Gilly
Member
Being my first post, I d just first like to say that I've been really blown away by the Axe guitar tones right out of the box.:encouragement: I cheekily actually gigged with it on guitar 3 days after getting it and even though I didn't have
the knowledge to get it sounding the way I really wanted I was still happy with the live tone FOH. I've been spending a lot time reading through the forums and love all the tips and tricks I have found to get the most out of this thing. Hat tip to FAS.
I ran into a challenge last night with using the Axe for Bass tone and need some input, no pun intended.
I ran my Fender Jazz Deluxe into the Axe using XLR from output 2 (left) output into 1 PA speaker (RCF hd-12). I unfortunately only discovered at the end of the night that I needed to change the I/O setting from stereo to sum LR. (question 1) But from what I read that would only make a difference in this setup certain blocks? So shouldn't have an affect on Amp Cab compressor GEQ (what I was mainly using) in terms of tone output, is that right??
The challenge I actually had was that I was A/Bing it with my friends Pod XT live (yes that old thing) through the same speaker with no other settings changed. There was a bass tone on the XT that that someone had spent a bit of time building that sounded pretty good to my ears. I define 'good' by that by it sounded punchy and closer a traditional bass cab/rig, or at least like a bass rig miced. I spent the best part of the night changing Amps and Cabs GEQ ccompressor changing all the parameters within each of these blocks on the Axe. And didn't get close to the sound I was getting on the Pod preset.
Now I dont want this to sound like comparing the two units here, I don't own the pod xt and I've had the Axe fx for exactly one week so its way too early to be saying anything.
I just want to know if there is something that I m doing majorly wrong with the settings, because honestly the best tone I got I would describe as an EQ improved DI sound.
Early this morning I spent some time re-reading through the manual to see if there is anything that could help. A few things I found;
Page 15 of the Owners Manual.
'To operate with unity gain, set the Output Level knobs to maximum. If you then route shunts from the input to the output you will get out exactly what you put in..'
(Question 2) Does this mean I need to set the Output 1 knob (front panel) to 100%? Does this affect the overall tone?
(Question 3) I ve read in the Global settings that there is options for changing phase. Would that have affected tone with my setup?
(Question 4) I didn't change anything in the Global EQ at all is this something that makes a huge difference to the sound outside of the EQ's in the blocks?
Any input at this point would be greatly appreciated.
Being my first post, I d just first like to say that I've been really blown away by the Axe guitar tones right out of the box.:encouragement: I cheekily actually gigged with it on guitar 3 days after getting it and even though I didn't have
the knowledge to get it sounding the way I really wanted I was still happy with the live tone FOH. I've been spending a lot time reading through the forums and love all the tips and tricks I have found to get the most out of this thing. Hat tip to FAS.
I ran into a challenge last night with using the Axe for Bass tone and need some input, no pun intended.
I ran my Fender Jazz Deluxe into the Axe using XLR from output 2 (left) output into 1 PA speaker (RCF hd-12). I unfortunately only discovered at the end of the night that I needed to change the I/O setting from stereo to sum LR. (question 1) But from what I read that would only make a difference in this setup certain blocks? So shouldn't have an affect on Amp Cab compressor GEQ (what I was mainly using) in terms of tone output, is that right??
The challenge I actually had was that I was A/Bing it with my friends Pod XT live (yes that old thing) through the same speaker with no other settings changed. There was a bass tone on the XT that that someone had spent a bit of time building that sounded pretty good to my ears. I define 'good' by that by it sounded punchy and closer a traditional bass cab/rig, or at least like a bass rig miced. I spent the best part of the night changing Amps and Cabs GEQ ccompressor changing all the parameters within each of these blocks on the Axe. And didn't get close to the sound I was getting on the Pod preset.
Now I dont want this to sound like comparing the two units here, I don't own the pod xt and I've had the Axe fx for exactly one week so its way too early to be saying anything.
I just want to know if there is something that I m doing majorly wrong with the settings, because honestly the best tone I got I would describe as an EQ improved DI sound.
Early this morning I spent some time re-reading through the manual to see if there is anything that could help. A few things I found;
Page 15 of the Owners Manual.
'To operate with unity gain, set the Output Level knobs to maximum. If you then route shunts from the input to the output you will get out exactly what you put in..'
(Question 2) Does this mean I need to set the Output 1 knob (front panel) to 100%? Does this affect the overall tone?
(Question 3) I ve read in the Global settings that there is options for changing phase. Would that have affected tone with my setup?
(Question 4) I didn't change anything in the Global EQ at all is this something that makes a huge difference to the sound outside of the EQ's in the blocks?
Any input at this point would be greatly appreciated.
