After owning my Re802 for a little under two months, I've noticed a reoccurring issue when tracking guitars with my Ax-Fx. Below I've provided a clip of an Animals As Leaders song, that exemplifies the aforementioned issue with a single tracked guitar panned to the center. My setup consists of running the 802 via FireWire 800, set to internal, and my Ax-Fx II XL+ main input source/word clock set to AES, which is being synced through Mogami AES cables at 48khz. I'm using the front Mic/Line Input 9, a Mogami instrument cable, with the INST switch toggled within TotalMix. When tracking guitars, there is a high end metallic grating quality when performing open palm mutes, and then muting with the left hand. I pick on the more aggressive side for context. This results in a squealing that completely undermines my tracking process, and overall renders the likelihood of getting a considerably clean take impossible. My technique is solid to where this only occurs within my current signal flow. I've concluded three possibilities: tweeter squealing, a microphonic pickup interaction, or a faulty preamp. This occurs on all of my guitars, with differing pickup heights, and each with a different set of Bare Knuckle pickups. The amp settings on my patch in the clip below consist of the gain on the Fractal at a 1, and no additional gain from the 802, as that further exaggerates the harsh high end frequencies. The Fractal also has no clipping occurring on the input gain staging. The only processing within this clip is an EQ for the purpose of a high and low pass filter, and then a limiter on a separate bus, in order to present a commercial volume to showcase the issue with.
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