Okay, so, first off - don't take this overly serious as an attempted tone clone.
Tonight I received an email from a friend asking about a Bonamassa type tone, so I thought this would be a fun chance to ignore every other responsibility I have and just mess around with my Axe-Fx for a couple hours. The bummer, I didn't install FW18 before doing this, so, FW 17.00. I'll get there eventually.
So the guitar in this first clip is my Godin Icon 3 P90 with the pickup selector in the 2 position (bridge + middle), straight into the Axe-Fx II Mark II. The details are as follows.
The sound with P90's:
The amp settings:
In this patch that I just made up tonight, I use the Boost, Input Drive, and the Dynamic Presence ONLY to control the sound, and adapt to different guitars and/or pickups.
The cab IR setup:
These are V3 Mix Library IR's of the "412-GTR MAR-CB" FOUND HERE. If it's a little too percussive and you want it a little rounder, swap out the M-BB-55 for the M-PR25-75.
If the low mids are a little wooly for the mix, suck out a little 400 Hz:
That then sounds like this:
Did it again (though a few hours later in the wee hours of the morning) with an '85 Gibson Explorer with a 498T in the bridge, and flipped on the Boost and bumped the Dynamic Presence to goose it:
That sounds like this:
Then with the same 400 Hz mini-cut:
Anyway, you may think it sounds like crap, or nothing like Bonamassa (especially the humbucker one, that was just for grins), or that I need a helmet for not spending 5 minutes to install FW18, but I still had fun, so there. Hope this helps somebody out there.
Tonight I received an email from a friend asking about a Bonamassa type tone, so I thought this would be a fun chance to ignore every other responsibility I have and just mess around with my Axe-Fx for a couple hours. The bummer, I didn't install FW18 before doing this, so, FW 17.00. I'll get there eventually.
So the guitar in this first clip is my Godin Icon 3 P90 with the pickup selector in the 2 position (bridge + middle), straight into the Axe-Fx II Mark II. The details are as follows.
The sound with P90's:
The amp settings:
In this patch that I just made up tonight, I use the Boost, Input Drive, and the Dynamic Presence ONLY to control the sound, and adapt to different guitars and/or pickups.
The cab IR setup:
These are V3 Mix Library IR's of the "412-GTR MAR-CB" FOUND HERE. If it's a little too percussive and you want it a little rounder, swap out the M-BB-55 for the M-PR25-75.
If the low mids are a little wooly for the mix, suck out a little 400 Hz:
That then sounds like this:
Did it again (though a few hours later in the wee hours of the morning) with an '85 Gibson Explorer with a 498T in the bridge, and flipped on the Boost and bumped the Dynamic Presence to goose it:
That sounds like this:
Then with the same 400 Hz mini-cut:
Anyway, you may think it sounds like crap, or nothing like Bonamassa (especially the humbucker one, that was just for grins), or that I need a helmet for not spending 5 minutes to install FW18, but I still had fun, so there. Hope this helps somebody out there.
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