pauliusmm
Fractal Fanatic
So you're saying double verb patch really should be clean for single coils? Am I the only one with single coils experiencing overdrive on double verb factory preset?
Almost all the Fenders are modeled on late '50s to mid '60s amps, which WILL overdrive fairly easily (just like the originals did), even with fairly hot single coils. These are NOT the late '60s and '70s Silverfaces that you can crank and still get crystal clarity with no dirt. The Super Reverb is based on a mod to make it overdrive more easily. Turn the input trim down to really clean these up.
The fenders amps settings in the factory presets are all (at least the ones I tried before deleting) a little squirrelly.
From your perspective, none of the presets are worth keeping resident in the Axe. If you want one, you can just load it.
From the other perspective, we'd like to keep all the presets in the Axe and add some of our own. Even if you go through them all and determine that you'd like to replace 30 of them, it means going in and picking out those 30 and then replacing them.
Me, I like all the plain ol' amp presets. I enjoy some of the other unique ones, but really just twirl the knob to an amp and then adjust as I feel like at the moment. I don't gig, I don't record much, so I don't have many of the issues/needs that many of you have. I do understand the perspective of wanting to keep all the presets though and then having blank ones added that would allow you to add something without losing anything. You could accomplish the same thing by removing half the presets and just having, say, one of the Banks be 64 presets and 63 blanks.
All reminds me of the line in Amadeus when the King tells Mozart that his piece has too many notes and Mozart replies "just tell me which notes to remove and I'll be happy to do it." Which presets should be removed? It's really a matter of taste at to what you like/use.
Remember the days when we had to use 3.5" disks to store files? Now we have a dvd or blu ray. The increase in storage space is incredible. Telling me that I should just load a preset if I want it is tantamount to telling me that I can only save 100 songs on my hard drive and I can just load any other songs I want from a backup cd/dvd if I want to listen to it. It's not a matter of being lazy, if the technology can allow it, it's not dumb to ask for it. Considering that we've dropped over $2k on the Axe, I believe you could probably add enough memory to the unit to allow enough space for more than enough presets/user patches and IRs, etc. without crossing the $100 thresh hold for cost. Memory is cheap today - it would all be a matter of if the technology in the Axe could utilize it (which is a totally different story).
Bottom line, just because you don't agree with the wish doesn't mean it's lacks merit. Some of the features you enjoy now exist because somebody wanted it to go to eleven
no disrespect intended, you are quite obviously much more involved/engaged and active with the Axe than I am.
Apparently you didn't fully read my posts. I have hundreds of the factory presets resident in my Axe. I use the first 50 or so from factory bank A based on different amps all the time for my starting points. I chose to use the first bank (A) on my II as my playground. It's just the way I laid things out for my workflow. The first 50 are my go to presets and the remaining 78 of bank A I use as placeholders for any cool presets I see from others users that I download. I chose to put factory preset bank A in bank B on my Axe. All 128 of them. As noted I use the Amp based first 50 a lot and when I tweak them to my liking they get saved in one of my first 50 slots in bank A. I went through factory banks B & C and took the ones I liked and loaded bank C with them. So I actually have 256 of the 384 factory presets "residing" on the Axe II. 
Honestly, this sounds like a form of OCD to me, and we can all have those for different reasons
