Controls & Connections: FRONT PANEL
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When we say “Rows,” we’re talking about the left-to-right group of six settings for a
particular aspect of the AX2’s function. For instance, the top Edit Row of the AX2 has
the label AUX/MIDI at the left, and includes the settings “Aux Input Mix, Aux Input
Bass, Aux Input Treble, Aux Input Reverb, MIDI Channel, and Transmit Sounds.”
The Row Select Buttons each do double duty. You press a button once and that
chooses one row; you press it a second time, and that chooses a second row. To see this
in action, repeatedly press the little black button to the left of the AUX/MIDI Row’s
label. You’ll see that you light up a little red arrow pointing to AUX/MIDI, then one
that points to the NOISE/GATE Row, then AUX/MIDI, then NOISE/GATE. You get
the idea. The other Row Select buttons work the same way.
These rows are laid out in the order that sound flows through the AX2 – the way it
would flow through a classic guitar rig with a bunch of pedals, and an effects rack, and
an amplifier and cabinets....
Input effects come first, in the top three Edit Rows. These are the things that you
apply to the guitar signal before it hits the amplifier’s preamp tone processing. Noise
Gate, Compression, Distortion Boxes, Wah, and Volume Pedal. Think of these as your
built-in stomp box collection.
Think of the next three Edit Rows down as the Amp and Cabinet portion of the
AX2 processing. This is where you’ll find the controls of the Amp Models – Drive,
Bass, Mid, Treble, and Bright Switch, as well as a volume control for the Amp Model’s
output level. Plus the kinds of sound shaping tools that you might find built into an
amplifier – Graphic EQ and Tremolo – and the control for the AX2 cabinet
simulations, which emulate the distinct sounds that you get when using different
speaker cabinet configurations.
Continuing our downward tour of the Edit Rows, we come next to the parts of the
AX2 that you can think of as its Effects Rack. This is where you’ll find digital delays,
digital reverb, chorus and more. You’ll also find several emulations of classic effect
boxes from the past, like Tape Echo and Ring Modulation. Even a rotary speaker
emulation.
After that, you’ve got a row for turning individual portions of the effects processing on
and off, as you would do from a pedal board (like the Line 6 Floor Board).
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