Axe-Fx III Firmware 27.00 Public Beta #2

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My name is mud said:
Personally it was more a joke about what Cliff said, it was fun to use the Dick marzio and the 1.5 pick. But for the rest you were right: I will never play with this amp by choice 😀. It sound like a fuzz yep. The others audios are « out » cause the joke was to play with a di marzio and a thick pick
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Yup, I remember real one can sound fuzzylike if pushed. The segret with real TW was to push the poweramp at high (and I mean HIGH) level, and control distortion and tone with volume and touch. Good clean, interesting overdrive, and fuzzy lead (in a good way) without touching any amp control.
 
LiamH said:
What guitar/pickups was that with @aens?
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Neck: Custom made Rautia T-Top replica (output 7,5k humbucker, 3,89k splitted)
Bridge: 80’s Gibson Dirty Fingers (output around 15k)

LiamH said:
[Just had a quick play around with this. Funny actually @aens, when I AB'd your favoured settings against mine. Despite being quite different, they are essentially different ways of skinning the same cat. We seem to play off the Presence, Treble, Master and Gain controls differently, but because those controls all interact in the overall frequency response, the tonal balance is pretty similar. The overall character is quite different though, esecially in the mids. So as well as stealing some of your dynamics settings, I'm going to set my main presets with my own solution (but with your dynamics improvements) on Channel A, and your solution on Channel B. Even funnier, I feel no need to break out my own JMP 2203 to confirm your findings. It is to all intents and purposes a 2203, and has been for a while now!]
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You are very welcome! I’ve used very similar settings like you just posted for quite a while, but after A-B’ing my 2203 that I’m forced to keep the master volume down I really prefer the settings I just posted. At least for now.

2203 is indeed a wonderful amp, and I really like how the high treble setting compresses the upper mids instead of making your sound ice-picky. Amp modelers have been doing that for so long I’ve grown not to crank up the treble with more modern Marshalls. Definitely not the case with the newest firmware anymore.
 
aens said:
At least the 2203 sounds almost indistinguishable compared to my real 2203. I use the guitar volume all the time and it’s still spot on.

In case you want to try out ”my 2203”:
2203 High
Input Trim 1.2
Bass 7
Speaker Thump 4
Power Tube Bias 60%
Power Tube Type JJ EL34
Speaker Impedance 1.08
Speaker Drive 1.7

Middle 6
Treble 8
Presence 1.5
Master 2.5 (I have to set mine low atm to match my real amp because of recent power tube/fuse failure)
Gain 5-7

Boost the amp with TS808 to have even more dynamic range (drive 0, tone 5-8, volume 5-7).
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Just saved this to my blocks library, sounds great!
 
When you add a Klone to the Wrecker Liver Pool

With all my respects to Jim and to Gary, I find this much more enjoyable to play than a Marshall. It reproduces so many playing nuances! Sweet on the mids, harmonics jumping like mushrooms, and less harsh high frequencies. Addictive! 😛 Even when your playing skills are lame 😄
 
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Piing said:
When you add a Klone to the Wrecker Liver Pool

With all my respects to Jim and to Gary, I find this much more enjoyable to play than a Marshall. It reproduces so many playing nuances! Sweet on the mids, harmonics jumping like mushrooms, and less harsh high frequencies. Addictive! 😛 Even when your playing skills are lame 😄
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Clean tone - it is axe-fx? Please, share this clean preset
 
Piing said:
When you add a Klone to the Wrecker Liver Pool

With all my respects to Jim and to Gary, I find this much more enjoyable to play than a Marshall. It reproduces so many playing nuances! Sweet on the mids, harmonics jumping like mushrooms, and less harsh high frequencies. Addictive! 😛 Even when your playing skills are lame 😄
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Ken Fischer was positively brilliant, designed absolutely great amps, and collaborated well with Mike Zaite.
 
Piing said:
When you add a Klone to the Wrecker Liver Pool

With all my respects to Jim and to Gary, I find this much more enjoyable to play than a Marshall. It reproduces so many playing nuances! Sweet on the mids, harmonics jumping like mushrooms, and less harsh high frequencies. Addictive! 😛 Even when your playing skills are lame 😄
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Btw, nice. Soulful trumps shred any day of the week, except for Mondays.
 
Piing said:
When you add a Klone to the Wrecker Liver Pool

With all my respects to Jim and to Gary, I find this much more enjoyable to play than a Marshall. It reproduces so many playing nuances! Sweet on the mids, harmonics jumping like mushrooms, and less harsh high frequencies. Addictive! 😛 Even when your playing skills are lame 😄
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I hear a tinge of John Mayer in that tone...love it.
 
I found that it's actually harder to get a good sound out of this firmware because some amps behave in a "nastier" way if you don't set them up right just like the real ones. Feels significantly more realistic to me in a way that I wasn't used to anymore but it's bringing back memories of long afternoons spent nudging the pots on my Mark V to get it to sound good (if you owned one you know what I'm talking about).
 
luckymethod said:
I found that it's actually harder to get a good sound out of this firmware because some amps behave in a "nastier" way if you don't set them up right just like the real ones. Feels significantly more realistic to me in a way that I wasn't used to anymore but it's bringing back memories of long afternoons spent nudging the pots on my Mark V to get it to sound good (if you owned one you know what I'm talking about).
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Did Cliff perhaps measure the potentiometers of the amps 1:1 and now simulate them correctly (preamp) or did he already do it in past but the algorithm had an issue to simulate it correctly?
 
luckymethod said:
I found that it's actually harder to get a good sound out of this firmware because some amps behave in a "nastier" way if you don't set them up right just like the real ones. Feels significantly more realistic to me in a way that I wasn't used to anymore but it's bringing back memories of long afternoons spent nudging the pots on my Mark V to get it to sound good (if you owned one you know what I'm talking about).
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In my opinion,
If you have a hard time dialing a real amp, is that you have the wrong amp in front of you. Talking about the mark 5 for example, they sell it as the « ultimate metal amp » back in the day, I ordered one in the shop and was disappointed with the tone : The clean sucked, and the dist isn’t heavy (as you believed before trying it). F##### by marketing so.

When you found the amp that fit well with your tastes, you plug yourself, does a light eq tweak and that’s it . You quite never tweak again your head .
When I plug myself in my jp2c, I have instantly a good tone without pulling my hair
 
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