Preset Name Meanings

tone pilgrim

tone pilgrim

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I've searched the forum and Wiki but still haven't found what I'm looking for. Is there a list somewhere that de-mystifies the veiled titles given to the Factory Presets? Some of the presets have been built with certain songs in mind while others were created for a particular sound but no particular song. Sometimes it's obvious to figure out like, well the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' patch for instance. Other times, not so obvious. Like 'Valentine Massacre' which I assume is a My Bloody Valentine patch ('Soon' perhaps?). Then there are others where I'm just not sure at all. Patches like 'Damage Nexus' and 'Cork Sniffers' and 'Ballet Slippers'- are those just cool patches or are they a pseudonym for a song that I don't even know exists? Is there a list somewhere for this?

I found this link to a list that GibsonLesPaul made but it's really screaming for another column that answers my questions I think.8)

http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-discussion/75470-patches-amps-revealed.html
 
Interesting question. I'm not in front of my Axe right now, but if I remember correctly, Cork Sniffers is a Dumble patch (or was it Dumble and a Trainwreck patch?)... and so "Cork Sniffers" is a reference to forumites being picky to the point of ridiculousness about the tone of Dumbles, and other boutique amps, just like wine snobs sniff corks and wax poetic about the unique characteristics of each wine, cork sniffers in the amp/guitar world do the same sort of thing. Think extreme boutique- and the snobbery that goes along with it.
 
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"Cork Sniffers" is a reference to forumites being picky to the point of ridiculousness about the tone of Dumbles, and other boutique amps
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I figured this, Adman, being guilty of being one of those cork sniffers myself I suppose (i.e. owning a Dumble clone). I just am never sure if there is some song the name is referencing that I don't know. Thus my question about a list.
 
I love the patch names. When I went through every factory patch (it took me 3 days), I paid attention to what it sounded like in conjunction with the name. I was able to figure out most of them, I think. I'd have to go through them all again to figure them out again.

Valentine Massacre is basically any B Horror film. It's the impending doom sound.

Damage Nexus I don't know off the top of my head without hearing it.

Some of them you can get just off the name, but most you need the sound WITH the name.

Hell's Glockenspiel's - AC/DC Hell's Bells
Djentlemanly - Reference to Djent in general
Machine gun - Jimmy Hendrix
Sweet Child - Sweet Child O' Mine
Jim and Leo - Founders of Marshall and Fender, respectively. The patch is a Marshall matched with a Fender
I'm Nationwide - ZZ Top song

There's not really one set method used for naming. You have to use the sound, the name, and your own knowledge to figure them out. Some are song names, some are describing the sound, some are what effects are in the patch, etc...
 
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Yeah, we'll all just have ta join in and decode the presets.

Here's on, came w/ my new Axe II with fw 12.2 = "Tasty Brown" is Walk by Foo Fighters (intro tone)
 
Awesome! This is what I was hoping this thread would turn into. If it helps, here are some of the patch titles that need decoding:

