Tahoebrian5
Fractal Fanatic
One last thought, the factory presets in the unit may not be the updated versions for newer firmware. I would download the latest ones and install them. This may help a bunch
Steve I talked to Matt Picone of the fractal Audio company and he helped me over the phone for over 2 hours check my reply on my post to what all the tricks that you should be focusing on. It's hard as a line 6 Helix owner I was overwhelmed and frustrated but as I got to know some simple tricks and navigated around the unit it's become easier and easier if you have a choice understand you got to make it in my position I don't necessarily have to get rid of my line 6 helix but the quality is in there you have to experiment with the amp EQ. For example but you can read my other post. One thing also Matt said it's experiment with a low cut and high-cut. A lot of times players were trying to have a low cut a 120 and to be honest with you when I played around it it should be more like the 300 to 400. The Amp I am playing through is not going to always produce that low frequency and it's going to sound like crap. I'll have to look at the notes again and try to give you more pointers. A lot of your sound is definitely going to come out of your EQ now as far as the 3D sound I'm not sure if what exactly you're talking about but I haven't read all your post as far as making it come alive or making it guitar sound like two guitars like a d tune, but anyway definitely three things to consider definitely mess with the amp settings especially the amp EQ. When you put a drive on there definitely make sure the levels all the way up the gain can be at 3 or 4 is fine the tone should be around 12 not that high. It all depends on your tastes. Finally when you go to a EQ you experiment where you want whether it be a 5 band, 7 band or 10 band. Matt said that you can have multiple EQ's to get even closer to your tones. One thing you got to keep in mind is this is a professional unit. So a lot of the professionals really experiment with a lot parameters to get what they want. that's why I'm going to keep my ax8 because the quality of the unit. Definitely experiment with the EQ with the cleans. Well good luck and I hope you find a satisfaction in this unit.
Congratulations!
Do you have much experience with 80's-90's studio rack effects? Just curious. The Ax8 is no more difficult than anything I've owned since the late 80's when it comes to studio gear. I know we're all different and it's great that many of you love the editor and hooking up this extra gear to the Ax8 but to me it's just 'old hat' using the unit itself. Although I was a software systems problem solver for the State and the major hc corporations, I'm still old-school with guitar stuff and unless I'm using it to record on to a computer , don't want computers involved! I will hand it to Fractal though , to someone like me it's easy as can be to write and edit on the unit itself and they offer many other options for others. I betcha the majority of the Ax8 users use Axe-Edit and Fracpad,etc. I wonder if I'm right