Wrong Leon.Go back to making videos, Leon.
I love that this forum is mostly free of this kind of idiocy, sadly so common in other music forums.
Oh thanks you for these kind words but I'm glad you got it all figured out!But it's now obvious that you did not understand anything about the studio work, about what a modern guitarist / music producer needs and about the future of music production in general.
The OP does have a point, in spite of the petulant way it was expressed.
I rarely disagree with Cliff, but the decision to use a fixed sample rate is something I would have advised against. I believe the community here skews towards live performing guitarists, for whom this isn’t an important issue, but in the studio it can be a significant matter. When working on a collaborative studio project, the choice of the project sample rate often isn’t up to the guitarist - you often must use a sample rate dictated by someone else, and, for a variety of reasons, it may not be 48 kHz
Of course there are workarounds, such as using another output instead of USB or using a conversion device, but these workarounds can be inconvenient compared to simply changing the output sample rate. The fact is competitors like Helix and Headrush have selectable output sample rates because that is a useful feature.
IMHO Fractal Audio is a victim of their own success here. The AxeFXIII is a wonder of I/O flexibility and the product page even touts it as “The center of your music workstation”. But without a selectable sample rate, IMHO it falls just a hair short of fulfilling that potential.
Yes higher sample rate does matter even on guitars. I do most of my sessions at 96k now in ProTools. Call me crazy but I even do analog summing with an API console in my studio. The OP does point out some strange decisions made by Fractal Audio. It must be ok to point that out without being called an idiot. If you make units with digital I/o there are two things needed. The ability to sync to external clock and switching sample rate from minimum 44.1 to 96k..I run my Axe FX 2 with analog out into my API so it’s not a huge problem for me. But still a proper digital connection would be nice on a new product.
I dunno if it’s a god idea to reply but anyways here we go..If you thing sample rate is only about frequency responce your sadly misstaken. An amp mic’d up will sound better at 96k that 48k and it’s easy to hear. Even if the speaker isn’t putting out much info over say 7.5k.I for one say AGREED axe fx should come with a klon centaur bundled and I should be able to record a tuba through a mic directly into it but I record at demo tape sample/bit rate so where is my support huh?
I for one say not fair! Cliff shafting the cellar ska movement for too long!
16000 khz support when
I dunno if it’s a god idea to reply but anyways here we go..If you thing sample rate is only about frequency responce your sadly misstaken. An amp mic’d up will sound better at 96k that 48k and it’s easy to hear. Even if the speaker isn’t putting out much info over say 7.5k.
An amp mic’d up will sound better at 96k that 48k and it’s easy to hear. Even if the speaker isn’t putting out much info over say 7.5k.
You know, that's the problem in today's world..... nobody talks no more....
Everything is some angry rant
Call me old fashioned but I'd probably just hit up the other producers I work frequently with and be like:
"Hey guys, there's this INCREDIBLE piece of gear I just got that does all these wonderful things (insert links showing what it can do) and it's gonna really step up our tracks and make everything sound like sex!! The only caveat is that we gotta have everything set to 48k, is that cool?"
To which the other guys be like:
"48k? Dude that's totally weird, but no probs, we can do that....we ARE producers after all!"
At which point you thank them, buy some beers, and send a link showing all the advantages of using 48k, and be the pioneers of the revolution....
But instead we choose cussin up the creators of said device on an internet forum.....
Yeah, I agree with Cliff....the quality of everything is going down for real.....that includes conversations, people, etc etc.....
You guys at fractal audio did an amazing job creating the AXE FX 3, it's an amazing piece of equipment with amazing capability and versatility of sounds.
No but ranting and accusing as the OP did is stupid and counter-productive.
This is also an RTFM moment. Nothing to brag about.