I'll start out by saying I contain more vodka than blood right now, so good luck with this post. Even off my nut though, I'm fairly thorough with my proof-reading. I'll basically summarise this post right now now with: Probably take your guitar to a tech.
Really, if you're getting any kind of crazy noise, either something is physically wrong with the Axe-FX, or with something else in your chain (i.e. wiring, pickups, crap cables, whatever). It's fairly safe to say it's not the Axe, coz you say you're getting it elsewhere too. If you want a crapload of gain in your sound, there's always the potential for a crapload of noise to come with it. So you need to make sure each part of your chain is as quiet as it can be. Better that than trying to fix it after the fact with gates 'n' whatnot.
With my band I ran way more gain than I normally would, to the point where if I play through those patches now at home they sound just ridiculous. I was the metal part of the band with a violin and a double bass, and that's the sound I ended up with for it all to work. But even with what I'd consider to be excessive gain, noise wasn't a problem. The Axe under any kind of reasonable conditions won't add ridiculous noise to your sound... but you need to feed it a good clean signal to start with. Feed it crap, and anything that boosts the signal with boost the crap with it.
The fact that you get it with the Axe, the POD, the software sims, etc... kinda narrows it down. If you've swapped everything else out and the only thing left is your guitar... it's either something about the guitar, or you're just running soooooooooooooo much gain that it's inevitably going to come with a boatload of noise. Going by your sound in the clips... you're not running wildly absurd gain levels. If it's the guitar... the very first part of your chain is producing noise you don't want, which then runs through compression, drives, EQs, amps, whatever you're using, all boosting that noise up. Sort out the source of the problem. You said yourself in that video, you're playing an old Charvel with worn out frets... maybe it's time to visit a tech to have a few things looked at.
All this said, I also noticed in the Youtube link that did work you're running your Axe into input 1 in the front of your Firepod. This is a mic/instrument input, whereas you're running a line level out of your Axe. So you should either be plugging into inputs 3 - 8 in the front, or if you're dead set on going in through input 1 I'm guessing there's a line in on the rear panel. I actually own a Firepod, I just don't remember and can't be bothered looking. But you shouldn't be running a line level into the front inputs of 1/2. It says it right there on the front panel, "Mic/Instrument".
And just finally... when you first started playing in that clip... pretty decent right hand you've got going there.
Really, if you're getting any kind of crazy noise, either something is physically wrong with the Axe-FX, or with something else in your chain (i.e. wiring, pickups, crap cables, whatever). It's fairly safe to say it's not the Axe, coz you say you're getting it elsewhere too. If you want a crapload of gain in your sound, there's always the potential for a crapload of noise to come with it. So you need to make sure each part of your chain is as quiet as it can be. Better that than trying to fix it after the fact with gates 'n' whatnot.
With my band I ran way more gain than I normally would, to the point where if I play through those patches now at home they sound just ridiculous. I was the metal part of the band with a violin and a double bass, and that's the sound I ended up with for it all to work. But even with what I'd consider to be excessive gain, noise wasn't a problem. The Axe under any kind of reasonable conditions won't add ridiculous noise to your sound... but you need to feed it a good clean signal to start with. Feed it crap, and anything that boosts the signal with boost the crap with it.
The fact that you get it with the Axe, the POD, the software sims, etc... kinda narrows it down. If you've swapped everything else out and the only thing left is your guitar... it's either something about the guitar, or you're just running soooooooooooooo much gain that it's inevitably going to come with a boatload of noise. Going by your sound in the clips... you're not running wildly absurd gain levels. If it's the guitar... the very first part of your chain is producing noise you don't want, which then runs through compression, drives, EQs, amps, whatever you're using, all boosting that noise up. Sort out the source of the problem. You said yourself in that video, you're playing an old Charvel with worn out frets... maybe it's time to visit a tech to have a few things looked at.
All this said, I also noticed in the Youtube link that did work you're running your Axe into input 1 in the front of your Firepod. This is a mic/instrument input, whereas you're running a line level out of your Axe. So you should either be plugging into inputs 3 - 8 in the front, or if you're dead set on going in through input 1 I'm guessing there's a line in on the rear panel. I actually own a Firepod, I just don't remember and can't be bothered looking. But you shouldn't be running a line level into the front inputs of 1/2. It says it right there on the front panel, "Mic/Instrument".
And just finally... when you first started playing in that clip... pretty decent right hand you've got going there.
