Hi Dariosicily,
I loaded your BE....it is VERY good, thank you !
Can you comment on your scenes, and what you are using the COMP, PEQ'sand Drives for? Is one your lead scene ?
Thank you from Toronto, CANADA.
Ciao Ted,
well actually as I mentioned here or in Instagram, the amp and cab blocks are almot untouched Austin Buddy's work, which once again are absolutely fantastic....
at the point that the rest of the preset has become pretty much my standard preset for almost all amps, with some tweaking of course... and then I just change the amp and cab and it's ready to go!
My concept with the AX8 is to have 9 presets with 9 different amps, which I pick up live basing on what song |'m gonna play.
Each preset steps like :
- comp - which rounds and pushes the amp from crunch to round and leading crunch -
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drives - I prefer timothy, tube screamer or Klon-like, cascaded to modulate the gain, trying to keep each drive's gain around 2, max 3 'cause - as in reality - when the final stage tube are saturated you can't push too much or you get mud
- amp and cab, using AB's "x" in scene 1 and "y" (more gain) in scene 2
- PEQ(1) is the solo booster, 5.3 dB when I play with another guitar or keyboard, 3.3 dB if I play with bass and drum only.
- PEQ(2) is something I added very recently, and it's key for me.... I realized that listening to myself in recordings, live and everywhere, all the presets needed a cut on 3.2 to 3.6 KHz...... without going crazy on each amp, I added this filter and tweaked a bit the gain and curves... and now that it is, refine the cut sometimes on some amps and listening back I try to fine tune again, but now I love what I ear.
- BucketBrigade delay
- Reverb (I like several types but keeping mix around 6 to 8%)
In some presets I add Tremolo, Classic Vibe, or a Wha.
I haven't had memory issues for a while.
I use the expression pedal almost only for volume swells, and wha.
As for the scenes, recently I use
-Scene1 --> Low gain, almost clean amp (x) with just reverb
-Scene2 --> cranked amp (y) with reverb
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scene 4 (pressing F2 and fsw 4 in all presets) I think in this preset is S3 with fsw? I'm not in front of the Ax8 sorry --> full steam ahead for solo: cranked amp (y) with drive on, boost PEQ on, delay on
On presets where I have spare fsw I set scene 1,2,4 with a fsw each, otherwise I sacrifice scene 1 (which I don't use much) and then scene4.
My solo PEQ is always fsw 4, and I always try to have fsw for comp, drive, delay to see whether they're on and turn on/off.
I've basically found that if I use too many scenes, if I change this with each amp, I end up not knowing how the hell each preset works, so I keep this template for all 9 presets.
I need a simple scheme to work, to concentrate on music. I hate getting lost with switches while I play.
I couldn't be happier with the result.