Hi All,
I've been asking a fair questions lately & really appreciate the responses. I bought the AF3 & FC12 recently so it's been a huge learning curve thus far. I've been trying to set it up & tweak it for playing live with the band. Anyway yesterday I was forced into taking it to rehearsal before I really have it set as I want because my valve amp went up in smoke!
I was fairly happy with the sounds, they need tweaking some more, but the lack of volume surprised me. I can only use my JVM on about a quarter to a third volume but I needed the Axe set up at full everything! Now yes I know that solid state watt for watt just aren't going to give the same but even so. I am sure that I am doing something wrong hence the post.
So the set up was: AF3 running into an SLA-2 with two Orange PPC12OB (Orange 2x12 open back with Vintage 30's 16ohm) in stereo. The output of the Axe was at full as was the SLA! It was barely loud enough to keep up with the drums & bass.
Looking this morning I see that most of my settings have the Amp block output level at about -40db. This is because I am getting a clipping associated with the meters probably 6db in the red. The only way to tame it seemed to be to reduce the output level of the amp block. I expect that this is where my problems are rooted so how should I go about resolving this? One thing that springs to mind is should I have the Axe output at +4db & if so is that ok to run into the SLA?
Any help appreciated as usual.
I've been asking a fair questions lately & really appreciate the responses. I bought the AF3 & FC12 recently so it's been a huge learning curve thus far. I've been trying to set it up & tweak it for playing live with the band. Anyway yesterday I was forced into taking it to rehearsal before I really have it set as I want because my valve amp went up in smoke!
I was fairly happy with the sounds, they need tweaking some more, but the lack of volume surprised me. I can only use my JVM on about a quarter to a third volume but I needed the Axe set up at full everything! Now yes I know that solid state watt for watt just aren't going to give the same but even so. I am sure that I am doing something wrong hence the post.
So the set up was: AF3 running into an SLA-2 with two Orange PPC12OB (Orange 2x12 open back with Vintage 30's 16ohm) in stereo. The output of the Axe was at full as was the SLA! It was barely loud enough to keep up with the drums & bass.
Looking this morning I see that most of my settings have the Amp block output level at about -40db. This is because I am getting a clipping associated with the meters probably 6db in the red. The only way to tame it seemed to be to reduce the output level of the amp block. I expect that this is where my problems are rooted so how should I go about resolving this? One thing that springs to mind is should I have the Axe output at +4db & if so is that ok to run into the SLA?
Any help appreciated as usual.
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