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Rig setup

Pick what you're plugging into. You get the cabling, what the cab block should be doing, and the thing that goes wrong.

Get this one right first

The cab block rule

Cab block ON into anything full-range — headphones, an FRFR speaker, the desk, your computer. Cab block OFF into anything that ends in a real guitar speaker. A cab block is a speaker simulation, so using one into a real cab stacks two speakers, and leaving it off into a full-range system gives you a raw amp with no speaker at all.

Axe-Fx III Owner's Manual

Input 1 is the instrument input and carries Fractal's “Secret Sauce” circuitry, tuned for guitar and bass pickups. The other inputs are line level and will take a guitar, but without that front end. Plug the guitar into Input 1.

What are you plugging into?
Cab sim

Leave it on

You're feeding a full-range system, so the Nano has to supply the speaker.

What the front panel is designed for.

Driven from the front panel and Axe-Edit, straight into monitors.

Hook it up
  1. GuitarINPUT 1
  2. OUTPUT 1 XLR L+RMonitors or interface
  3. USBComputer
Set it up
Cab block
On
Editing
Axe-Edit III over USB is far faster than the panel