Gytaxor
Inspired
Hey guys,
so I was working on my lead tone after the Q2 update and I was watching JP video where he says he sets his gain on Mark IIC to max to get his lead tone. So I thought I'd give it a try too
not bad, but not exactly the tone I wanted so I started changing the amps. First I reset the block and then I backed down the bass a little and max out the gain and starting going through the amps.
Strange thing happened - for some reason I find most of the tones very usable - which is weird - before when I tried extreme settings like that, most of the time the amp was pretty much uncontrollable - I also turned the gate off, to see how noisy the amps are. And again, not as bad as I remember. Then I found couple class A amps and mainly fenders where the tones were not even that much distorted as I would expect. And that is something that is weird to me too - before they were distorting like on 2 or 3 but now on 10 they were kinda like crunchy but nowhere to being gainy. Also not as many amps were clipping the red clip LEDs on AXE as I expected and overall they were not as loud too.
Of course I was not messing with any other parameters just flipping through the amps, so the master volume was set automatically to default.
So now I am wondering - is it how it is supposed to be?
It is not bad, just made me think about it, so I though I'd ask here if anyone can confirm that or educate me, that yes it is normal I know that on the real amp I would be probably blowing all the tubes etc., but this is simply different from the behavior I remember from previous firmwares.
Also my guitars have fairly moderate to high output, so I don't think it is the guitars. My input settings tickle the red once in a while, so I think it is not low input signal.
Any thoughts on this? Am I just ignorant of something? did something escape my attention in the release notes?
As I said, though, it still sounds good, I mean REAL good. Q2 is great sounding.
so I was working on my lead tone after the Q2 update and I was watching JP video where he says he sets his gain on Mark IIC to max to get his lead tone. So I thought I'd give it a try too
not bad, but not exactly the tone I wanted so I started changing the amps. First I reset the block and then I backed down the bass a little and max out the gain and starting going through the amps.
Strange thing happened - for some reason I find most of the tones very usable - which is weird - before when I tried extreme settings like that, most of the time the amp was pretty much uncontrollable - I also turned the gate off, to see how noisy the amps are. And again, not as bad as I remember. Then I found couple class A amps and mainly fenders where the tones were not even that much distorted as I would expect. And that is something that is weird to me too - before they were distorting like on 2 or 3 but now on 10 they were kinda like crunchy but nowhere to being gainy. Also not as many amps were clipping the red clip LEDs on AXE as I expected and overall they were not as loud too.
Of course I was not messing with any other parameters just flipping through the amps, so the master volume was set automatically to default.
So now I am wondering - is it how it is supposed to be?
It is not bad, just made me think about it, so I though I'd ask here if anyone can confirm that or educate me, that yes it is normal I know that on the real amp I would be probably blowing all the tubes etc., but this is simply different from the behavior I remember from previous firmwares.
Also my guitars have fairly moderate to high output, so I don't think it is the guitars. My input settings tickle the red once in a while, so I think it is not low input signal.
Any thoughts on this? Am I just ignorant of something? did something escape my attention in the release notes?
As I said, though, it still sounds good, I mean REAL good. Q2 is great sounding.