I bought this pack especially for the bonus presets, but was just blown away by the whole thing. You nailed so many sounds that I had in my head and couldn't get from the unit myself. Please do more of these, especially the artist inspired presets. I could think of so many I'd love to see!
Thank you for the kudos! I may do some more artist inspired presets this fall. I have three specific Eric Johnson (current rig) ones I really like and am tweaking up.
BTW, if you guys like Steve Vai, check out the Carvin/Vai amp presets Scene 2 in the pack -- that's pretty much his lead tone on things like Love of God/close...
In the modern amps, I'm loving with the Suhr Badger models...my Scene 2 Badger 18 with a Klon-emulation drive pedal and a Tele bridge pickup is "one pissed-off" sounding amp!
I'd really enjoy making a smaller size TonePack of just vintage-y Marshall and Fender tones, and started one a while back but never finished it. While the 700+ Naked Amps TonePack has two scenes/examples of each amp, there are some amp models that you literally can get 8 or 10 useful and great sounds out of, using different gain, B/M/T, and drive pedals.
A '59 Bassman is like that, as is a good Marshall Plexi with multiple channels. Hiwatts are especially fun with pedals/play well with them.
I'm open to ideas for future presets packs, but I am bit reluctant to do artist presets, because the way they play, their guitars, pickups, strings, pedals, speakers etc. can have so much effect on the sound ...that a preset created and nailing an album tone dead-on, made here in my "Electric BuddyLand" studio with FRFRs and proper gain staging and leveling, still might disappoint someone playing through a power amp and cab hoping to use it in a live context. Those are very different things -- live use versus recording. I'd use more treble and sculpted mids in recording, and less bottom. For live, I'd push all the mids -- lower, upper, and "middle" mids more, but not too shrill on top/smooth that off more -- usually in the cab block by cutting off anything over 7-8K or so, sometimes lower if fizzy sounding.
My overall approach is to dial in each preset from an artist, with recorded reference, until the preset sound inspires ME...then leave a day or two then come back and see if it still inspires me -- then I know it's right and hopefully would inspire YOU!