The "Secret" Triaxis Feature - Continuous Control Tutorial

[@RobertBakerGuitar]

*sees Triaxis* ...You have my attention.

[@SlinkyT82]

Yeah baby. 🤙

[@LeonTodd]

Only a matter of time until one finds you :D

[@Cactustone]

Haha! Not a "hidden" feature for those who read the manual :) Very interesting how infrequently this feature is explored. Simultaneous parameter changes, up or down, and by varying amounts is an amazing feature of the Triaxis!! Love this preamp to no end.

[@LeonTodd]

Exactly!!!

[@FedericoMK]

Thanks man, this was the final piece for my setup. Triaxis + Mesa 5 band eq + g major + Mesa 2:90 + fcb1010. After fixing the nasal sound of the dyn voice with the eq pedal, after removing the blanket effect by doing the presence trick, it now can scream or purr within the same preset. Awesome. Sounds so good and the mark 2c+ mode is pure gold.

[@LeonTodd]

I can't wait to try the Tri through my MK IV's loop so that I can get some of that 5 band GEQ magic.

[@josv.d.zanden2595]

I do still own my Triaxis. This was a lot of 'aha' moments: I remember how easy it was to use the midi functions. That is: once you know how to do it. Thanks for reminding; I am enjoying the Triaxis again, after a lot of modeling adventures. It turns out that I end up where I have started once. Asking myself why on earth I have ever left this machine (glad I have never sold it though😀).

[@Hellohehehe]

I use this feature a lot too, so good! A Triaxis, 2:90, G Force, ART X15, Mesa 4x12... And you can make everything! :) Great video, thanks!

[@mcbacau9315]

Leon! I f... love you! I wish it was you tube back in the 90'.

[@dan_perry]

MIDI was such a game changer back in the early 90's for me. Instead of tap dancing on several pedals I could hit one switch and go from one extreme to the next.

[@LeonTodd]

I feel you - when i got my first ADA/Intellifex rig it was INCREDIBLE to go from a clean sound with chorus to a lead with delay. Still is TBH.

[@dan_perry]

@@LeonTodd 👍

[@ivorycybernetics]

Great info..thanks

[@marchermans2318]

Hi Leon, what an awesome video man , so many thx for your Triaxis explanations. I thought I wouldn't use my Triaxis anymore because I didn't like the sound very much, but your video has changed that. What i like to add is, once i was on a site where they where shown to use a Boogie Five-Band Graphic Eq in the effect send an return. i bought one and it give you a little more boost. I also use the Boogie Five-Band Eq in the send and return of my Marshall JMP1 and its amazing how it specially works on the clean sounds. "something to try out." grts Marc

[@wayney.387]

That is some cool stuff I've been doing that for years with my triaxis and 90/90 power amp and if you have a effects unit, you can control all at the same time, it's so much fun and sounds great.

[@danthrax7407]

This is one of the thousands of things that I love you, Leon . as a Triaxis user, thanks for all your help

[@LeonTodd]

Happy to help! Like I said, hadn't seen it explained on here so figured I'd give it a crack.

[@ianfurqueron5850]

That's really cool. I have to admit, it's been over 25 years since I played with the MIDI programming on my MP-2 and other effects. Something to look forward to when I am able to start playing with the Ground Control switching system I bought a few years ago...

[@papalytic7767]

Great vid leon. One great thing worth mentioning about the triaxis is how well it takes pedals. Running into mine i have a wampler ego compressor set with a tad extra gain and sustain and treble, a spar mini boost for just a bit of clean boost of about 5db, an xotic ac+, which i set either side slightly different for a bit more tone shaping and clipping, even both sides on is phenomenal, then an xotic bb+, this one is for extreme gain. My preferred combo is the ego and the right side of the ac+. Followed by the left side of the ac+ into to spark mini. All options are incredibly versatile and in my opinion make the triaxis feel alot more like the heads each channel is respectively emulating. Zero loss of tone, clarity and note definition. One thing to bear in mind when boosting into the triaxis though is to tweak gain settings on the unit a tad. The continuous control function works great in this regard also. If you want to punch on one or more of the pedals you can set the continuous control to reduce gain and tweak eq also. The options are limitless. It would be great to see you do a triaxis/boost vid also bud. Keep up the great work.

