Fractal Tone Gurus-
I have a serious question to ask the brain trust on this forum. After reading many, many posts and reviews on this forum and others I pulled the trigger on a GLX D14r a few days ago. People here praised its transparent tone and many people here seem-ably are very happy with their sound through this wireless setup, comparing it favorably to expensive cables. When I A/B'd it to my guitar (Les Paul R9) through my normal (Monster) cable, there was a loss of the wonderful, organic distortion and harmonic overtones that made me love my Axe FX III so much in the first place. It sounded.... not bad... but nowhere close to the same as a cable. In short, it makes my beautiful Axe sound like a Line 6 POD from 2004.
I played with the gain settings, settling on the lowest setting. There is no additional gain that I can perceive coming from the unit. It "tickles the red" on the Axe when I play hard, just like the cable. I added an eq after the input, rolling off the high frequencies, but that is really not the problem--its the harmonics that give it the "full" sound that are missing. I tried changing the patch cable from my GLX to my AXE FX III, including trying using a normal 20 foot guitar cable as a patch cable -- no improvement. I tried using all of the different channel settings, no improvement.
I know I am not imagining the loss in tone. I am hoping sincerely that there is some setting I am missing since I know most of the people on this forum are as obsessed with their tone as me!
I really appreciate all of your help in advance. I hope I can figure this out, or back to the store it goes!
I have a serious question to ask the brain trust on this forum. After reading many, many posts and reviews on this forum and others I pulled the trigger on a GLX D14r a few days ago. People here praised its transparent tone and many people here seem-ably are very happy with their sound through this wireless setup, comparing it favorably to expensive cables. When I A/B'd it to my guitar (Les Paul R9) through my normal (Monster) cable, there was a loss of the wonderful, organic distortion and harmonic overtones that made me love my Axe FX III so much in the first place. It sounded.... not bad... but nowhere close to the same as a cable. In short, it makes my beautiful Axe sound like a Line 6 POD from 2004.
I played with the gain settings, settling on the lowest setting. There is no additional gain that I can perceive coming from the unit. It "tickles the red" on the Axe when I play hard, just like the cable. I added an eq after the input, rolling off the high frequencies, but that is really not the problem--its the harmonics that give it the "full" sound that are missing. I tried changing the patch cable from my GLX to my AXE FX III, including trying using a normal 20 foot guitar cable as a patch cable -- no improvement. I tried using all of the different channel settings, no improvement.
I know I am not imagining the loss in tone. I am hoping sincerely that there is some setting I am missing since I know most of the people on this forum are as obsessed with their tone as me!
I really appreciate all of your help in advance. I hope I can figure this out, or back to the store it goes!