Kept coming back to see whether I was wrong but every time I felt the same.
I live in an apartment and play late at night, midnight, etc. Don't like using headphones so I would play through my JBL305 studio monitors at a low volume.
The tones just didn't feel right, especially clean tones.
My process was as follows:
Load up amp and cab
pull up the preset level meter and increase the amp level until I'm near the 0 db line.
A lot of times, even when I did this, the tones were still too quiet at times, on my audio interface (Scarlet 6i6) not even hitting -12 db.
Especially trying to get clean tones. I would be able to hear my guitar strings sometimes louder than the actual tones. Yet music and youtube videos coming out of my system were at a good volume.
Through headphones things would sound bad.
Some presets were so quiet, I couldn't even hear the effects on them if they were one of the weird ones with tons of effects. Presets that were ambient pads, I couldn't hear at all at times.
All of this coming out of OUT 1, with the knob at about noon.
I then switched to OUT 2, set the mode to "Unity Gain" dimed the OUT 2 knob to max (On FM3), set the preset level using the meter, but it would still be extremely quiet.
However if I were to record the tones into a DAW and play it back, it would sound better than what I was hearing live.
I would get so frustrated that I sold them. 3 different units, at 3 different periods of time. All sold.
I live in an apartment and play late at night, midnight, etc. Don't like using headphones so I would play through my JBL305 studio monitors at a low volume.
The tones just didn't feel right, especially clean tones.
My process was as follows:
Load up amp and cab
pull up the preset level meter and increase the amp level until I'm near the 0 db line.
A lot of times, even when I did this, the tones were still too quiet at times, on my audio interface (Scarlet 6i6) not even hitting -12 db.
Especially trying to get clean tones. I would be able to hear my guitar strings sometimes louder than the actual tones. Yet music and youtube videos coming out of my system were at a good volume.
Through headphones things would sound bad.
Some presets were so quiet, I couldn't even hear the effects on them if they were one of the weird ones with tons of effects. Presets that were ambient pads, I couldn't hear at all at times.
All of this coming out of OUT 1, with the knob at about noon.
I then switched to OUT 2, set the mode to "Unity Gain" dimed the OUT 2 knob to max (On FM3), set the preset level using the meter, but it would still be extremely quiet.
However if I were to record the tones into a DAW and play it back, it would sound better than what I was hearing live.
I would get so frustrated that I sold them. 3 different units, at 3 different periods of time. All sold.