Hi all,
A couple of people have asked me to post presets of a couple of my new tones that I have been working on for the Plexi1 and JCM800. Although my presets are pretty simple I thought I'd try and add a little detail to surround them just on the off-chance that it helps someone out
I have attached 2 presets here both of which are very similar setups and the direct recordings to match. I mainly play a Les Paul Standard into my Axe and my live monitor is an FBT verve 12ma (a great cab IMHO)
Anyway here goes....
Plexi1
I heard Pete Thorn playing his new plexi over on Huge Racks and he said he had everything crank'd and this is my take on the crank's old school Marshall tone. For me the key to this tone is the crank'd master and the lowish gain setting which gives more power amp distortion. Tones controls are up at 8 which too me sounds about right. Presence is on -3 as I've never been a great fan of lots of presence, for the record on these type of amps I treat the presence knob as -10 = 0 and +10 = 10 on a normal amp, this is what I prefer. The only other setting in the amp block I remember changing is the Spkr Res Freq. I played around and for the IR used here I was feeling it worked best at 90hz but I have no idea if this is "right or wrong".
JCM800
This is my standard rock Marshall tone. I love my GNR etc.. so it's along those lines I guess.
Again the master is up fairly high at 7.5 to give a nice power amp breakup. I knocked the input gain down a little and again the presence is down at -3. The only other settings I changed are the low cut to remove some of the boom I was getting and the speaker res freq again set to 90hz which seems to work for me with the IR.
From here on the chain and concepts are pretty similar in all of my patches.
Cab is a straight up mono block with the Ownhammer M75 Scumback SM57 Pos 3 IR.
For these patches I went back to a room reverb setting I used to use a year or so ago. It's a md room verb with the mix at 20% and the verb level at -22db or so and the early level up at -8db. For me this seems to give the amp room to breath a little, helps it fit in the mix. I find it hard to put into words so give it a go both in and out of the chain, I like the effect but some might not.
Next in the chain is a filter which specifically removes a strange frequency around 700hz which was booming a little too much at loud volumes. If I was recording then I'd probably remove this and edit in my daw but I leave it in for live use and this is what these presets are primarily for. I use the filter as it allows for a Q of up to 10 for more surgical work.
The last filter I used to use was always a lowpass filter but I found that I was loosing too much air in my tone so I now use a shelf between 7000-8500hz and vary the cut on a per amp/cab basis in conjunction with the presence knob on the amp. The cut can be anywhere from -1db to -8db depending on the amp/cab combo in question. The highshelf works well for me as it allows the highs through but at a reduced level that is easier on the ears at loud volumes. I disabled it here and for recoding but for live use it is on by default.
Everything else is pretty straight forward but if I did miss anything then feel free to ask
Here are the new clips to go with the patches.
Plexi1
JCM800
Regards
Spence
A couple of people have asked me to post presets of a couple of my new tones that I have been working on for the Plexi1 and JCM800. Although my presets are pretty simple I thought I'd try and add a little detail to surround them just on the off-chance that it helps someone out
I have attached 2 presets here both of which are very similar setups and the direct recordings to match. I mainly play a Les Paul Standard into my Axe and my live monitor is an FBT verve 12ma (a great cab IMHO)
Anyway here goes....
Plexi1
I heard Pete Thorn playing his new plexi over on Huge Racks and he said he had everything crank'd and this is my take on the crank's old school Marshall tone. For me the key to this tone is the crank'd master and the lowish gain setting which gives more power amp distortion. Tones controls are up at 8 which too me sounds about right. Presence is on -3 as I've never been a great fan of lots of presence, for the record on these type of amps I treat the presence knob as -10 = 0 and +10 = 10 on a normal amp, this is what I prefer. The only other setting in the amp block I remember changing is the Spkr Res Freq. I played around and for the IR used here I was feeling it worked best at 90hz but I have no idea if this is "right or wrong".
JCM800
This is my standard rock Marshall tone. I love my GNR etc.. so it's along those lines I guess.
Again the master is up fairly high at 7.5 to give a nice power amp breakup. I knocked the input gain down a little and again the presence is down at -3. The only other settings I changed are the low cut to remove some of the boom I was getting and the speaker res freq again set to 90hz which seems to work for me with the IR.
From here on the chain and concepts are pretty similar in all of my patches.
Cab is a straight up mono block with the Ownhammer M75 Scumback SM57 Pos 3 IR.
For these patches I went back to a room reverb setting I used to use a year or so ago. It's a md room verb with the mix at 20% and the verb level at -22db or so and the early level up at -8db. For me this seems to give the amp room to breath a little, helps it fit in the mix. I find it hard to put into words so give it a go both in and out of the chain, I like the effect but some might not.
Next in the chain is a filter which specifically removes a strange frequency around 700hz which was booming a little too much at loud volumes. If I was recording then I'd probably remove this and edit in my daw but I leave it in for live use and this is what these presets are primarily for. I use the filter as it allows for a Q of up to 10 for more surgical work.
The last filter I used to use was always a lowpass filter but I found that I was loosing too much air in my tone so I now use a shelf between 7000-8500hz and vary the cut on a per amp/cab basis in conjunction with the presence knob on the amp. The cut can be anywhere from -1db to -8db depending on the amp/cab combo in question. The highshelf works well for me as it allows the highs through but at a reduced level that is easier on the ears at loud volumes. I disabled it here and for recoding but for live use it is on by default.
Everything else is pretty straight forward but if I did miss anything then feel free to ask
Here are the new clips to go with the patches.
Plexi1
JCM800
Regards
Spence
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