How to Connect Tonex One with AXE I/O one interface

[fingersmcginty]

Hello, I received the tonex one the other day and I'm trying to figure out how I connect The tonex one to my axe I/O one interface. Is it guitar to tonex one and then output of tonex one to axe I/O one guitar input? This is the way i have it connected and it doesn't sound good at all. Please help.

[Peter_IK]

That would be the way to use TONEX ONE directly into an audio interface. But you wouldn't plug it into the guitar input unless you turned Z-TONE off because that is for a guitar directly connected to input 1 on AXE I/O.

However, since you have an AXE I/O, an easier solution would be to use plug your guitar into input 1 (and you can use the Z-TONE controls for this if you wish) and running the TONEX software on your computer. You'd be using the same Tone Models/presets without one more piece of gear in the chain to complicate things.

[fingersmcginty]

That would be the way to use TONEX ONE directly into an audio interface. But you wouldn't plug it into the guitar input unless you turned Z-TONE off because that is for a guitar directly connected to input 1 on AXE I/O.

However, since you have an AXE I/O, an easier solution would be to use plug your guitar into input 1 (and you can use the Z-TONE controls for this if you wish) and running the TONEX software on your computer. You'd be using the same Tone Models/presets without one more piece of gear in the chain to complicate things.

Thanks .... that makes sense

[robertvandijk]

Hi @Peter_IK,

I own a Tonex Pedal and a AXE I/O interface. What would be the ideal way to connect the Tonex Pedal to the recording interface? Is that via the (mono) output of the Tonex Pedal directly into one of the inputs of the AXE I/O?

Currently I am using the mono output of the Tonex Pedal as input to a Palmer passive DI box and the output of that DI box via (balanced out) XLR into the AXE I/O. I notice that I need to crank up the input gain on the AXE I/O quite significantly to get a usable volume out of Tonex Pedal (where I also had to increase the preset volume). FYI - the headphone output on the Tonex Pedal then distorts a little and I need to decrease the volume on that when using it via headphone only.

Any advise, guidance and suggestions are much appreciated.

I really love the quality of the IK products and would like to optimize my settings to make them more usable.

Thanks!