devices · Axe-Fx III · learn · 01 of 08 · 4 min
what you actually bought
the one thing
A whole guitar rig in one box, built by dropping blocks onto a grid and wiring them together. How it sounds depends mostly on what you plug it into.
what it is
A rackmount processor built around a 14x6 stereo grid, with two amp and cab pairs per preset, eight scenes, and four independent channels inside every block. It is driven from a front panel, not footswitches. Footswitches are a separate purchase.
check your modeler
If yours is a floorboard with nine switches it is an FM9. With three, it is an FM3. If it uses X and Y rather than channels A to D, it is an Axe-Fx II, a different generation running Ares rather than Cygnus.
check this first
The Axe-Fx III has no footswitches. It is driven from its front panel until you add an FC controller.