doesDoes setting the input trim on this to .5 accurately simulate the low input of the amp? In many other models the Axe-FX works this way but I don't see this explicitly stated for the Brit 800. Even when I run the input trim at .5 and drop the preamp gain all the way to 0, I still get some distortion with my PAF's running at full, although I can get it to clean up by turning down the knobs on the guitar.
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No. It's just a pre-gain control. It attenuates the signal in to the front of the amp block.Yay!
I'm somewhat curious on how the input-trim-as-input-selector system works. My understanding is that the 2204 low input removes the first tube from the signal chain, so in the Axe-FX as you move from input trim "1" down to ".5" is it gradually removing that tube from the model?
No. It's just a pre-gain control. It attenuates the signal in to the front of the amp block.
The Axe-Fx's AMP block. I have no idea how a real 2204 works.Is that referring to the real 2204, the model, or both?
Even when I run the input trim at .5 and drop the preamp gain all the way to 0, I still get some distortion with my PAF's running at full, although I can get it to clean up by turning down the knobs on the guitar.
Assign a scene controller to input trim, drive and output level. Use it to reduce the trim and drive and increase the level simultaneously when you change scenes.Don't suppose anyone has a good idea on simulating bypassing the first gain stage on the Brit 800? Maybe somewhere in the advanced Preamp page?
Thanks, this is kinda like what I'm doing right now. But I'm wondering more about simulating the less compressed response of the Lo channel in the 2204. Would it help to change the Preamp Tube Type to one of the ones with higher Preamp Hardness?Assign a scene controller to input trim, drive and output level. Use it to reduce the trim and drive and increase the level simultaneously when you change scenes.
Use a second amp block with reduced drive and input trim, increased output level settings. Switch between blocks.
Use the Y side of the amp block to reduce the drive, input trim and increase the output level. Switch between X and Y.
Compression? I'm not sure what you mean. Preamps don't compress input signals -- they boost and possibly clip them (I suppose you could argue this is a form of hard limiting or compression). If you give yourself the clean headroom in to the preamp, so there's no clipping, you're on par with what the low input on the IRL amp does.Thanks, this is kinda like what I'm doing right now. But I'm wondering more about simulating the less compressed response of the Lo channel in the 2204. Would it help to change the Preamp Tube Type to one of the ones with higher Preamp Hardness?
Use a plexi model for the low input... should be close.Thanks, this is kinda like what I'm doing right now. But I'm wondering more about simulating the less compressed response of the Lo channel in the 2204. Would it help to change the Preamp Tube Type to one of the ones with higher Preamp Hardness?