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  1. sheky

    AFIII Song using Ox Box for cabs

    I got into a real amp mood and bought a bunch of amp heads. It did not last and they are all gone except by Louis Electric KR12. I got the Ox Box for the load and for the cabs and found it really simple to use for picking a cab (it is a very flawed and buggy product though). So I was recording...
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    Tone Matching - What do you play and for how long?

    I am tone matching my amp head using a load box and Di (using the live mode). I don't know what to play. A few chords? Single notes? Palm muting? Is it more accurate the longer I play? I noticed that if I play for a long time, like 30 seconds or longer, the graph in the config tab flattens out...
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    Wish Louis Electric KR12 amp

    After hearing clips of this amp I've been trying to recreate it on the fractal for years. But I kinda stink at it so I gave up and bought the amp. To me it's the best sounding amp I've played through, very unique low end response. Has an adjustable NFB dial (besides presence). There's a tech...
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    Louis electric KR12 attempt

    I'm trying to replicate the tone of this amp, probably my all-time favorite amp demo. The Kr12 seems to be a Bassman 56f/Marshall hybrid so I took the brit 800, put the bassman tone stack in there, changed the tubes and have a classic lead 80 for the IR (mine is from the Celestion cab pack...
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    AFIII Getting clean (with no cabs)

    Main rhythm guitars are Suhr Modern with Nailbombs that I couldn't get to sound right until I turned off the cabs.
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    AFIII A song 50 years in the making...

    My dad is always writing songs, usually zany, but always creative. I heard him singing this a few years ago, I thought it was sweet. He says he probably came up with it around 1970. So one weekend when he was over, I set up a click track and a mic and had him sing it and now, finally got around...
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    AFIII Dual amps for mid-gain lead

    Always had a hard time dialing in this tone, sustaining mid-gain lead. I used 2 Fender amps and like the way it came out. The clean is the Princetone followed with an optical compressor which I've really been into.
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    AFIII Song with Princeton & Matchless amps

    ...And my son on vocals. I used the Hold feature on the delay on the outro to get this nice synth pad layer sound. Svt2 for bass.
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    AFIII The under-appreciated Princeton AA964 amp

    I haven't heard much about the AA964 amps but they sound great to me. Messing around with a tele, got this interesting almost african sound so I thought I'd make a song, but then realized how much work that is, so I just recorded a snippet, with some percussion and noodled with the matchless amp...
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    AFIII Semi-hollow and Vibroverb

    Short ambient thing.
  11. sheky

    Swart preset bug?

    Preset 62. When I turn up the output level in amp block, it also adds drive.
  12. sheky

    Swart space tone

    Attempt to duplicate the spacey swart tone clips I've heard. Stock nuclear-tone cab and tremolo in the amp block at 100%.
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    Rush - kid gloves delay

    Always loved the delay on the intro, so gave it a shot. Just a mono dot delay, but I think it's fairly accurate (the delay, not so much the tone).
  14. sheky

    58F1 clean

    Going for a tweed 3D thing, I think it's close. Tele middle pickup.
  15. sheky

    Fat rat feeding back

    Haven't used the fat rat in many firmwares. On 6.02 I tried popping it in and it's got crazy gain. Starts feeding back clean amps with the drive on 2. Am I doing something wrong?
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    How to get that percussive attack?

    I listened to this song for the first time in years. I like the percussive bouncy attack so I tried to dial it in. I think he was using a 50w Marshall into a 4x12 for this so I used the 50w plexi and the stock fractal ultra res 4x12 and my Yamaha 335 copy. Turned up the dynamic presence and...
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    USA HiFi clean

    I really like the USA clean, It has it's own thing going on and takes well to modulation. Was testing my new Fender Select Tele and came up with this HiFi sort of clean. I think the select compares very favorably with my custom shop Tele.
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    Ambient fx track

    Used a bunch of different mood-based ambient patches.
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    Does UltraRes lessen the need for stereo cabs?

