Alan Benjamin
Inspired
Greetings,
After two attempts at building some basic per-song presets on my new AX8 and not being so happy with the results, I ended up buying a new pair of Alto TS212s and decided to go back and start over once again. My first step was to revisit all the factory presets and narrow down a short list of those that might be best manipulated for my purposes and then built a basic library of about 12 single-sound presets that I'd like to use as the basis for programming what I need for playing my band's live set.
With the exception of two tunes, most of our repertoire requires at least one clean and one overdrive sound--and I've tweaked some very nice overdrive sounds I'd like to leverage--none of which use the same amps (or cabs most likely) as any of my clean sounds. With this mind, my original plan was to build new song-specific presets based on scene 1 having the first tone (normally clean) and scene 2 with the overdrive, starting by copying the more complex reference preset I've built and then manually copying all the components of the other sound I want into the other X/Y slots of corresponding blocks and bypassing what's not needed in either scene. My thought process here is that the scene switching should be faster than relying solely on switching between single-sound presets.
In the process of auditioning some of the sounds, though, I noticed that preset-switching performed just about as quickly as I'll need (even though there are a lot of fairly quick changes--often back and forth several times in the same tune). Additionally, there are some tunes were I really need three distinct tones that I doubt I'll be able to program into the same pair of amps/cabs.
With this in mind, I'm wondering if anyone has advice as to the practicality of sticking mainly with preset switching as opposed to trying to consolidate pairs of sounds together in single presets using scene switching. Also, for the latter, is there any better way to "consolidate" the sounds from two different source presets into a single two-scene preset than the method I mentioned above? Any guidance in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot and take care,
Alan
P.S. The new tones are really sounding great already!
After two attempts at building some basic per-song presets on my new AX8 and not being so happy with the results, I ended up buying a new pair of Alto TS212s and decided to go back and start over once again. My first step was to revisit all the factory presets and narrow down a short list of those that might be best manipulated for my purposes and then built a basic library of about 12 single-sound presets that I'd like to use as the basis for programming what I need for playing my band's live set.
With the exception of two tunes, most of our repertoire requires at least one clean and one overdrive sound--and I've tweaked some very nice overdrive sounds I'd like to leverage--none of which use the same amps (or cabs most likely) as any of my clean sounds. With this mind, my original plan was to build new song-specific presets based on scene 1 having the first tone (normally clean) and scene 2 with the overdrive, starting by copying the more complex reference preset I've built and then manually copying all the components of the other sound I want into the other X/Y slots of corresponding blocks and bypassing what's not needed in either scene. My thought process here is that the scene switching should be faster than relying solely on switching between single-sound presets.
In the process of auditioning some of the sounds, though, I noticed that preset-switching performed just about as quickly as I'll need (even though there are a lot of fairly quick changes--often back and forth several times in the same tune). Additionally, there are some tunes were I really need three distinct tones that I doubt I'll be able to program into the same pair of amps/cabs.
With this in mind, I'm wondering if anyone has advice as to the practicality of sticking mainly with preset switching as opposed to trying to consolidate pairs of sounds together in single presets using scene switching. Also, for the latter, is there any better way to "consolidate" the sounds from two different source presets into a single two-scene preset than the method I mentioned above? Any guidance in this regard would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot and take care,
Alan
P.S. The new tones are really sounding great already!