devices · Axe-Fx II · setup

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Axe-Fx II
time
2 minutes
needs
usb cable, Chrome
source
fractal manual
  1. step 01

    plug the Axe-Fx II into your computer with a usb cable.

  2. step 02

    open gridleak in Chrome and pick Axe-Fx II in the header.

  3. step 03

    on a preset page, press send. enter a preset number and check it.

  4. step 04

    press install. keep the cable in until the screen says installed.

if it doesn’t work

rig setup

pick one: the answer follows you onto amp pages.

What are you plugging into?
cab sim

leave it on

You're feeding a full-range system, so the Axe-Fx II has to supply the speaker.

still a capable studio processor.

front panel and Axe-Edit, straight into monitors, with USB alongside.

Hook it up
  1. 01
    Guitar Front INSTRUMENT IN
  2. 02
    OUTPUT 1 XLR Monitors or interface
  3. 03
    USB Computer
Set it up
cab block
On
INPUT 1 LEFT SELECT
FRONT, or the front jack does nothing

Get this one right first

The cab block rule

Cab block on into anything full-range: headphones, an FRFR speaker, the desk, your computer. Cab block off into anything that ends in a real guitar speaker. A cab block is a speaker simulation. Into a real cab it stacks two speakers. Left off into a full-range system, you hear a raw amp with no speaker at all.

Axe-Fx III Owner's Manual

Input 1 is the instrument input and carries Fractal's “Secret Sauce” circuitry, tuned for guitar and bass pickups. The other inputs are line level and will take a guitar, but without that front end. Plug the guitar into Input 1.

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