I think the people complaining in this thread are way out of line. Cliff does an exellent job in updating the Axe to be the best product it can possible be.
The Axe is not meant to be a per client custom product. It's meant to please the majority of the guitar community, and the majority wants the amp sims to be as authentic and realistic as possible. Every area that Cliff has changed or updated, has been for the better. Nothing has taken any kind of step back. I find it just bizarre that people complain that "their sound" is not there in the new firmware. Cliff has gone way beyond what he has any responsibility to do, and added additional parameters so that people can dail in their previous amp tones with the new firmware, and still people complain? Talk about being rude...
In order to satisfy the majority, certain changes have to be made, and sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking when a new firmware is released, and sometimes, a sound that was available in a previous firmware, isn't available in the new firmware, and that's totally fine, because pretty much everyone likes to have their Axe improved, even if it takes some tweaking. We get more and more authentic amp sims by every firmware, and that is what people want. I listened to bmi:s clips, and the newer clips sounded much better in the high end, more realistic and alive. If you don't like that, then you don't like how real amps sound or behave, at least not all the way. That's fine, but stop bugging Cliff about it (he has already giving you the control to dail it in like it was before).
Cliffs dedication to his product is nothing short of amazing. I have made suggestions of features, and even amp sims, that have been added to the Axe (diffusion in the multidelay, CAE amp sims for instance ), that where my ideas to begin with. I pointed out that I didn't think the new CAE where realistic enough, and he updated them on several occasions. Cliff is VERY resonable to constructive criticism and suggestions, as long as they have a point. Sadly, I see very little, if none of any constructive criticism or reasonable suggestions in this thread, just a whole lot of childish "me me me me me"...
In this thread, all I see is pretty much just whining, moaning and an incredible rudeness towards Cliff. Either stick with your old firmware that you like so much, or use the new one, make the best of it, get over yourself. It's already evident that Cliff isn't going to do anything about the moaning (and he souldn't either), so just deal with it.
My 2 cents.
