Iron1
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I've had my Axe FX II XL + for a few months now and just absolutely love all the clean tones I can get with it. They have great clarity, musicality and atmosphere far beyond anything I've ever been able to get with any rig I've played through over the last 30 years. So in love with that aspect of this machine.
When I first got it, all the factory presets sounded really muffled, like you were listening to an amp that was in an isolation booth while you were in the control booth. All the high end lopped off and the overall tone just, well, muffled. Turned out the person I got it from had some really weird global settings that were Lo Pass/shaving the tones. So, I factory reset it and it seemed to fixed that issue, mostly.
However, I still seem to have this overall quality to the high gain tones I can only describe as sounding distant - like the amp isn't in your face but down the hall. Like an unwanted reverb effect. It reminds me of when we used to record band practice and if the mic was far away from the sound source it had a sort of distant quality to it where you can hear something in the upper registers that is more early reflection sort of stuff. Or, like the amp is recorded with a room mic, not a mic against the grill, if that makes sense.
Here's an example. 1st pass is with my old set-up and includes drums/bass. 2nd pass is with the FX/Drums/Bass. 3rd is old, no drums/bass, 4th is FX, no drums/bass.
If you're bored, here's an example of the clean to high-gain issue. The first minute of the song is cleans, then the high-gain kicks in:
It shows up no matter what amp/cab/mic/FX settings I use on the high-gain tones. I primarily use the Soldano, 6160 and Uber amps, but have that issue with every amp I've tried, including IRs.
I'm coming from a Helix, and still have some tone samples from it I reference and those don't have the issue in question. More confusingly, the clean tones don't have that issue either.
Any ideas what I need to do to rid myself of this?
When I first got it, all the factory presets sounded really muffled, like you were listening to an amp that was in an isolation booth while you were in the control booth. All the high end lopped off and the overall tone just, well, muffled. Turned out the person I got it from had some really weird global settings that were Lo Pass/shaving the tones. So, I factory reset it and it seemed to fixed that issue, mostly.
However, I still seem to have this overall quality to the high gain tones I can only describe as sounding distant - like the amp isn't in your face but down the hall. Like an unwanted reverb effect. It reminds me of when we used to record band practice and if the mic was far away from the sound source it had a sort of distant quality to it where you can hear something in the upper registers that is more early reflection sort of stuff. Or, like the amp is recorded with a room mic, not a mic against the grill, if that makes sense.
Here's an example. 1st pass is with my old set-up and includes drums/bass. 2nd pass is with the FX/Drums/Bass. 3rd is old, no drums/bass, 4th is FX, no drums/bass.
If you're bored, here's an example of the clean to high-gain issue. The first minute of the song is cleans, then the high-gain kicks in:
It shows up no matter what amp/cab/mic/FX settings I use on the high-gain tones. I primarily use the Soldano, 6160 and Uber amps, but have that issue with every amp I've tried, including IRs.
I'm coming from a Helix, and still have some tone samples from it I reference and those don't have the issue in question. More confusingly, the clean tones don't have that issue either.
Any ideas what I need to do to rid myself of this?