Expect to turn the treble down on all the presets...
The treble is an issue for me with presets every time, also with shared patches. I don't know what guitars or cabs the rest of the world has, but with mine everything sounds thin. Might work in a mix, but I want that trouser flapping experience, so presets are basically useless for me.
Jan
Can't wait to hear Dizzy Herb ,Cliff will you put the mid cut parameter set to the 400 hz that they use on this model and add cln channel?
Same exact experience. I'm a strat bridge pickup player mostly and presets are always a bit too bright and thin so I avoid them. Wondering if this is because that tone works better in a mix? Or were the presets created with a darker guitar with hunbuckled?
Tech support doesn't work on Sundays. Someone will surely get back to you tomorrow.
+1Interesting; I've always thought just the opposite on previous releases (that the presets might have been constructed with a single-coil). The new presets sound distinctly more balanced with humbuckers (which 90% of my guitars use).
Your monitoring chain might also be a factor; I listen through Dynaudio BM6As (which have very good treble response, not necessarily hyped but very clear and detailed) and an Atomic CLR, and I've never felt the presets were overly trebly.
It's kind of strange that many are finding them thin sounding, because I always found the factory presets way too dark, muddy, and muffled and that's still the case with the new ones. For me this is all down to the cab block. If I replace the cab block with my own IR, in most cases the preset becomes instantly more usable. Interestingly I have yet to find a single useable factory or 3rd party IR. And that's the case no matter what guitar i'm using. In fact if I hadn't shot an IR of my cab, I would never have even bothered with going direct at all, and would still be mic'ing up my live cabinet. It's a personal preference thing I suppose, my ears aren't as good as they used to be!
I do like that the new factory presets are better balanced level-wise though. The new VU's must have had something to do with that.
Interesting; I've always thought just the opposite on previous releases (that the presets might have been constructed with a single-coil). The new presets sound distinctly more balanced with humbuckers (which 90% of my guitars use).
Your monitoring chain might also be a factor; I listen through Dynaudio BM6As (which have very good treble response, not necessarily hyped but very clear and detailed) and an Atomic CLR, and I've never felt the presets were overly trebly.
It's kind of strange that many are finding them thin sounding, because I always found the factory presets way too dark, muddy, and muffled and that's still the case with the new ones.