The controls you will actually use
The handful that account for nearly everything you will do, plus the gestures nothing on the chassis mentions.
04 · 6 min
Footswitches: none on the unit — an MFC-101 connects over a network cable. Learn how to store a preset before you learn anything else — the edited indicator does not prompt you.
Click anything
Every control on the Axe-Fx II, and what each press, hold and turn does.
Axe-Fx II · Front panel · schematic, drawn from Line 6’s panel diagram
VALUE knob
The large central encoder — presets from the recall screen, values everywhere else.
Store, or lose it
Changing anything lights an edited indicator. Change preset with that lit and your work is gone — there is no confirmation and no undo.
Press STORE. It is the same discipline every modeller needs and this one gives you the least warning.
Get into the habit on day one. Losing an afternoon's work to a preset change is a rite of passage nobody needs.
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