Righto you legends — in this video I’m breaking down ToneX Input Trim, aka the one setting that quietly wrecks your tone while you’re blaming everything else. If your ToneX is clipping, farting out, going thin, getting weirdly muddy, or doing that “dying fax machine” thing, chances are you’ve just got the input trim set wrong. I explain what the trim actually does, why it’s so easy to mess up (yep, I only properly clicked it recently), and how it ties directly into gain staging so your captures/models behave the way IK actually intended. Then I show you my dead-simple method to set it properly without overthinking it. It’s a quick visual check you can do in about 10 seconds, and it’ll stop you from melting your tone before you even hit the amp model. Once the trim is right, everything downstream makes more sense: your gain feels normal, your dynamics come back, and the ToneX stops sounding like it’s fighting you. If your ToneX tone sucks, this is probably why — and if it’s already good, this is the boring little tweak that makes it better.