    Just from the few days of fooling around with the 10 ultra res cabs that came with firmware 13, I am not finding the same drastic improvement when running stereo cabs. Anybody else notice this? I hope there's something to this, so much simpler building patches with one cab.
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    My Vibroverb addiction...and Axe fx Album

    Bit of an odd song, but nice showcase for the V-verb. Steven Schechter Songs | ReverbNation That link also has some other songs I've posted here that I've decided to compile into an album.
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    Fractal Hoedown!

    Being from Brooklyn, I'm not really sure what a hoedown is but in my mind it sounds something like this. Mostly Boutique for the cleans. Fas lead 1 for the solo and vibrolux for the gritty outro. Armadillo Vacation by sheky
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    PRS NF3 clean clip

    Testing my new (used) NF3, wrote this little noodle. I was looking for another strat that wasn't so stratty, and this guitar fills a nice niche between a single coil, a humbucker and a gear addiction. Used the Vibroverb Sim, switching between bridge and neck pickups. Deliverance by sheky
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    Bad Cat hot cat 30

    This is the first time Fractal's modeled an amp I owned and there's something really nice about it. It's like I get to keep it even though I sold it. Also in the back of my mind I always wondered how much the Fractaled amps sound like their real-world counterparts and it's all there with the...
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    DAW sample rate confusion

    I was under the impression if you wanted to either record dry signals via usb, or reamp dry signals later via usb to the AXE, your sample rate had to be at 48khz. I just recorded some tracks in Samplitude with the session set at 44.1khz and it recorded the dry signal over usb, and I can reamp...
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    Semi-hollow and the Supro

    I haven't heard a lot of semi-hollow clean posts around here, figured worth a post. The amp models in the last few updates have been incredible. Here's the Supro. Was asked to play at a family wedding and came up with this. Annie and Sam by sheky
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    Some goof just posted a jazz song on the Fractal Forum

    At least it's an attempt at jazz. I recorded a bouncy bass line, programmed shuffly drums and played lots of wrong notes but I'm still not sure this qualifies. Didn't help that I used a strat. Suggestions always welcome. Little Things by sheky
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    Line voltage is high...is it bad for the Axe Fx?

    Got a new Carvin ac120s power conditioner which displays the line voltage coming in to the house and I was a little shocked to see it ranges between 123-129. Right now it's 129 and that seems pretty high to me. I was wondering if this is dangerous for the Axe and if it effects it performance...
  28. sheky

    On bandpassing recorded guitars....

    I'm finding that sometimes guitars just won't sit in a mix unless I bandpass them (low pass and high pass). But is there ever a reason NOT to? Figure your typical cab response is 75-5khz so why would I need anything above that? Come to think of it, why does the cab block simulate so much...
  29. sheky

    Maz for in-between humbuckers

    Fooling around with this, figured I'd post the preset b/c I'm having a blast with it. Works with in-between pickup settings on humbuckers (at least for me). Flubby bass on the bridge or neck pickup.
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    The Versatile Vibroverb Amp...

    All guitars used the Vibroverb on this except the solo at the end which was 80% 6160 and 20% plexi. I've always found the Vibroverb a little thicker in the mids and takes drive pedals better than other clean amps. Dunno. Played a lot of weird percussion instruments b/c my program couldn't do...
  31. sheky

    DADFBD and the Bassman

    Playing around with open Minor tunings and stumbled across this. Googled it and got like 2 hits but it's pretty cool. Here are some DADFDB ideas. Strat and 59 bassman sim Seeking Dadfbd by sheky
  32. sheky

    Ode to a Plexi

    I can play through this sim all day and sometimes do. Ibanez Js1000 with just amp, cabs, a little verb, enhancer and some limiting for volume. For my father by sheky
  33. sheky

    Crackling noise when I play... [CLOSED]

    Like what is it? Here's the noise Only happens when I'm playing. - I hear it through the headphones too (so it's not my soundcard) - Happens no matter which guitar I use or patch. - I close Axe edit, still happens. - My patches aren't stressing the cpu - I reboot Axe and...
  34. sheky

    Where can I download firmware 2.0 ?

