Working It: DIRECT RECORDING/HEADPHONE OUTPUT
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DIRECT RECORDING/HEADPHONE OUTPUT
Plug your headphones or a stereo 1/4” cable into this jack to provide private listening
or a direct output to a mixing board or recorder. Plugging into this jack turns on a built
in cabinet simulator that emulates a miked speaker cabinet. That means no direct box
is needed for recording or feeding a live PA setup; just plug into this direct out for
great sound right out of the box! Use a good quality cable to ensure the lowest possible
noise.
Set the Master Volume at 2 1/2 or lower to get a line level output for direct recording
or feeding another power amp from the AX2. If you want to use the direct out with the
speakers connected and the Master Volume higher than 2 1/2 (as in a live performance
situation where you’re using the amp for onstage monitoring and the line out to feed
the front of house mix), you may need to use an external 20 dB pad to knock down the
output volume and avoid overloading the input of your mixing board. Disconnect the
speakers from their jacks if you want to be able to practice or record silently.
IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER ABOUT THE DIRECT OUT
When you connect a cable to the direct/headphone output, the AX2 automatically
enables its built-in Speaker Emulator which gives you the sound of a miked-up cabinet
straight out of your AX2 and into your recorder or headphones, making the AX2 an
incredibly easy amp to use for recording – and a very pleasant amp to listen to through
headphones! If you leave the AX2’s internal speakers connected while using the
headphone/direct out jack, you’ll notice that the speakers will sound noticeably
darker. That is because the speaker emulation is applied to the AX2’s signal in the
digital domain, before the signal is converted to analog to feed the amplifiers of the
direct out and speakers. It’s the speaker emulation that you hear darkening the sound
output from the AX2 speakers.
There will be times when you want to use the direct out and have undarkened sound
from your AX2 speakers – like when you’re playing a gig, and you’re feeding the direct
out signal to a house sound system that has hardware speaker emulators available, and
you want to use the AX2 onstage as your monitor. We thought of that (obviously), and
gave you a way to defeat the speaker emulation in those situations. All you have to do
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