I've been watching a lot of Dead & Co this summer and Mayer's Deluxe Reverb setup has really sounded phenomenal with the rest of the band. It's scooped but the bottom end bounces and doesn't fart out. I set out to get a DR clean tone like that and have struck upon something most excellent.
Here's a quick clip of the Scene 1 clean sounds so you can get a sense of what I was going for:
I wanted something articulate. It needed to place nice with the neck, middle and bridge pickups on my Suhr. It needed to place nice with my 'bucker-equipped PRS Hollowbody. It needed to handle some overdrives well. And it had to stick out in the mix.
This has been refined over the past few months and I'm feeling good enough about it to share it now.
The key to success was mixing two speaker IRs. I used the factory 1x12 Deluxe Verb 57 A and @Gamedojo's JBL E130 SM57 C IR to get to the tone I was seeking. Equal amounts. Heaven.
The AMP block is setup very clean. And there's a bump in Bass, Mid and Treble to get it to poke and pop a little more.
There are five scenes defined that let you move through some special, multi-effect settings with a single stomp. The Mu-Tron is mmmm, very good. And everything is tuned for the Suhr right now. If you hit with a humbucker guitar you'll likely need to tune the response of the envelope by adjusting the Gain setting on the Envelope controller.
There's a kitchen sink's worth of other effects in there to make all more versatile. I tend to build my presets to last an entire night's worth of gigging. I prefer to move effects in and out around a core AMP-CAB tone than switch presets. Works for me, my style and the stuff my band plays.
You can get the preset here: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=6499
And you can get @Gamedojo's IR here: http://www.tylergrund.com/patches/JBL E130 SM57 C.syx
Here's a quick clip of the Scene 1 clean sounds so you can get a sense of what I was going for:
I wanted something articulate. It needed to place nice with the neck, middle and bridge pickups on my Suhr. It needed to place nice with my 'bucker-equipped PRS Hollowbody. It needed to handle some overdrives well. And it had to stick out in the mix.
This has been refined over the past few months and I'm feeling good enough about it to share it now.
The key to success was mixing two speaker IRs. I used the factory 1x12 Deluxe Verb 57 A and @Gamedojo's JBL E130 SM57 C IR to get to the tone I was seeking. Equal amounts. Heaven.
The AMP block is setup very clean. And there's a bump in Bass, Mid and Treble to get it to poke and pop a little more.
There are five scenes defined that let you move through some special, multi-effect settings with a single stomp. The Mu-Tron is mmmm, very good. And everything is tuned for the Suhr right now. If you hit with a humbucker guitar you'll likely need to tune the response of the envelope by adjusting the Gain setting on the Envelope controller.
There's a kitchen sink's worth of other effects in there to make all more versatile. I tend to build my presets to last an entire night's worth of gigging. I prefer to move effects in and out around a core AMP-CAB tone than switch presets. Works for me, my style and the stuff my band plays.
You can get the preset here: http://axechange.fractalaudio.com/detail.php?preset=6499
And you can get @Gamedojo's IR here: http://www.tylergrund.com/patches/JBL E130 SM57 C.syx
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