shasha
Fractal Fanatic
Yeah I'm not a gear snob or anything, but over the years I've basically had nothing but issues with unbalanced equipement and have basically sworn it off and refuse to own it. I have some nasty hum going on in my house as well (another story all together) and at this point I know that unbalanced equipment will be rendered virtually unusable. I can't even use single coil guitars in my house it's so bad. I'm not saying that I have amazing gear or that I'm superior in my ability to purchase stuff, I'm just saying that I know what works for me and I don't like wasting my time these days.
Anyway I was a bit disappointed to see that the AxeFXII's 2nd set of outputs is not balanced, but used some new fangled wizardry called humbuster technology. I can see where this would be useful for people who don't have balanced inputs on whatever they're connecting to, but I thought that it was a bit of a slight to those of us who were 'better prepared'. I'm not against new ideas (obviously or I wouldn't own an AxeFX), but I do like proven concepts.
Well I went ahead and made a few cables up, hooked it up, fired up my floor monitors and sure enough....no frickin' hum,,,,at all. What's even cooler is that I understand the way that it does this thanks to the manual and it's not only innovative and brilliant, but it actually WORKS.
So I'm just a little surprised that there hasn't been a lot more brought up about this revolutionary idea here. Seriously, as much as we sit here and nitpick and over analyze even the smallest tonal detail and when something doesn't seem quite right we get on here and 'report' it I think that it's only fair that praise is given when it's deserved.
It may not be a huge deal to people that don't live down the street from me in Humtown USA, but trust me when I say that it's fantastic!
Anyway I was a bit disappointed to see that the AxeFXII's 2nd set of outputs is not balanced, but used some new fangled wizardry called humbuster technology. I can see where this would be useful for people who don't have balanced inputs on whatever they're connecting to, but I thought that it was a bit of a slight to those of us who were 'better prepared'. I'm not against new ideas (obviously or I wouldn't own an AxeFX), but I do like proven concepts.
Well I went ahead and made a few cables up, hooked it up, fired up my floor monitors and sure enough....no frickin' hum,,,,at all. What's even cooler is that I understand the way that it does this thanks to the manual and it's not only innovative and brilliant, but it actually WORKS.
So I'm just a little surprised that there hasn't been a lot more brought up about this revolutionary idea here. Seriously, as much as we sit here and nitpick and over analyze even the smallest tonal detail and when something doesn't seem quite right we get on here and 'report' it I think that it's only fair that praise is given when it's deserved.
It may not be a huge deal to people that don't live down the street from me in Humtown USA, but trust me when I say that it's fantastic!
