Input Clipping Thread

Hi! The input clipping in my case started suddenly on my axe fx ( firmware 22 beta 9)…. Tried the trick with the imput sensitivity adjusment but it didn’t work. I changed the input from analog to digital and back again to analog…. The input clipping dissapeared and so far everything it’s ok. I don‘t know if it makes any sense but it worked for me.
 
Ibanez99 said:
Hi! The input clipping in my case started suddenly on my axe fx ( firmware 22 beta 9)…. Tried the trick with the imput sensitivity adjusment but it didn’t work. I changed the input from analog to digital and back again to analog…. The input clipping dissapeared and so far everything it’s ok. I don‘t know if it makes any sense but it worked for me.
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Do you mean it started suddenly after the firmware update? If so, it's because this is a new feature added in this firmware.
 
craiguitar said:
I had mine set at default 50% for ages, but now as I see it’s clipping I lowered it to suit my EMG equipped Luke guitars, to around 30%. All OK, then I tried my LIII which is the loudest guitar I own by far, and i had to drop it down to around 15% and it still clips occasionally when I engage the guitar’s boost function. I had no idea before this firmware that my signal was too hot.
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What pickups you got your L3? Transitions or the MMs?
 
I'm a little confused. Is there any reason not to just set it to 5% so you'll probably never clip, and then just forget about it? Is there any benefit to finding just the right setting before you start clipping?
 
boogerfingerz said:
I'm a little confused. Is there any reason not to just set it to 5% so you'll probably never clip, and then just forget about it? Is there any benefit to finding just the right setting before you start clipping?
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Yes. Doing so optimizes the signal to noise ratio at the input.
 
Shahar said:
With that setting, you should be able to easily trigger an "INPUT CLIP!!!" message on the new firmware by playing a palm muted E power chord, not even that hard. I lowered mine to 20% and can still trigger if I hit it hard enough. But to eliminate it altogether, I have to set it to 3.9%.
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I am seeing the same with my LP. Early 2000s LP with no pickup covers. I ended up bringing A/D Sensitivity down to around 13% to avoid 99% of the clips.

I think best experience is not to use Axe-Edit but edit directly on the AxFx. You have a better UI with level meters that make it easier to see where the levels are at. Hopefully they will update AXE-EDIT to show the clip indicator and also have the level meters in the input levels setup page.

A learn function would also be a nice feature while we are at it :). Just hit learn and start bashing away and have AXE-EDIT set the optimal setting.

Or even better have an option to enable that in background so it will automatically adjust. That way if I switch from LP to Strat and back again we always get optimal setting.
 
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