[@LeonTodd]

I've always enjoyed the fact the Tri sounds so much like a head (when paired with a good power amp) as opposed to sounding "preampy" for use of a better term. That sounds like a fun idea!

[@papalytic7767]

@@LeonTodd hey Leon, i just tried something in front of my triaxis that blew my mind. Its the fender level set buffer. It has plus or minus 12db boost or cut and a plus or minus high frequency boost or cut. Honestly can say with both controls at max i doubt I'll ever need another pedal to go in front of the tri. It also has a load capacitance switch which enhances even further. You have to give it a raz. And for only $140 its well worth it.

[@seventhsealhere]

You had me at "...I've got the Triaxis..." 👍

[@irmasil3]

Such a cool feature. I am still a preset guy, as my MIDI controls lots more in the rack than the Triaxis only but if the setup is simple and emulates a "pedal" boost kinda platform with just a delay and chorus on the loop for example, this feature slays....

[@LeonTodd]

yeah that's how I see it - set up a preset and then have a midi cc toggle or exp pedal for "just a bit more" when you want it.

[@irmasil3]

@@LeonTodd Well...I am buying 2 expression pedals now :) Damn it!!! My 20U rack obviously misses this feature as well...Its funny how I have like 4-5 preamps in there, 2 power amps, a couple of switchers, pedals etc. and I use 1 tone 99% of the time :)

[@SlinkyT82]

My, GUY! Love all the stuff you share. Cheers bro!

[@Eventual420]

I haven’t noticed any switching lag or load time with these old MIDI preamps, they’re blink of an eye fast channel switchers. MIDI pedal boards have a spec they all adhered to, and follows the MIDI spec so CC# 4 & 11 for expression and the buttons were 70-79. Your AxeFX-III should be capable of sending MIDI to all 16 channels, so all your MIDI gear could be on its own channel and respond differently to each patch. The In/Out/Thru jacks allow you to chain them all together, and control it via one device. Expression control over preamp parameters is a nice feature, none of mine do it, but they load super fast so it’s usually a patch change, or switching between routes. Racks were badass. Pedalboards too.

[@LeonTodd]

The continuous control stuff for blending in time based effects is a really wonderful feature on devices that allow it. Your soundsculpture allows for a similar feature right?

[@stevenmgyori3826]

Well done LT! Thank you so much for All You Shared this past Year! Always informative and entertaining! A Very Happy New to Your Family and Viewers! Be Well All!

[@LeonTodd]

Happy new year!

[@RosaCruxTV]

Hi Leon, Have u test a Triaxis in a 4Cortex… ? The3axis in send/return in a Cortex only for effects and speakers simulation. The record quality looks amazing if you can take a look, it can be a nice video subject !

[@juliandelrio]

Amazing! Now I need a triaxis😄🔝

[@LeonTodd]

You should!

[@danielpirone8028]

Talk nerdy to me! For real- super helpful

[@shawnmartin9061]

I was wondering if you could do a video on send/receive sysex on the triaxis. I am using the roland um-one mk2 as the interface and midiox as the software. I cannot get it to dump. I follow the instructions from the manual and get the four flashes on the preset menu but nothing happens. When I try to load after pressing the shift load combo I still get nothing. Any help would be appreciated. Been all over the internet and it seems that you are one of the few who has the triaxis figured out. Thanks.

[@powerfunk6588]

Does anyone know if I can get some samples of the British Shred and Recto mod for the triaxis Lead 1 red? I'd like to be able to hear a direct comparison between the two.

[@markreichard2144]

Have you ever tried a Mesa Formula Pre? They seem to get trashed online, but I've run one along with a Rectifier Recording pre in stereo through a 50/50 into to Rectifier cabs for years and had good luck with the set up. Cheers and Happy New Year.

[@LeonTodd]

No but I want to - gear that's universally trashed is always something that intrigues me as i love trying to eke the best out of gear.

[@antoninowoodystella4607]

Suuuuper useful mate!

[@LeonTodd]

Glad it helped!

[@SeanAsheOfficial]

Woah!

[@LeonTodd]

It morphs!

[@lucasvelazquez2312]

Hello, how are you? you can use it directly for guitar recording? or you need to send the signal to an amp after the preamp? Thanks a lot.

