parlopower
Inspired
I have a problem:
I used to own a Mark II. Sold it last year and got an XL instead last week. Last firmware I an on the Mark II was Quantum 2 I thin, I installed Quantum 8.02 on the XL.
Now all my patches (I loaded my old ones from back then) sound way different. I compared with recordings I made with my Mark II, used the same guitar, and the XL sounds, well, actually quite bad compared to the former recordings. The sound is harsh, scratchy, the patches distort much earlier and much more than sued to, the highs are chopped off a lot (neck humbucker for rhythm sounds totally unusable which wasn't the case before).
I reset all global settings, re-installed the firmware, still the same.
One thing I noticed: When I adjust the AD input levels, the instrument input control does not make much of a difference. I have to turn it all the way down before the sound gets any softer.
Is this a matter of the new firmware? From Q2 to Q8 it shouldn't change in the way I describe, should it? Is there a global input setting that I overlook that overloads the input? Is there any difference between the input level from the Mark II to the XL?
I used to own a Mark II. Sold it last year and got an XL instead last week. Last firmware I an on the Mark II was Quantum 2 I thin, I installed Quantum 8.02 on the XL.
Now all my patches (I loaded my old ones from back then) sound way different. I compared with recordings I made with my Mark II, used the same guitar, and the XL sounds, well, actually quite bad compared to the former recordings. The sound is harsh, scratchy, the patches distort much earlier and much more than sued to, the highs are chopped off a lot (neck humbucker for rhythm sounds totally unusable which wasn't the case before).
I reset all global settings, re-installed the firmware, still the same.
One thing I noticed: When I adjust the AD input levels, the instrument input control does not make much of a difference. I have to turn it all the way down before the sound gets any softer.
Is this a matter of the new firmware? From Q2 to Q8 it shouldn't change in the way I describe, should it? Is there a global input setting that I overlook that overloads the input? Is there any difference between the input level from the Mark II to the XL?