I like updated bank very much! Something really changed, spent two hours on Marshalls, happy! Thank you!! Wait for the next banks!
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What you are hearing is the compressor, set up as a 1176 style and more as a light-touch limiter over a compressor (like Andy Johns would have set up for recording guitars), that is placed after the cab block. You can turn it on/off (it is always Comp2 block) to compare. It will make the guitar a little punchier and slightly louder.
In this new firmware 14 update version, if you have an FC-12 or FC-6, it is ESSENTIAL to set up a foot switch to turn on/off Control Switch 2 (CS2), which is assigned to the Amp Boost. It will default OFF in most cases, but turning that ON really makes the Marshall-style amps come alive - they get juicy and fat!
Let's say you don't have a FC-12 or FC-6. Understand you cannot turn the CS2 switch on or off from the amp block in the editor -- it is attached to a modifier. This frustrates people. But you CAN change it from the editor. Here is how you can do it.
In Axe-Edit, go to CONTROLLERS, then pick the page that says CS by SCENE. This is a table of all 8 scenes by all six controllers, showing them to be ON or OFF. you can change the value of any control switch here, and if you save it, it stores in the preset that way.
Here is an example of what this CS by Scene looks like - I used a Mesa Boogie preset (JohnP Mark II C+* v14) so you could see that some of the CS controllers are set to ON and some OFF -- this is where you can change them using the editor.
In the above example, the FAT switch is engaged for Scenes 2, 5 and 7. I did all this manually. The Bright switch is OFF in Scenes 1 and 2. And the Lo Cut is on for all Scenes 3 to 8. If you click on the grid space where it says on/off, a box opens up, and you can select, On, Off, or last as choices (I don't use "last").
KEY:
CS2 = amp boost off/on
CS3 = fat off/on
CS4 = brite (by preset, it will REVERSE what ever the amp default is...if the amp defaults to bright on, it will turn it off, and vice versa
CS5 - saturation...this is like boost and can sound very cool, it sort of smears your sound a little. can be useful. It does not work for amps that default to saturation being on already (like some Camerons)
CS6 - Lo Cut. This is usually defaults to Off and can be turned on, but for some hi-gain amp[s it may default to ON and can be turned off for more bottom.
So if you find a sound -- say, Scene 3 of a preset for a Marshall Plexi, and want to engage CS2 "amp boost" but you do not have an FC12 or FC6 foot controller set up to do that, then you would just go to this CONTROLLER > CS per Scene page and change the Scene 3 CS2 column value from off to ON, and then save it.
Then, every time you open the preset, Scene 3's amp boost will default ON instead of OFF. I'll try to get a video out on this important subject in next few weeks. This stuff is part of what makes the magic happen in LiveGold, and now it can in Naked Amps too.
Enjoy!