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    DL Whisky Show

    Hey everyone! There are a few tunes from Leppard's Whisky show up on YouTube now. This was back in May 2022. As usual, all guitars and bass are AxeFx 3 direct. This was a fun show! Here's a link to one of the tunes:
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    Did we forget to celebrate the 6-year anniversary of the Axe-Fx III in January?

    Wow! Didn't realize it had been 6 years since we heard it coming out of Petrucci's dressing room :)
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    Post Your Axe-Fx III Rigs Here!

    Here is our B-rig. Pretty much the same as the A and C rigs.
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    Ozzy cancels all tour forever

    I saw him in 1989 - the "Pre-Viking" Zakk era.
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    JZ's Brit Brown

    Oh man - didn't even notice that level! I typically run the output down around -10db but I guess I never checked it on this one - good catch!
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    It’s actually pretty easy to hear since we’re using in-ear monitors. Even the subtle changes are noticeable so I don’t usually get too crazy. As far as Viv and Phil’s tones, they’ve pretty much been tweaked independently. Viv tends to have a bit wetter sound, and his guitars and playing style...
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    So far I’m using the high cut in the preamp page of the cab block (usually 7500 - 8000k). Speaker drive around 2 and thump around 5. We’ll see how it works in the mix next month.
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    If I remember correctly it was a pair of studio monitors - Genelecs I believe.
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    A bit different - it's a little wetter compared to most of the other tunes, and I've been using a Dimension chorus for a lot of the other songs. We still experiment a lot, though, so it will probably keep evolving as the tour goes on.
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    Hey everyone! I was asked if I would share some effects settings from Phil's rig, so here are a couple of blocks. One is the chorus in Love Bites, and the other is our typical delay setting. I've been liking the tape delay sound - I usually set a 75% ratio between the two delays, cut some...
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    Hey! Sorry for the delay - just back home after tour prep. I have a setlist programmed in the RJM so I just recall different scenes in each song, then step to the next song and do the same. We used to use IA buttons to turn individual effects on and off, but since the 3 has 8 scenes available...
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    JZ's Brit Brown

    Hey everyone! I've been inspired by the GOT series and the discussions, so I'd like to start sharing some of my presets and getting more involved in this awesome Fractal community. I was playing around with the Brit Brown model the other day and found myself really liking the sounds I was...
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    While we were on the G3 tour in early 2018 John Petrucci had gotten an early Axe Fx 3. We were walking by his dressing room and heard it so we popped in to see it, and Phil loved it. I pulled up a Leppard setlist and he sat down and played bits and pieces of a bunch of Lep tunes. I remember...
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    When I started working for Phil, they were already programmed. I never had to dive in and do any programming on those JMPs. From what I remember, it was pretty much a rhythm preset and a lead preset. The AxeFx was just for effects at that point in time.
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    Gift of Tone #15 - PHIL COLLEN of DEF LEPPARD

    His JMP-1 units were stock (I think Viv's were modded). I actually didn't refer to those settings at all - I just went by ear. I pulled up a live recording that I would reference to make sure I was in the ballpark as I was tweaking.
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