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Recent content by hwplainview

AFIII It’s been a sad week

Sorry for your loss, what an awful tragedy. Very emotive sound and playing. I can hear some Mark Knopfler in there.
- hwplainview
- Post #4
- Jun 9, 2021
- Forum: Fractal Recordings
Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Tone Match

I believe this one was done on Q1 or 2 but could be wrong. I'm currently on 5.03 and have no intention of updating as everything is too embedded to change now. A lot of the older songs are probably done on pre-Quantum firmware but I can't be 100% sure sorry. Feel free to message if you have more...
- hwplainview
- Post #26
- Mar 9, 2018
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Tone Match
Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing"

Hey all - I've been absent for some time with illness and other BS but thought this was a preset people might find interesting - lots of people have been asking about this tone in various sub-forums. It's an odd tone for sure but I've basically followed the few bits of information out there...
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- Thread
- Mar 9, 2018
- dire straits marshall jtm 45 money for nothing
- Replies: 15
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Silverchair - Frogstomp/Freak Show

Very kind of you, thanks :)
- hwplainview
- Post #11
- Nov 29, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Silverchair - Frogstomp/Freak Show

Sorry for the late reply, I've only just seen this - this is the best I could come up with at short notice (I don't actually know the song sorry!) Hopefully gives you something to start with at least. My only advice is make sure the intro is played on a humbucker in neck position - chorus...
- hwplainview
- Post #7
- Nov 26, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Silverchair - Frogstomp/Freak Show

Silverchair haven't released an album since 2007 and I think he's just doing solo stuff now which basically sounds like terrible advert music to me - I would stay well clear! Amazing to think he wrote Frogstomp when he was 15 though - Neon Ballroom is probably my favourite album as it still had...
- hwplainview
- Post #5
- Oct 26, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Silverchair - Frogstomp/Freak Show

Given there seem to be a few similarly aged Axe FX users on here that probably had these albums as teenagers, I thought I would try doing some non-tone matched presets for these albums. Took a long time to get them right because the EQ profiles are pretty weird - you'll definitely have to adjust...
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- Thread
- Oct 25, 2017
- brit 800 freak show frog stomp silverchair splawn nitro
- Replies: 13
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
ISIS's "Panopticon" tone. Any tips?

Going off the end of that first song, I came up with this. Nothing special but it's somewhere to start. There's loads of very harsh upper mids which are quite hard to replicate-there may be some IRs out there which have that sound like a K100-V30 mix? It's probably going to take a while to find...
- hwplainview
- Post #3
- Oct 20, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Ah cool thanks man :) I'll see if there's anything else from that era I can work on.
- hwplainview
- Post #8
- Oct 18, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Thanks for all the kind words :) Btw, If you're a Pearl Jam fan I've just a TM preset for Alive up on the blog.
- hwplainview
- Post #6
- Oct 18, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Had a go at reworking an old preset I created when I first got my MKII AxeFX - it isn't 100% there but it's pretty close-I used pretty good stems for reference but trying to get through the wall of sound was pretty tough. Video: There are a few more recent presets/TMs on my site as well if...
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- Thread
- Oct 16, 2017
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
STP Plush tone

Feel free to use these as starting points for CORE - these are Tone Matches btw. https://axefxpresets.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/stone-temple-pilots-core.html Enjoy :)
- hwplainview
- Post #16
- Aug 14, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange
Deftones - Around The Fur Tone Match

I can't say I have no - I actually found a preset that is very close already so just use that. It's the M80 Bleed preset that Guitarjon did a while back - that one gets very close. Think it's just a Recto1 amp model - maybe try the intro to 'You've Seen The Butcher' to get a TM...
- hwplainview
- Post #11
- Jul 11, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Tone Match
Disturbed - "Down With The Sickness"

It is yes - there's no cab at all, it's just a TM block. I can never get a good sound from using a cab and a tone match block to be honest but some users can. Glad it's been useful! :)
- hwplainview
- Post #5
- Mar 28, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Tone Match
A Perfect Circle - Billy Howerdel's tone investigating

That's odd - I just tried it from a 3rd party PC and it seemed to download fine. I'm not the most technical person so I'm not sure why it would add a .txt file extension. I usually upload from my macbook - not sure if that might affect it somehow? I can try sending them direct to you?
- hwplainview
- Post #24
- Feb 24, 2017
- Forum: Axe-Fx II Preset Exchange