No sound in SPDIF out!

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AudioInjectedSoul

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I got my Ultra a couple of days ago, and I absolutely love how it sound through my poweramp and cabinet.

Today I tried to connect it to my Mbox2 and Pro Tools to see how it worked for recording. First I connected it with the SPDIF. I got some strange digital noise, almost like a little fizz whenever I made some sounds with my guitar. Took another look, yeah, it was the axe-fx and not the POD I had connected...!

I tried to connect with the balanced out instead. Ah, now the sound was just fine! So I was thinking, well the pro tools session was 44,1kHz/24bit, let's try 48kHz/24bit, yeah, I did read something about that in the manual, so I did, and then, no sound from the SPDIF. That's strange.

So I tried to move back to 44,1kHz/24bit again. Now I didn't get any sound there either.
I was freaking out. Tried to reset, tried to install the latest firmware again, turned the axe off and on, restarted the mac, tried two other SPDIF cables. Still no sound from the SPDIF!
I did get sound out of my cabinet though.

The clock source was set to SPDIF too. I'm out of ideas. I mean I had the exact same config when I changed to balanced and back to SPDIF. I didn't turn off the axe when I made the change, and the unbalanced out 1 was connected to the poweramp all the time. Did I do anything wrong there? :|

There is signal on the input, and I do get sound out of my cabinet as I said

Can anyone please help me? Just tell me I didn't break it! :cry:
 
You need to have your mbox set to 48kHz 24 bit.

double check your cables are going from digital out on the axe-fx to in on the mbox.

I doubt you broke and loading the firmware over won't help. It probably is a setting between the mbox and the axe-fx, if the cables are not hooked up backwards.
 
Thanks for reply man.

I double-checked that like 5 times already, hehe. Once again, digital out on the axe to the digital in on the mbox. And I tried it at 48kHz/24bit as I said. The signal flow arrow on the cable points in the correct direction too.

Any other suggestions? I just can´t figure out why it suddenly wouldn´t work :?

I´m going to sleep on it, maybe it works tomorrow, haha, I wish!
 
AudioInjectedSoul said:
Thanks for reply man.

I double-checked that like 5 times already, hehe. Once again, digital out on the axe to the digital in on the mbox. And I tried it at 48kHz/24bit as I said. The signal flow arrow on the cable points in the correct direction too.

Any other suggestions? I just can´t figure out why it suddenly wouldn´t work :?

I´m going to sleep on it, maybe it works tomorrow, haha, I wish!
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Did you try to set reset the clock source. The Axe-fx should be the master, I believe. It sounds like you have that right, but it can't hurt to reset it.
 
Tried that now, didn't work.

Thanks again for trying to help me out here bud, really appreciate it =)

I tried to connect it to the 'dig in' at my soundcard of my PC instead. Still no signal. Put the sample rate at 48000, nothing, auto, nothing, changed the clock select from INT to EXT, still nothing.

When I put it to EXT it says OutOfRange. Seems like there isn't coming any signal from the axe?
 
The SPDIF output was damaged. Got a new one from G66 today, and that worked just fine. Everythings ok then :)

And one more thing, the customer service of G66 is the best I have ever experienced!
 
AudioInjectedSoul said:
The SPDIF output was damaged. Got a new one from G66 today, and that worked just fine. Everythings ok then :)

And one more thing, the customer service of G66 is the best I have ever experienced!
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Glad to hear you got it fixed
 
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