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    Van Halen - Panama Tone Match

    Reverb, delay and tuning are a bit off (along with my crappy rendition overall), but it's probably the closest Van Halen patch I've made. Source track (try lowering the volume to compare):
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    Eric Johnson "Violin tone"

    This was my attempt:
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    EJ Tone update...

    Here's my attempt: http://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/eric-johnson-cliffs-of-dover-live-at-austin-city-limits-84-lead-preset.105720/#post-1265327
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    Paul Gilbert's "Get Out of My Yard" Tone

    Here's my newest preset: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=4152 It was tone matched using my SG standard with Bonamassa PAFs (soundcloud compressed the audio and is making it sound off): The original tone came off the GOoMY instructional DVD. Example:
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    Has Anyone Achieved This tone?

    Yes, I got reasonably close and it took me freakin' forever.
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    Joe Bonamassa Cranked Tweed Deluxe / Overrated Special Tone

    Yeah, this is the video that I based it on. I duplicated his settings on my production Overrated Special. The audio is pretty distorted here, so it was a bit of a guess as to how it all sounded in-room. Additionally, as far as I could gather, there is no Axe-Fx amp model for what Joe is using...
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    Joe Bonamassa Cranked Tweed Deluxe / Overrated Special Tone

    Here's my attempt at Joe Bonamassa's new Fender Tweed sound. I've also set up a drive preset that gets reasonably close to the Way Huge Overrated Special. Here's a video of me playing through an earlier version I made of this preset, along with that pedal: The preset...
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    Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover (Live at Austin City Limits '84) Lead Preset

    Haha, that's classic. I wish I could have been at that EJ show, but I was only 4 years old at the time. I'm from Houston, so I grew up seeing concerts at Cynthia Woods. That was where I saw Satriani, Rush, and Santana for the first time. Pretty incredible venue. My favorite Cliffs tone is...
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    Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover (Live at Austin City Limits '84) Lead Preset

    One of my long-running obsessions with the Axe-Fx has been trying to approximate Eric Johnson's lead tone. Eric's lead sound has changed pretty drastically over the years, but my favorite versions have always been the two Austin City Limits performances from the '80s...
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    Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover Tone Match

    Here's one I'll offer up -- my tone-match of the intro part to the studio version of Cliffs. You might need to adjust the gain because I have a Bare Knuckle Sinner installed in the bridge position of my Johnson Signature. You'll also need to get the Echoplex IR off the Axechange for the usercab...
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    Never get a good sound with Axe FX II

    The tone sounds better to me! A lot of times "lead" parts are just a single take though, whereas rhythm parts are more typically double-tracked for modern rock and metal music. As you said, the playing isn't perfectly synchronized, but that's something you get better at with practice...
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    Pushing Air vs Speaker Monitors

    I would go for larger / better nearfield studio monitors. Then you can get crazy loud if you want, but you can also listen to music on them, so they have more than one purpose. Also, it only takes like 85dB to damage your hearing. My 1x12 6505 combo is infinitely louder than that, even at "low"...
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    High gain users.. how do you achieve this sound?

    Try a 1.2K boost for the old Contortionist / After the Burial tone.
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    Never get a good sound with Axe FX II

    I'm no expert but I might be able to suggest some things to try / check on. Here's an example of one of my Axe-Fx metal sounds for a KSE cover I made in Logic X: https://soundcloud.com/instrumentalcase/ma-curse The parts aren't perfect as I was dealing with a lot of latency in my DAW. I only...
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    Axe-Fx II Firmware 19.00 Released

    Got FW19... my first thought was that it completely wrecked my favorite patches. Way more gainy or something. But the patches I've done from scratch within the new FW are better than ever, so I'm not sure that something went wrong with my install. I did the reset in the utility menu just in case...
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    Nick Johnston Tone Attempt...

    Nick has an unbelievable touch that's impossible for me to emulate, but for a long time I've been trying to approximate his sound using the Axe-Fx II XL... with very little luck. Finally, with a Friedman cab IR available and FW19 released, I've gotten closer than I could before. It's still...
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    Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover Tone Match

    You're right about the studio version having a lot of high end, which is not what people imagine when they think of EJ's tone. I actually think the original recorded tone on that song heard on its own really does not do EJ's famous sound justice. When I tried for EJ's tone with the Axe-Fx...
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    Blues Saraceno sound demo + patches

    I can't import the patches to my XL for some reason.
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    FW18 - JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound - "You Can't Break Me" Tone

    Tone Match using the Brit JM45 Jump model with Lg Wooden Hall reverb. He's playing a Gibson, I'm playing my new Guthrie Govan Charvel. https://soundcloud.com/instrumentalcase/you-cant-break-me-axe-fx-ii-xl-tone-match Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0gQFX5i9w
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    How close can we get to Andy Timmons tone?

