Axe-Fx II · Reference · Axe-Fx II · Ares

Look it up fast

Tables, diagrams and fixes. Built to be opened mid-session with a guitar still on, not read front to back.

The hardware

Controls

Every front-panel control on an interactive diagram, including the X and Y buttons that define this generation.

Every jack on an interactive rear panel, plus the front jack that needs a menu setting to work.

The numbers that answer a question, and what differs between the original, Mark II, XL and XL+.

Sound

Eight scenes and two variants per block — and why everything written about channels describes a different device.

Every model Fractal themselves describe — and an honest account of the ones they don't.

Using it

Studio, live with an MFC-101, into a real amp, or matching a reference tone.

Straight answers to the things people actually ask.

Symptom, cause, fix — including what is documented behaviour rather than a fault.

Scene, X/Y, Tone Match, Humbuster, FASLINK, Ares, Cygnus.