wnicholson
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I have tried to troubleshoot this in past threads... and found out I had TWO Problems. 1 was a light dimmer which was interfering with my signal... which I solved.
The second issue is this "ghost in the machine" issue I have with my AxeFx2 XL.
My patches used to work fine, but then started sounding wacky. Here's what I've experienced:
Downloads / patches I am intimately familiar with - and have played for years are:
1. Extending the reverb trail for 15 seconds on most everything I download. It's one long echo!
2. Out of nowhere I came back to my unit and same patch as I left, and it was as if I put an MXR phaser on it at full sweep.
3. I have lost nuance in my patches - all my high gain patches sound like double gain.
4. Patches that I'm downloading immediately clip and I get a "cpu overload" on a number of them. These are patches that have been downloaded by others thousands of times... which are literally unplayable because they just clip immediately.
5. Even though I'm not clipping on my meters (which normally tickle red), the OUT 1 is clipping on any number of patches now.
6. I can hear the tone of pretty much all the presets that don't overload the CPU - and the tone is still there - but there's an extra layer of harsh tones and breakup over it. To the average ear - it's sounds decent... but if you're an axe player - you can totally tell the preset has too much gain and is off.
I have reset my unit completely. Cleared the ram, presets, everything... restored factory presets with no problem. And a lot of low / no gain patches sound fine. But once I get into high gain ones, everything goes wacky like above.
I have switched guitars and cables and even just taken the unit out of my studio into a different room and only used headphones. Same issues.
I know the Axe extremely well from a tone standpoint - been playing it for 5 years. This thing is off. Before I send it in for service... I wanted to list the above issues in case anyone might be able to tell me what's going on.
I speculate that even though the ram tests ok, that somewhere in the chip set (RAM or otherwise) - something got fried - and although the unit partially works... it also chokes when accessing bigger patches or certain blocks.
Thanks for the help!
The second issue is this "ghost in the machine" issue I have with my AxeFx2 XL.
My patches used to work fine, but then started sounding wacky. Here's what I've experienced:
Downloads / patches I am intimately familiar with - and have played for years are:
1. Extending the reverb trail for 15 seconds on most everything I download. It's one long echo!
2. Out of nowhere I came back to my unit and same patch as I left, and it was as if I put an MXR phaser on it at full sweep.
3. I have lost nuance in my patches - all my high gain patches sound like double gain.
4. Patches that I'm downloading immediately clip and I get a "cpu overload" on a number of them. These are patches that have been downloaded by others thousands of times... which are literally unplayable because they just clip immediately.
5. Even though I'm not clipping on my meters (which normally tickle red), the OUT 1 is clipping on any number of patches now.
6. I can hear the tone of pretty much all the presets that don't overload the CPU - and the tone is still there - but there's an extra layer of harsh tones and breakup over it. To the average ear - it's sounds decent... but if you're an axe player - you can totally tell the preset has too much gain and is off.
I have reset my unit completely. Cleared the ram, presets, everything... restored factory presets with no problem. And a lot of low / no gain patches sound fine. But once I get into high gain ones, everything goes wacky like above.
I have switched guitars and cables and even just taken the unit out of my studio into a different room and only used headphones. Same issues.
I know the Axe extremely well from a tone standpoint - been playing it for 5 years. This thing is off. Before I send it in for service... I wanted to list the above issues in case anyone might be able to tell me what's going on.
I speculate that even though the ram tests ok, that somewhere in the chip set (RAM or otherwise) - something got fried - and although the unit partially works... it also chokes when accessing bigger patches or certain blocks.
Thanks for the help!