    Here's my attempt at the Resolution tone on a strat neck pickup... https://soundcloud.com/instrumentalcase/at-resolution/s-rruch
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    Working on Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover live lead tone...

    It's been out for a few months actually. Rick did a great job on the tone, but he was copying the studio recording tone, which is pretty different from what I'm aiming for. The studio tone is way more treble-y to my ears. I actually went ahead and bought up every recording of Cliffs I could...
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    Working on Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover live lead tone...

    It's hard to literally recreate his signal chain in the Fractal. I don't think the Axe has any Marshall models from the right era. Then he does weird stuff, like running an echoplex unit before his tube driver. That doesn't seem to come out even close to sounding right on the Axe-Fx, plus I...
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    Working on Eric Johnson's Cliffs of Dover live lead tone...

    My new years resolution is to figure out how to play some of Cliffs of Dover, so I thought I'd try and work on the tone as well. This is my attempt at EJ's 1988 live lead sound: https://soundcloud.com/instrumentalcase/cliffs-of-dover-austin-city-limits-axe-fx-ii-tone-attempt-1 Just thought...
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    Axe-Fx II Firmware 15.05 Released

    Hi everyone, I got my first Axe FX II XL in May, and I hadn't updated the firmware until yesterday, with the release of 15.05. After updating, I loaded the Axe-Fx II XL Preset Banks A, B and C (for FW 15) that I saw on the support page. My questions is: do I still need to reset the amp block...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Not sure about the clipping, haven't been able to try since you wrote this. But the Layout - Out page is all set to 0 dB.
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Yes, 0 dB.
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Yeah, when it's set to line level input, the controller knob can't adjust it. I'm not getting any clipping anyway. I'm just confused as to why there's such a level difference between going out via USB and going out via XLR. I haven't messed with the Axe-FX II XL's default settings, beyond...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    The Mixer view is dedicated to the Apogee Duet's low latency mixer option. The level controls do nothing if the low latency mixer option is not enabled, and enabling it greatly degrades the sound quality to my ears. I think it's more of an option reserved for people needing to monitor...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Yes. Clicking on that through Logic X just brings up the regular Apogee Maestro 2 control panel (which is always already open). The Apogee control panel is also always an independent window from Logic X, but the Apogee hardware and software is designed specifically for working with Logic and...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Not sure I follow. Still a noob to a lot of this stuff. In that video, my guitar was peaking in Logic at -9.2 when using the Duet dual XLR input, -6.0 when using the Axe-FX's USB connection.
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    I can only adjust input gain within the Apogee Duet's Maestro software if the input setting is on Mic or Instrument. When set to line level, the gain control goes away. When I go into the OSX system preferences and click on the Input tab, it reads (for both the Duet and the Axe-FX): "The...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    It's set to +4, because that's what I remembered reading on an Axe-FX wiki I think.
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    I filmed a quick video in case it helps: The problem... - YouTube
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    I'm not sure I follow. You can't adjust the input level within the Apogee Duet software when the inputs are set to line level, as they are when I'm going out via XLR from the Axe-FX. My computer is a late-2009 iMac running the latest version of Logic X. The Apogee Duet iOs I think is basically...
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    It's all the way to the right.
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    Level difference between USB and Output 1?

    Hey everybody, I just got my first Axe-FX last week (an XL), and I've been using Output 1 with two XLR cables into my Apogee Duet (set to line level input). Today I tried the USB option because I wanted to tonematch something for the first time, and I noticed that my tone is much louder when...
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    Axe PC

    When is this coming out you think?
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    Will the Presonus Audiobox USB work?

    I'm looking into purchasing the Axe-FX Ultra, but I'll barely have enough to afford it without adding the extra cost of an expensive recording interface. I'm on a brand new iMac, and I have a Presonus Audiobox USB here, which I use to record my guitar mics... will this recording system work for...
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