Axe-Fx III Tutorial - Edge of Breakup Tones - Tips and Tricks 

In an tube amp, there’s a moment where the signal goes from clean to starting to have saturation, it’s been on the edge of the tube breaking up; it’s generally a clean tone that might be saturated when you play harder, or a clean tone with slight saturation. It’s called Edge of Breakup :)

Hell has frozen over!

Must have been the weather that day :p

The Deluxe is more my jam but the Twin is so good for glassy tones!

When you select a block, in this case an amp block, to the left you can see "CHANNEL > A B C D", see how Leon's channels change when he is on a different scene and amp? That's how you get different amps if you are using only 1 amp block. 1 amp block = 4 different amps (A B C D channels).

"Look out mate, this Boogie is a BIG ONE"

Yep :)

Yeah, hopefully I can get into it this month.

Leon Todd awesome!

There's hundreds of great factory presets and thousands more other users have created. 90% of the time i just use an amp model, a cab model and a delay and I get lost!

Thanks for the quick reply and good news. I'll definitely watch some more of your videos on this thing.

​@@Sharppz15 Its probably a bit overkill if you are just going to use presets and have no real desire to deep dive. The axefx doesnt sound 10x better than modern vsts and vsts have a better update cycle/ are cheaper. I mean just checkout Neural DSP or Bias All the same advances that are available to Fractal are available to anyone else paying attention to research papers or with a penchant for DSP engineering. What it does do is allow you to have those sounds in a stable, gig ready platform with huge configuration/ modulation options, great I/O and delegating the processing to outboard gear instead of having your computer do it. I definitely wouldn't think of getting it just for sound quality even though it sounds great, there are cheaper options out there that sound almost as good or better. Kemper would be a good example of that. Sounds more accurate (at least with regards to amp simulation/ modelling) imho just with much less configurability.

You should be able to get that tone using a single coil equipped guitar into a tweed Deluxe style amp. A hint of compression would help too ;)

@@LeonTodd thank you so very much for your opinion...I was continually hearing it in my head couldn't figure it out. The key is single coil...awesome boss:)

Axe-III Output comp is my go to, which is precisely what you mentioned :)

Of what? The FX3? You'd never experience it. It's as responsive as my tube amps.

Forgot to take my UV filter off. Derp