tonygtr said:
There is nothing funny. I hooked up several other guitars that weren't mine to the Axe, and also into real amps. The results where all the same.
There *is* something funny going on at your end because this doesn't happen for anybody else except you.
If you want anybody here to be able to help you with this then you'll have to be a bit more forthcoming and answer some more of the questions that we ask you and try some of the thing we suggest that you try.
Does this only happen when you have a Vol/Filter Block in the Layout?
I.e. What happens if there is no Vol Block?
What happens if the Vol Block comes after the Amp Block?
Does this only happen with hi-gain presets or does it also happen with clean presets too?
Which amp types have you been using where this has been happening?
When you plug into a regular guitar amp (i.e. not the Axe) with these same guitars, does the same thing happen?
Are you sure that you're actually using a Vol effect in the Vol/Filter Block and not a Filter effect?
And why have you written the Subject line of this thread the way that you have?
Your problem is not that the Vol Block is losing treble. Your problem is that your guitar's vol pots, when connected to the Axe, are atypically adding treble rather than losing treble when you turn them down, no?
If that's not the problem then please re-state the problem for me because that's what I've been assuming the problem is.
That's what the problem sounded like in your clips.
The Vol effect in the Vol/filter Block works great over here. It's like the best vol pedal I've ever had. It doesn't colour the sound *at all* at any volume.
I always put my vol pedals after my gain effects or after my preamp if I'm getting hi-gain effects from the preamp.
This allows me to get the same amount of gain at any volume without changing the tone either, and I can adjust the amount of gain via my guitar's vol pot. But when *I* turn the guitar's vol pot down I lose some top end, and that's why I have switchable treble bleed circuits in all my guitars that I use for rock music.
With the Axe, I put the Vol Block, with a Vol effect controlled via CC pedal, after the Amp Block and i don't get your problems happening for me.
When I next get a chance to set it up, I'll try putting the Vol effect in front of the Amp Block and see if I can reproduce your problem. but I don't expect to be able to reproduce your problem.
Something is quite off here.
If this type of thing was a known problem that could arise if the Axe's components (eg. input buffer) were malfunctioning in some way then Cliff, who has already participated in this thread, would have said something by now.
So it's pretty much got to be something you're doing that is causing the problem.