Tone Controls All on 10

When you roll down the Tone control on a guitar you are subtracting treble from the original guitar signal. Keeping the Tone control on 10 lets the most signal through to your amp. Rolling down the Treble, Middle, and Bass controls on a typical amp also subtracts from the signal coming into it. Keeping the T, M, and B controls on 10 lets the most signal through to your ears.

The other night I got to playing around with the AX1500 and decided to compare the drive/amp choices. I used 9 patches for the comparison.

On all 9 B channels, I turned off everything except Drive/Amp which I
set as below. This setup is the closest I've come to getting the same
sound from the AX1500 as when in bypass mode.
CLCOMP
     OFF Drive
     7.3 Level
     10 Treble
     10 Middle
     10 Bass

Then, on each of the 9 A channels, I turned off everything except
Drive/Amp with each of the 9 patches getting a different Drive/Amp
choice. All Drive/Amp choice were set up as below.
TUBEOD-TOPBST-BRITSTK
CLDIST-FATDIST-BIGFUZZ
MTLDIST-SEATLE-USHG
     4.3 Drive
     6.3 Level
     10 Treble
     10 Middle
     10 Bass

This was a pretty cool experiment and I've since tweaked some drive and level settings to even out volume between the 9. I still have all the tone controls pegged on 10 however. This has been a great way to start from scratch with getting a straight drive/amp sound and then adding other effects.

ashley