Hell's Glockenspiel's - Hell's Bells - AC/DC
Djentlemanly - Reference to Djent in general
Machine gun - Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Child - Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n Roses
Jim and Leo - Jim Marshall & Leo Fender. The patch is a Marshall matched with a Fender.
I'm Nationwide - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide - ZZ Top
Elegant Gypsy- Al Di Meola
So Many Roads
Blues Aroncino - Blues Saraceno
Galaxy Formation
Pentalizer
Orient Express
Black Hole
Detuned Descent
Enumerating Ravens - Counting Crows?
Introspection
Meet the Cytherians
Pong Chorus
Emerald Ocean
Intrigue (C Minor)
Crawling in the Dark - Crawling In The Dark - Hoobastank
Ultraverb
Phaser Paradise 2
Smokey Jazz
Ballet Slippers - Ballerina - Steve Vai
Velvet Sun
Lonely Heart Solo - Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
A Major Harmony
Screaming Meanie
Asian Documentary
Wind Chimes 2
Valentine Massacre
Poltergeist Pig
Organic
Bohemian Rhapsody - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Pitchmodtrem
Albert's Lead - Albert King? Albert Lee? Albert Collins? Fat Albert?
Centrifugue
Crystal Echos
The Wood Nymphs
Avant Garde Delay
MultiComp Plexi
Satan's Hollow - Arcade game from the 80's
regnalF esreveR - Reverse Flanger
Vertigo
Cavernous
Dream Sequence
Frenetica
Heavenly Echo
The Abyss
Rubber Biscuit
Watercolors
Event Horizon
Rainbow Splash
The Jupiter 2
Flangellation
Undulation
Serenity Now!
Haunting Echoes
Rockabilly Hot Rod
Ambient Swirl
6th Stone from Sun
Echoes from God
In a Funk
No Quarter - No Quarter- Led Zeppelin
Surf's Up
Flippin' The Switch
Ascension
Wandering Delays
Heavily Processed
Boutique Battle 1
Boutique Battle 2
Frogtown Irie
Nameless Streets - Where the Street Have No Name - U2
Rainy Nights
Bond… James Bond - Theme from James Bond -Henry Mancini
Zamfir?
Smokin' - Smokin'- Boston
Choral Canyon
Velvet Sun
Year of the City 2274
5 octaves of fun
Tape Distortion
Atmosphere
Dual Detune
Gamelan Night
Horror Movie
Echoplex
Funky Synth
Music Box
Desert Breeze
Flashback
Squashed
Lounge Lizards
By Your Command
The Planets
Glass Castles
Scintillating
Phenomena
Traffic Jam
Katie's Song
Bad - Bad - U2
Dripping Wet
Rush Hour
Get Down Syndrome
New Country
In a Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx
63 Tube Verb Box
Yngwie - Yngwie Malmsteen
Syncopated
Run Like Heck - Run Like Hell -Pink Floyd
Bass Ackwards
Stratosphere
Melancholia
BandTaps
Modern Eddie - Eddie Van Halen
PCM70 Hall
Mr. Gilmour Lead - Floyd
Soundtrack
Ganymede
Forty Miles
Freeway Jam
Beef Supreme
Vintage Spring
2290 Delay
A Clockwork Banana
Thor's Hammer + Saw
East Wes
Bayou Country
Prometheus WV
Ned Beatty
A Kind of Dream (C)
Spandex & Hairspray
Opposed Notches
Shiva on the Rocks
Walking on the Moon - Walking On The Moon - The Police
Stone in Love - Stone In Love - Journey
DreamVerb
Forlorn
Ambient Guitar
Eruption - Eruption - Van Halen
Mr. Floyd - Floyd
Man In The Box - In The Box - Alice In Chains
Broken Heart
Solar Eclipse
Capricorn 1
Underwater
Blitz II
The Final Frontier
Fifths in Space
Sea of Tranquility
Corbomite Maneuver
The Infield - Your Love - The Outfield
China Syndrome
Clock Tower
Tumbleweeds
W@rped Vinyl (ABCD)
Sultans - Sultans of Swing - Dire Straights
High Landrons
Lunar Eclipse
2290 Delay 2
FilteRing Funk
PopGate '88
Echo Deva
Cliffs of Dover - Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Modulation Mayhem
Damage Nexus
Gnome-Mans Land
Night Creatures
Farfegnugen
Diamonique Rain
Tasty Brown - Walk - Foo Fighters (intro tone)
 
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First, not all of the presets are named for songs. Some are just examples of specific effects. Such as "Echoplex" or "PCM70 Hall". But I'll give you the ones I know are named after particular songs or artists that haven't already been mentioned.

Elegant Gypsy - Al DiMeola
Blues Aroncino - Blues Saraceno (His general tone?)
Crawling In The Dark - Hoobastank
Smokin' -Boston
Bad - U2
In A Fixx - The Fixx (Presumably the song "One Thing Leads To Another"
Walking On The Moon - The Police
Stone In Love - Journey
The Infield - The Outfield (Presumably "Your Love")
 
Crystal Echos and Black Hole are describing algorithms/presets from various Eventide units. 2290 delay is an example of... a Lexicon 2290 delay. Like Jiffzillla was saying :) I think a lot of the names like "Ganymede", "Emerald Ocean" and "Galaxy Formation" are just meant to be evocative; the presets have to be named something.
 
Here are a few:

Frogtown Irie - Frog sound bassline for a reggae song I worked on
W@rped Vinyl (ABCD) - Wish You Were Here intro
Gnome-Mans Land - Your Echoes are 2x as fast as the original. Set the MTD to 100% wet for a treat.
Echo Deva - My daughter's name. Also a VST I worked on in 2005.
A Kind of Dream (C) - Created for the Synth-only mid section of "Hemishpheres"
PopGate '88 - Rev7 gated reverb
 
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tone pilgrim said:
Awesome! This is what I was hoping this thread would turn into. If it helps, here are some of the patch titles that need decoding:

