Again I never claimed to be a designer or an electrical engineer. I clame to be a studio engineer with experience with a lot of gear and what a unit needs to be able to do in a studio invirement to be considered a pro studio unit these days. Nothing more nothing less. A basic standard function for studio gear is missing, and it makes the unit harder to interface in the studio. That’s what the OP was frustrated about. It’s not a huge problem for most people but non the less frustrating for the ones impacted.
In your professional studio I would assume you're using analog gear connected to your outboard mixer and/or audio interface(s). Those units entail ACDC conversion per se. In what way does Axe's analog connectivity compromise your recordings and mixes? I'm not a professional audio engineer. I'm just asking.
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