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Determining Your Setup

The "Setup" filter helps you to focus on those presets best-suited for how you use your Axe-Fx.

FRFR/Direct presets (like all of the Factory presets) are designed for "full-range flat-response" systems such as studio monitors, PAs, headphones, etc.

Pwr. Amp + Cab presets use real power amps and guitar speakers.

4-Cable Method (aka :4CM") presets require a special setup with connectors both in front of and in the effects loop of a real amp.

Fx Loop presets in the loop of a real amp. A loop may be SERIES or PARALLEL and the preset needs to be built accordingly.

Gtr Amp Input presets should be used in front of a (real) head or combo. Guitar->Axe-Fx->Amp Input.

Other setups also exist (e.g. combinations of the above).

The Axe-Fx II manual (chapter three) includes more information about setups.

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Name Old DigiDelays

ID 3384

Author Admin M@

Fractal Product Axe-FX II XL+

Firmware Version 19.x

Set Up Direct

Description Here is the preset used on this demonstration. https://soundcloud.com/fractalaudio/old-digi-delays So Golden is trending, but let's not neglect the kinds of "washes" you can achieve with rhythmic tails. The Axe-Fx allows you to do some very subtle and powerful things in this regard. Here, for example, is a very basic dual delay: 1/8, plus dotted 8th. I added a little cross-feedback -- as it evolves, the sense of width is reduced because the common center material takes over. I've got R TIME OFFSET at 99.2% so things don't stack too precisely as this happens. Imperfect was as good as you could get in the days when you would have had to do this with two separate pedals. Because we're talking about vintage digital, I've set BIT REDUCTION to 11. (I know, I know... who ever heard of a 13-bit effect? But with the Axe-Fx, YOU decide what you like.) I let the last tail ring so you can hear that nasty little layer of grit. Even when it is relatively quiet compared to the louder playing, this adds an interesting aspect to the whole sound -- like the noise of an amp. I remember how I sometimes used to "hate" that sound. Now I tweak it back in with nostalgic appreciation! The EQ of the delay is set to taste with some high cut, low cut, and a little bump at 2.6k. I'm playing a Les Paul Jr. (P90s, I hit the pickup switch from MID to BRIDGE at 30 seconds). The delay goes in to two "Hipower" amps with the stereo factory Hipower cab. My usual punchy PEDAL and barely there STUDIO compressors are in line. I programmed a cheezy lofi drum machine because I felt it was important to show how pushing/dragging into the long delay tail creates a human feel even though the drum machine and echoes are quantized. There are NO buss effects or compression. (I did drew in a slight velocity curve on the hihat to create a subtle pulse.)

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Genre Experimental

Instrument Electric Guitar

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Date UploadedMay 29, 2015