Hell's Glockenspiel's - Hell's Bells - AC/DC
Djentlemanly - Reference to Djent in general
Machine gun - Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix
Sweet Child - Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n Roses
Jim and Leo - Jim Marshall & Leo Fender. The patch is a Marshall matched with a Fender.
I'm Nationwide - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide - ZZ Top
Elegant Gypsy- Al Di Meola
So Many Roads- The name of a Grateful Dead song
Blues Aroncino - Blues Saraceno
Galaxy Formation
Pentalizer
Orient Express-
Black Hole
Detuned Descent
Enumerating Ravens - Counting Crows?
Introspection
Meet the Cytherians
Pong Chorus
Emerald Ocean
Intrigue (C Minor)
Crawling in the Dark - Crawling In The Dark - Hoobastank
Ultraverb
Phaser Paradise 2
Smokey Jazz
Ballet Slippers - Ballerina - Steve Vai
Velvet Sun
Lonely Heart Solo - Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
A Major Harmony
Screaming Meanie
Asian Documentary
Wind Chimes 2
Valentine Massacre
Poltergeist Pig
Organic
Bohemian Rhapsody - Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Pitchmodtrem
Albert's Lead - Albert King? Albert Lee? Albert Collins? Fat Albert?
Centrifugue
Crystal Echos
The Wood Nymphs
Avant Garde Delay
MultiComp Plexi
Satan's Hollow - Arcade game from the 80's
regnalF esreveR - Reverse Flanger
Vertigo-
Cavernous
Dream Sequence
Frenetica
Heavenly Echo
The Abyss
Rubber Biscuit
Watercolors
Event Horizon
Rainbow Splash
The Jupiter 2
Flangellation
Undulation
Serenity Now!
Haunting Echoes
Rockabilly Hot Rod
Ambient Swirl
6th Stone from Sun--Jimi Hendrix song "Third Stone From the Sun"
Echoes from God
In a Funk
No Quarter - No Quarter- Led Zeppelin
Surf's Up
Flippin' The Switch
Ascension
Wandering Delays
Heavily Processed
Boutique Battle 1
Boutique Battle 2
Frogtown Irie
Nameless Streets - Where the Street Have No Name - U2
Rainy Nights
Bond… James Bond - Theme from James Bond -Henry Mancini
Zamfir?
Smokin' - Smokin'- Boston
Choral Canyon
Velvet Sun
Year of the City 2274
5 octaves of fun
Tape Distortion
Atmosphere
Dual Detune
Gamelan Night
Horror Movie
Echoplex
Funky Synth
Music Box
Desert Breeze
Flashback
Squashed
Lounge Lizards
By Your Command
The Planets
Glass Castles
Scintillating
Phenomena
Traffic Jam
Katie's Song
Bad - Bad - U2
Dripping Wet
Rush Hour--Rush?
Get Down Syndrome
New Country
In a Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx
63 Tube Verb Box
Yngwie - Yngwie Malmsteen
Syncopated
Run Like Heck - Run Like Hell -Pink Floyd
Bass Ackwards
Stratosphere
Melancholia
BandTaps
Modern Eddie - Eddie Van Halen
PCM70 Hall
Mr. Gilmour Lead - Floyd
Soundtrack
Ganymede
Forty Miles
Freeway Jam--Jeff Beck song "Freeway Jam"?
Beef Supreme
Vintage Spring
2290 Delay
A Clockwork Banana
Thor's Hammer + Saw
East Wes
Bayou Country--CCR "Born on the Bayou"
Prometheus WV
Ned Beatty
A Kind of Dream (C)
Spandex & Hairspray
Opposed Notches
Shiva on the Rocks
Walking on the Moon - Walking On The Moon - The Police
Stone in Love - Stone In Love - Journey
DreamVerb
Forlorn
Ambient Guitar
Eruption - Eruption - Van Halen
Mr. Floyd - Floyd
Man In The Box - In The Box - Alice In Chains
Broken Heart
Solar Eclipse
Capricorn 1
Underwater
Blitz II
The Final Frontier
Fifths in Space
Sea of Tranquility
Corbomite Maneuver
The Infield - Your Love - The Outfield
China Syndrome
Clock Tower
Tumbleweeds
W@rped Vinyl (ABCD)
Sultans - Sultans of Swing - Dire Straights
High Landrons
Lunar Eclipse
2290 Delay 2
FilteRing Funk
PopGate '88
Echo Deva
Cliffs of Dover - Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
Modulation Mayhem
Damage Nexus
Gnome-Mans Land
Night Creatures
Farfegnugen
Diamonique Rain
Tasty Brown - Walk - Foo Fighters (intro tone)
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Flashback, dream sequence, valentine massacre, and horror movie are all sound effects.

A Clockwork Banana is a sound effect from A Clockwork Orange.

IMO, all the space stuff just describes the sound. Black Hole, and Detuned descent both detune the repeats off the delays.

Pong Chorus is just a ping pong chorus.

Poltergeist Pig is a ghost pig sound effect.

Organic sounds like an organ.

The boutique battle 1 and 2, I think are just boutique amps in parallel if memory serves me correctly.
 
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