Bolt Thrower
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I used 7.0 and a simplified version of Merlin's "JC 120 LEAD.syx" patch from this thread: Tonematched my Roland JC 120 (Steve Rothery Marillion patch)
I made the following changes to Merlin's patch, in some cases enabling effects he'd added but bypassed:
But I'm ignorant about these amps. As a metal guitarist I don't have much experience with clean tones, so I found Merlin's patch. Sadly the tone matching didn't seem to give me a good result with my particular guitar, so I swapped out that block and started tweaking from there.
Here's the result through a Steinberger GR4 hardtail, middle pup only:
I have to say I'm amazed at how the AxeFX II's sound feels so realistic, even during such non-linear things like a sustained, wide vibrato. Such innovation in recreating schematics and integrating all the necessary parts, then we have the no-apologies, no-nonsense approach to software and product design and revisions. Truly, we're all just along for the ride.
First, thanks to Cliff and all the crew... it's worth every penny to have such a painless way to just plug in and dial really fun tones that mix well and don't fatigue the ear. What a great time to be alive.
Second, thanks to the community here at FAS forums. Because of you I was able to research the actual hardware I wanted to model and then get a running start on the tone itself! :mrgreen
I made the following changes to Merlin's patch, in some cases enabling effects he'd added but bypassed:
- replaced Tone Match block with stock JC120
- reduced gain on Rat Distortion to ~7
- enabled compressor
- added a tube screamer to front of the chain, drive at ~3
- enabled the enhancer
- enabled the multi-band comp and set its 2nd frequency to 3.2 KHz
- removed most of the bypassed effects blocks, in order to cut back on CPU usage
But I'm ignorant about these amps. As a metal guitarist I don't have much experience with clean tones, so I found Merlin's patch. Sadly the tone matching didn't seem to give me a good result with my particular guitar, so I swapped out that block and started tweaking from there.
Here's the result through a Steinberger GR4 hardtail, middle pup only:
I have to say I'm amazed at how the AxeFX II's sound feels so realistic, even during such non-linear things like a sustained, wide vibrato. Such innovation in recreating schematics and integrating all the necessary parts, then we have the no-apologies, no-nonsense approach to software and product design and revisions. Truly, we're all just along for the ride.
First, thanks to Cliff and all the crew... it's worth every penny to have such a painless way to just plug in and dial really fun tones that mix well and don't fatigue the ear. What a great time to be alive.
Second, thanks to the community here at FAS forums. Because of you I was able to research the actual hardware I wanted to model and then get a running start on the tone itself! :mrgreen
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