Hi folks,
I'm writing to ask for some help with the XLR6 Phantom Power setup for the Axe III, since I've been having some challenges getting it working. Fractal has already shipped me a second phantom power box and I bought a second cable but it's still off, so I'm thinking either (a) something more insidious is wrong like an issue with the GT22 itself, or (b) I'm just an idiot somehow, and I'd love to have your help debugging the latter possibility.
Context:
I'm writing to ask for some help with the XLR6 Phantom Power setup for the Axe III, since I've been having some challenges getting it working. Fractal has already shipped me a second phantom power box and I bought a second cable but it's still off, so I'm thinking either (a) something more insidious is wrong like an issue with the GT22 itself, or (b) I'm just an idiot somehow, and I'd love to have your help debugging the latter possibility.
Context:
- I can get bidirectional MIDI working successfully when using two five pin cables into the MMGT and powering the MMGT directly. Tuner works, patches/scenes change, etc. etc. This suggests to me that something is wrong in XLR6 connection.
- If I unplug those same MIDI cables from the MMGT, and the same power, and plug them into the phantom power box, and then plug the phantom power box to the MMGT via the XLR6 cable, the MMGT powers on but has no MIDI communication either way. I've verified I'm not just plugging the MIDI cables in wrong, and they're never even leaving the Axe III.
- Everything is on the very latest firmware, updated last night, but I was having the same problems before the last gen of Axe/MMGT firmware too.
- MIDI channel is 1, Axe FX is set with program change ON and SysEx ON.
- MMGT has Axe on Channel 1, bidirectional MIDI set to ON, MIDI Receive channel 1, everything else off. The Axe is set up to use MIDI Port "MIDI Out", Send PCs is ON, Ignore Incoming PC/CC are on (because I'd rather the MMGT *not* follow AXE-Edit or the like), Send CCs on Preset Change and Poll State are ON.
- This is possible paranoia, but the male 6-pin connector on the MMGT itself is a little "loose" - not much, but the pins do wiggle a teeny bit when I touch them, if that's relevant at all.