[@LeonTodd]

It needs a power amp and cab sim if you're going to go DI

[@joshuasydnee]

Hi Leon great vid, can this be done with the Behringer 1010 controller?

[@LeonTodd]

If you can send midi CC's on it then you should be able to do it!

[@FedericoMK]

Yes you can, I'm doing with it

[@Turbo-D]

does this work on every version of the triaxis? i have something in mind that this is just working with the newer 2.0 ones same as with the ADA MP-1 2.0 vs 2.01 rom

[@LeonTodd]

Needs to be the 2.0 software, but I think that's most versions of the tri.

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Is Mesa actually still updating the firmware in these things... ?

[@LeonTodd]

I think they probably only did the one update and it probably just added this feature!

[@alexmilella]

You can even change all settings in the same time... I use this method to across from one tone to a different tone... like a morphing process... you will see all numbers changing ;)

[@LeonTodd]

It's magical watching all those numbers change :D

[@twelve_string]

It may seems tricky at first sight from the manual, but very well explained here.

[@LeonTodd]

I read the manual, went "ok I either have to read that again or find a vid" and there was no vid! Good excuse to fire the beast up.

[@michaeltoren]

Now you have me looking for a Triaxis again...

[@jakedibiase7404]

And this is why I'm glad I already own one. Prices on Reverb and eBay skyrocketing in 1, 2, and 3...

[@LeonTodd]

"This is the way"

[@kennbart]

Is that an old Ragdoll coffee can? I need to buy me some of that!!

[@LeonTodd]

It's actually a slap koozie!

[@dougdirt]

I miss my old Tri-Axis / 2: Ninety but I don't miss any of this. I'm so spoiled by my Axe FX III and Axe Edit I would never want to go back to setting up MIDI controllers this way again.

[@LeonTodd]

Yeah especially with Axe-Edit and the scenes functionality - magic!

[@Gohanndes1]

As always great video, thanks! Can you get your hands on a Marshall Silver Jubilee 2555x and demo it for us?

[@LeonTodd]

Oooooooh yes! been wanting to do that for a while, gotta find one here

[@798125]

Hey Leon, does the yellow mode on the Triaxis sound more like a C + or does the axe effects 3 C + model sound more like the real thing?

[@GEX-_-]

Triaxis V1 not phat mod not version 2. Channel lead 2 , yellow is c+.

[@LeonTodd]

The Tri doesn't have a graphic EQ (dyn voice is a bit different) so I imagine it's a little different.

[@nunoharris]

Hi . Whats the year of your preamp? Thanks

[@LeonTodd]

Pretty sure it's a TX4 non-phat mod board

[@NudnikShpilkus]

8:20 - theoretically, a control switch or scene MIDI could send those from an AxeFX3. Certainly my ancient Roland MIDI controller could handle the job, also....

[@LeonTodd]

Easy to forget that the III has some awesome midi capabilities.

[@lewisspear91]

please do one of these midi instructionals for the jmp1 and jfx

[@LeonTodd]

Anything in particular you'd like to see? I think the JMP-1 only accepts midi PC's so it's pretty straightforward.

[@lewisspear91]

@@LeonTodd hey man thanks for the reply, i'm new to rack gear and ive never used midi albeit relatively old technology now i guess however i was still pretty impressed at how you could control the triaxis like that. i just picked up a jmp1 and a jfx so ive been soaking up as much info as i can find on youtube and odd bits from google searches . it'd be cool if you could show how to control both the jmp and jfx together but i guess that info is already available on the net anyways. anyway man take it easy, i enjoy your videos (y)

[@BartekEVH]

What is model pedal exp? And footswitch?

[@LeonTodd]

Fractal EV-2 and Xsonic Airstep

[@BartekEVH]

@@LeonTodd thank you. :)

[@iganpparamarta8813]

Waiting for this to be available on Amplitube so I can afford it.

[@LeonTodd]

Mercuriall Reaxis gets pretty close to the Tri sound in a plugin!

[@iganpparamarta8813]

@@LeonTodd My amp collection in Amplitube would make Joe Bonamassa jealous. Happy New Year's Eve, Leon. Cheers from Bali, your neighbour.