Andy Wood tones

[Ledvedder]

I've been watching a lot of Andy Wood videos lately where he discusses how he achieves his tones. Such great tones! He essentially plays through a Suhr SL68 set clean. Then he uses a compressor, a few different flavors of overdrive (Timmons AT, Wampler Pantheon, Gearbox). Then he has a beautiful sounding delay with the Keeley Halo.

I'm wondering if anyone uses their Fractal unit with a clean amp model, then various drives for their overdrive and lead flavors?

 

[Brian Coonan]

Andy also uses the VP4 and Axe-Fx III. If you subscribe to his Patreon, he sometimes shares his presets for free. Good dude, and excellent player.

 

[Cooper Carter]

https://forum.fractalaudio.com/threads/gift-of-tone-7-andy-wood.189635/
or
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https://www.fractalaudio.com/downlo...8p0/Axe-Fx-III-Factory-Preset-Banks-28p06.zip

 

[ocaptainjr2]

Andy also uses the VP4 and Axe-Fx III. If you subscribe to his Patreon, he sometimes shares his presets for free. Good dude, and excellent player.

You beat me to it. He just shared a few presets a week or so back. It's $5 well spent each month.

 

[unix-guy]

I'm wondering if anyone uses their Fractal unit with a clean amp model, then various drives for the

Pretty much the only way I've been using Fractal since 2013.

Works great for me.

 

[Ledvedder]

Pretty much the only way I've been using Fractal since 2013.

Works great for me.

What clean amp do you prefer?

 

[Ledvedder]

You beat me to it. He just shared a few presets a week or so back. It's $5 well spent each month.

I do subscribe to his Patreon. I feel like the presets that he shares are ones he builds during his livestreams. Like, he recently shared a preset from his No More Tears episode.

But not necessarily presets similar to his personal tones.

 

[unix-guy]

What clean amp do you prefer?

That changes over time.

Most recently I'm using the Dirty Shirley 1.

I like 59 Bassman Bright, Texas Star Clean, J35, etc.

The clean is usually bumped with the RCB although the new Photon might replace that.

My presets have 2 Drive blocks and I have various levels/types of gain on tap with those.

For lead tones I've started to use a different channel of the Amp block with slightly different settings but still mostly clean.

 

[Cooper Carter]

What clean amp do you prefer?

AC-20

 

[skolacki]

Pretty much the only way I've been using Fractal since 2013.

Works great for me.

I’ve been leaning in that direction. On the OG FM3 I usually won’t run 2 drives so no stacking. I’m in a lower gain situation and lately using the Supro set for a nice low breakup. It’s my ‘clean’ tone. Then I have 4 channels of drives I can switch through. I can stay on the one channel for everything.

 

[ocaptainjr2]

I do subscribe to his Patreon. I feel like the presets that he shares are ones he builds during his livestreams. Like, he recently shared a preset from his No More Tears episode.

But not necessarily presets similar to his personal tones.

Check out the ones from Sept 2024 - The post is New Fractal Presets to mess with. The comments make it seem like these are more geared towards his sound.

 

[jlynnb1]

I prefer the DC30 or Chieftain as cleanish amp with drive blocks.

 

[Ledvedder]

Check out the ones from Sept 2024 - The post is New Fractal Presets to mess with. The comments make it seem like these are more geared towards his sound.

Did he do videos/streams of these. I always enjoy watching the process of developing these presets.

 

[Ledvedder]

What amp model would be closest to the Suhr SL68?

 

[ocaptainjr2]

Did he do videos/streams of these. I always enjoy watching the process of developing these presets.

That I don't know.

What amp model would be closest to the Suhr SL68?

I believe its based on a Plexi. I think he runs its pretty clean as a pedal platform so you have a few options to use as a starting point. I've always wondered about the Wampler Gearbox he uses and how to replicate that in the Axe-Fx.

 

[WKSmith]

That I don't know.

I believe its based on a Plexi. I think he runs its pretty clean as a pedal platform so you have a few options to use as a starting point. I've always wondered about the Wampler Gearbox he uses and how to replicate that in the Axe-Fx.

He has used a Wampler pinnacle stacked with (I believe) a tumnus or belle in the past.

Didn't he also create some of the stock VP4 presets?

 

[Chewie5150]

That's something I've thought about a lot...using a cleaner platform and flavoring with drives. I always just go for the high gain amp models and dabble in EOB tones such as the recent Supro Magick. I need to spend more time on this approach as I hear amazing tones this way but am not getting the same result with my usual methods.