Hey guys!
So I've had my Axe Ultra for about a year. I've taken it out to a few gigs but it's mostly been a home/studio thing. I want to start taking it out more often, but I'm having some issues with putting my sounds together.
I have the front panel input level set to about 3 o clock and it hardly ever touches red. I've considered pushing it some more, but I'm having some 'bass' issues.
I'm not getting too much bass coming out of my cab but it sounds like I'm getting too much bass into the Axe FX. I'm using a strat with single coils. The bridge pickup is a bit hotter than the rest, but most of my issues are from the neck pickup.
I like my clean sounds to be on the edge of breakup with just a bit of hair when I play harder. No matter how little drive I use, hitting an open E power chord with the neck pickup is super muddy. There isn't much definition in my bass notes and they seem to distort. Everywhere else on the guitar sounds great. Increasing the low cut doesn't seem to help much until I'm around 100-200, but then I lose too much of the amp sim's character. This and/or turning the bass almost all the way down helps a little bit, but then my other pickups sound harsh.
This happens with most amp models, but I'm mostly dealing with Plexi 2 and Double Verb.
I run the Axe into a Carvin DCM3000 power amp and a Mesa Rectifier 2x12 cabinet. The volume controls on the amp are maxed and I use the Axe Output 1 control to change the output level out of my cab.
Could the Input Level be the culprit? Does it interact with the amp sims?? I just thought of this and I won't be able to experiment some more until tomorrow afternoon.
Also, when I use the Face Fuzz drive model, playing anything with the neck pickup (especially bass notes) seems to 'choke'. Notes have no definition and if I let them sustain, I can hear them open up as the notes fade, like a compressor. Not so much on the bridge pickup (although it still happens). This happens especially when I run the Fuzz into a crunchy amp.
Any help would be awesome guys.
Thanks!
So I've had my Axe Ultra for about a year. I've taken it out to a few gigs but it's mostly been a home/studio thing. I want to start taking it out more often, but I'm having some issues with putting my sounds together.
I have the front panel input level set to about 3 o clock and it hardly ever touches red. I've considered pushing it some more, but I'm having some 'bass' issues.
I'm not getting too much bass coming out of my cab but it sounds like I'm getting too much bass into the Axe FX. I'm using a strat with single coils. The bridge pickup is a bit hotter than the rest, but most of my issues are from the neck pickup.
I like my clean sounds to be on the edge of breakup with just a bit of hair when I play harder. No matter how little drive I use, hitting an open E power chord with the neck pickup is super muddy. There isn't much definition in my bass notes and they seem to distort. Everywhere else on the guitar sounds great. Increasing the low cut doesn't seem to help much until I'm around 100-200, but then I lose too much of the amp sim's character. This and/or turning the bass almost all the way down helps a little bit, but then my other pickups sound harsh.
This happens with most amp models, but I'm mostly dealing with Plexi 2 and Double Verb.
I run the Axe into a Carvin DCM3000 power amp and a Mesa Rectifier 2x12 cabinet. The volume controls on the amp are maxed and I use the Axe Output 1 control to change the output level out of my cab.
Could the Input Level be the culprit? Does it interact with the amp sims?? I just thought of this and I won't be able to experiment some more until tomorrow afternoon.
Also, when I use the Face Fuzz drive model, playing anything with the neck pickup (especially bass notes) seems to 'choke'. Notes have no definition and if I let them sustain, I can hear them open up as the notes fade, like a compressor. Not so much on the bridge pickup (although it still happens). This happens especially when I run the Fuzz into a crunchy amp.
Any help would be awesome guys.
Thanks!