    Have the Axe II for a week. Was surprised at how good the presets sounded on my strat. Overdriven/distorted tones were tight and crunchy. Not used to that coming from the Ultra. Updated to 3.0 and now they seem a little harsh, fizzy and shrill. Did I update the new bank A correctly? I...
  35. sheky

    Can I use humbuster cables?

    Axe II is in transit ... I run the outputs of the AXE into a pair of Preamps before my FRFR. The preamps have both 1/4" and xlr inputs - both are balanced. Is the Humbuster thing only when running into an unbalanced amp? Thx,
  36. sheky

    The boutique amp

    For some reason the boutique sim worked pretty much on every clean and semi-dirty gtr track in this song. Not sure why, it never really worked for me before. I wrote this song daydreaming over a decade ago and its been bouncing around my head so it's a relief to get it recorded. The...
  37. sheky

    Revisiting pre Ultra mixes....

    Did this right b4 I got the Ultra using DI clean guitars and UAD Nigel for the lead (and my midi guitar for the piano's). I reamped the clean guitars - one guitar through the boutique, the other the Jt45. Everyone hates Nigel, but I've always found it worked for me so I just layered a reamped...
  38. sheky

    The Maz, the Plexi and the UDU

    Clean sounds are mostly maz, the leads are Plexi and it's always nice to break out the Udu drum and shakers. In the Queen's Shadow by sheky
  39. sheky

    Acoustic clip

    The idea was to avoid stereo micing - which I stink at and hate. I recorded this with one mic, and a DI. I ran both through Axe - the Miced version went through a tube pre and some EQ, and the DI got the tube pre and one of the mama bear IR's. I set the tonestack on the tube pre to Plexi for the...
  40. sheky

    Clean Strat + Maz + multiband compressor

    I used the multiband compressor for the top end (2400k and up) and find it helped with harsh top end I was struggling with. Then again, ever since My left ear went kaplooey a year ago I've been overly sensitive. comments and suggestions always welcome. Resolve by sheky EDIT: Due to...
  41. sheky

    Short song for April

    Just a repeated chord progression. Spent lots of time fiddling with boutique amps but I'm starting to realize I really like the Fender stuff. Mixing advice is always welcome. April Idea by sheky
  42. sheky

    Maz and some violins

    G&L Comanche through A Maz amp and some violins (mostly real). http://alonetone.com/sheky/tracks/dreams-of-a-middle-child
  43. sheky

    Racking the ultra - should I leave some space?

    Is it OK to rack something right on top of the ultra or should I leave a space for heat dissipation? My room doesn't get above 75 degrees or so. -rack newbie
  44. sheky

    Clean double verb noodle

    Does this sound a little stiff in the top end? You know how something sounds good when you're writing and recording, but then the next day you come back and...not so much? http://alonetone.com/sheky/tracks/another-noodle
  45. sheky

    FEB 2011 - The things we CAN and CANNOT do

    Don't get out much, so every once in a while I like to fact-check so as not to embarrass myself at social gatherings: THE THING WE CAN DO: - Space Travel - Instant audio/video communication across the globe - Sequence DNA - Harness the sun's energy to power our homes and cars THE...
  46. sheky

    Mizmor L'dovid

    Ancient traditional song, Brownface amp and Redwirez IR's. http://alonetone.com/sheky/tracks/mizmor-ldovid
  47. sheky

    First go at it with the crazy black box

    You know how you get your Axe Fx and you can't believe how easy it is to get all these amazing tones? Well that didn't happen for me, but after a few months of fighting (and perhaps cursing) I was able to write and record something Axe inspired - It's in process, needs editing, bass guitar...
  48. sheky

    What cable do I use for external EQ

    I'm trying to hook up my Portico 5033 to the effects loop. I was using TRS-->XLR cables and it wouldn't work at all (even though it worked fine with my Lexicon mpx500) until I swapped one of the cables for a TS-->XLR. I found this odd. It still sounds a little 'off' and I want to swap the other...
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