The low resonant frequencies for the 4x12 cabs I've done tend to be around 110hz-114hz but the amount of resonance is the biggest difference. For Cab Pack 8 it was way less than f.ex. Cab Pack 7. I can check the curves for you if you're intested.
Personally I just tweak the low res amount a lot and not the frequency. It has a lot to do with the feel and palm mutes etc.
Hi Mikko,
I gave your 5153 cab a try ! Your previous IRs were a bit too sharp / thin for my taste , so i sticked to my favourite TAF 4x12 Marshall cab.
This time i can say that you have a winner from my side
Here is a clean / mid gain little recording
Thanks guys , it is always a pleasure to play with the Fractal and its possibilities !
Nothing special happening in my patches actually , like to keep it as simple with very little tweaking.
Scene 1 is clean 5153 Blue by turning down the volume knob , scene 5 is the same with added BB drive and a little reverb and opening up the volume knob
I am playing through KRK6 monitors.
preset is added .
Thanks again !
Nice patch!
Have fun!So how are you guys liking the packs? Any clips or tests you could share?
So an "SV" 4x10 sounds like a "USA" 4x12 guitar cab? Do I even need to post a comparison clip? They sound completely different.Wow that's weird especially coming from Matt.
Personally I was surprised at how well Cab Pack 11 turned out. Truth be told when I first got the idea that we needed high quality bass IRs I was extremely sceptical if it was necessary since DI bass has become the industry standard. Boy was I positively surprised. I used to do the old trick where I have two bass tracks: one of them clean and the other dirty and blend them together. I definitely don't have to nowadays and the biggest strength of Cab Pack 11 is that you don't need gain to make the bass sound huge. You can use almost a clean sound and it will fill the mix and make is sound huge. It has literally cleared all my bass mixing problems and I'm using on all the bass tracks that I mix.
Here's an example:
Listen to how full that mix sounds and how everything disappears when I stop playing the bass. In the end of that clip you'll hear the bass sound separated and you'll notice it's nothing more than bass and that IR. No drive no nothing. Just a clean bass sound and no tricks needed.
Obviously it may not be the perfect thing for all use cases and I respect Matt a lot so I'm bummed if he didn't find it useful for his use. I will soon post a music video of my band where you'll once again hear these IRs killing it. I'm using Mix 08 most of the times nowadays which is all mics on the bottom right speaker.
I think I've gone as far as 4 separate bass tracks at some point because the bass player never changed strings. I had one track for the sub low, low mid, one for middle and one for treble. Compressed them all separately and automated the volume balance so there was more bass in the choruses etc.
I definitely want everyone to be happy after getting these packs.
They are definitely similar in EQ balance and if you don't have a lot of high end in your bass tone you might feel like the tone isn't changing all that much but it's one of those things you notice better in a mix maybe. Creating bass tones isn't at all the same as creating guitar tones. I don't think I used the subkick for any of those mixes by the way. I don't feel like you need it to get a full bass sound but the subkicks are great for if you want to blend f.ex. an SM57 with something that gives it more low end.
