Tone_Freak said:
The only persisting pattern is the fact that you are offering the responses which show your lack of capacity for understanding what certain amp mods do and what the more drastic amp mods are that alter the characteristics of the distortion.
It’s unfortunate that you consider opinions contrary to your own to be based on the other person’s “lack of capacity for understanding”; not just a lack of understanding, but a lack of the capacity to understand. Most people I’ve seen on this forum would never even consider posting something like this.
That crucially missing parameter is a huge distortion mod, and any accurate replication of what it does in reality would be much more fundamental than some of the other more subtle parameters that already exist in that section. So I have once again demonstrated that this parameter would be much more fundamental.
Try reading my post again. A variac will affect the tone. That is a fact I have not disputed. That the variac is a crucially missing parameter is your opinion; a valid opinion, but an opinion. You have demonstrated that you have an opinion about the variac.
Once again you fail to provide any reason to question that fact - which is true regardless of who states it or who has an opinion on it, either for or against. Your wishful thinking will not take away from the validity of that.
Again, I do not question whether a variac will affect the tone. I question your opinion that its omission is a major deficiency. I do not “wish” the variac to have no effect on tone, or to have it kept out of the Axe-FX.
LOL! You are reversing categories of what is considered an objective fact and what is a subjective tonal preference. Because if you take a person who lowers the dial and enjoys that sound and you compare that with a person who increases the dial and enjoys that higher variac setting instead - neither one of those is objectively "best" for the patch - its what type of the sound the person prefers. THAT is what is subjective and opinionated based on a persons preference.
I am not reversing fact and opinion. We are in agreement on this point. You are either misreading my post or intentionally manufacturing an argument. Both I think.
Whereas you believe that the addition of a variac dial would only change the tone fundamentally in my "opinion only" - you wrongly state that as my subjective opinion - a statement which you are getting straight from the crackpipe.
Yet again, this is not what I posted. I do not question whether a variac will affect the tone. I only say that whether it is a critically needed parameter is a matter of opinion. Your flippant accusation that I smoke crack is disgusting.
Nothing could be further from the truth... the Variac is a drastic mod of an amp and would be drastic on the Axe if the mod is just as accurately modeled - and would serve as an extremely useful utility for tons of people going for different types of distortion.
For some people, this would be true. Others would not find it so useful.
What makes you so special for the unit to forever always provide only one operating voltage in the default and no mod dial? You are very arrogant if you believe the Axe must only cater to your needs and others who also have not even an amateur knowledge of amp mod characteristics.
I am not special, nor do I provide anything. Cliff Chase provides everything (thanks Cliff!!!!). We are just two virtually insignificant users. I don’t believe, and have never suggested, that the Axe should cater only to my needs. And you have now labeled me as “arrogant” and “less-than-amateur” for things I never said or implied. I think anyone who *expected* FAS to cater to their needs could be considered arrogant.
From that you imply that you have no experience with knowing what the changed characteristics of modded amps are at all then, since you would have by now been able to at least provide some explanation of the sound of the mod that a variac changes does - but you have fallen short and since you have no idea what a variac mod does, so why are you even posting comments in this thread?
What I imply and what you infer are in no way related. And now I have ‘no experience’ and ‘have no idea what a variac does’. Both statements are incorrect.
You have no business in a discussion like this when you have no idea what you are even doing regarding the amp mod section of the unit, not to mention no idea what you are even blabbing about regarding this topic. LOL!
Perhaps you should petition to become a moderator. Then you could prune all the ‘blabbing’ of those ‘who have no idea what they are even doing’, or worse, disagree with you.
Well obviously a person would have to know what those advanced parameters do to the sound of an amp and how they interact with each other. So it is no wonder why you find your best results with the defaults. I recommend you continue to stick to those defaults.
While I sometimes adjust the low cut, sag, bias, and tone stack parameters, most of the advanced parameters work well for me at their default values. Your statement that users who use the default value are ignorant of a parameter’s purpose is incorrect. Your tone comes across as self-superior and condescending.
And btw, even if you did know what the hell you were talking about regarding the amp geek mod section, even if you still preferred the default values - THATs what is a persons "opinion". But it is not my opinion that the variac is a drastic amp mod, and it is NOT my opinion that such is a fundamentally tone altering mod.
Yes, as I have said all along, the first sentence is my opinion. Your last sentence stems from your poor reading comprehension or propensity towards argument, as I have never stated otherwise. You’re statement that those who disagree “don’t know what the hell they are talking about” is unfortunate, but at this point, no surprise.
You have very invalid assumptions about who has tried the Axe FX and who has not.
If you have tried the Axe, I stand corrected. Your posts from September 27 to present seemed to indicate you have never tried one…
“My final questions before i also order, because its one thing to to be the superior modeler out there, but can this unit be used on a professional recording? Because recently I was told that this unit is great live and "ok" in the studio. But I thought it was supposed to be excellent in the studio too is it not?”
“In other words. Will this unit give a sound as clear and as big as if one were recording real cabs inside million dollar studios? Can i really expect to have that million dollar sound? Because for only $2000 US, should i really expect for a unit to offer that magic when you put mics in front of cabs going into the best of tube rack pres and tube compressors and tube EQs worth many thousands of dollars? I mean is it a stretch to believe that for something only costing 2 grand to be at that same quality as the major studio sound? Is this really true?”
“In addition, I am trying to find out in other threads if I can alter the symmetry of the distortion waveform with editing any internals of the amp like bias and variac.”
No post from then till now suggests you have ever touched one. I was wrong to assume this was true, even if I was correct and your posts are based on pure speculation about the Axe. I am sure you will have one very shortly. I look forward to your insights.
I won’t be responding to any more of your posts. Further communication with you would be neither constructive nor enjoyable. Your post disputes points I never made and has no fewer than ten personal attacks based on those non-existent points. I believe you are annoyed that, in the amp sim request thread, I pointed out your habit of stating your opinions with phrases such as “It is a fact that”, and you’re retaliating. So be it. I guess I fired the first shot, so I’ll let you fire the last.
FWIW, I’m an EE and know what a variac does. I’ve used it many times to test low voltage equipment at a previous job, and brought it home to try on my amps after reading a Van Halen interview. I know many people on this forum have more experience using the variac in this application. For them, and for those users who would simply enjoy a variac model, I hope you get it at some point, along with a few things I’d like as well. Good times.