Keith White
Experienced
Billy Squier Lonely Is The Night solo using Austin Buddy Trainwreck Live preset scene 4
@austinbuddy I pre-purchased the AxeFx III version of these when you originally put the FM3 up for sale but I'm just now getting around to exploring them... I think this is gonna take a while... I was stuck in the Marshall Pre-Amps for a couple of hours. SO MANY GOOD TONES right out the gate. I've been on a personal project of organizing/tagging all of my presets. I worked through some pretty big collections including your Naked Amps pack. When a preset or a scene within a preset is the best of the best I tag it with "Coveted" and many of yours get this stamped on them. Thanks for all the hard work and amazing tones. Saves me so much time and inspiring to my playing.
I'll happily share my tag database with you if you decide to download it... I've got it loaded up with a ton of stuff... most of the amp models (real and the FAS Names) effect names, etc. The free version is really usable but I paid for the full version as it unlocks the advanced searching and a few other features I like/need. I have a whole process I've put together for organizing my presets and now I can locate stuff really quickly. I dream of the day when AxeEdit also functions as a preset library so we can have a centralized place to store/tag/transfer.Good Idea on tagging presets. Looks pretty useful. I'm going to have to check out that TagSpaces Software!
@ectoplasm88 Thanks so much man! It makes me so happy to hear how people love these tones.@austinbuddy I pre-purchased the AxeFx III version of these when you originally put the FM3 up for sale but I'm just now getting around to exploring them... I think this is gonna take a while... I was stuck in the Marshall Pre-Amps for a couple of hours. SO MANY GOOD TONES right out the gate. I've been on a personal project of organizing/tagging all of my presets. I worked through some pretty big collections including your Naked Amps pack. When a preset or a scene within a preset is the best of the best I tag it with "Coveted" and many of yours get this stamped on them. Thanks for all the hard work and amazing tones. Saves me so much time and inspiring to my playing.
That program looks supper cool. I have always wanted something like this, especially for BLOCKS, not just Presets. Cool!I'll happily share my tag database with you if you decide to download it... I've got it loaded up with a ton of stuff... most of the amp models (real and the FAS Names) effect names, etc. The free version is really usable but I paid for the full version as it unlocks the advanced searching and a few other features I like/need. I have a whole process I've put together for organizing my presets and now I can locate stuff really quickly. I dream of the day when AxeEdit also functions as a preset library so we can have a centralized place to store/tag/transfer.
I'd like to check out your tag database to checkout with the tag space demo if possible. Thanks!I'll happily share my tag database with you if you decide to download it... I've got it loaded up with a ton of stuff... most of the amp models (real and the FAS Names) effect names, etc. The free version is really usable but I paid for the full version as it unlocks the advanced searching and a few other features I like/need. I have a whole process I've put together for organizing my presets and now I can locate stuff really quickly. I dream of the day when AxeEdit also functions as a preset library so we can have a centralized place to store/tag/transfer.
Unfortunately a few parameters may be reset like Any GEQ, speaker compression, master volume and if I recall right presence. But the gain and Bass/Mid/Treble stay the same. Just note the values before you reset.If memory serves, instead of doing a reset on the amp block, which resets all amp parameters, just change to the next amp model and then change it back. This resets the underlying model without changing your preset values.
Is there likely to be a Black Friday sale on this preset pack?
So I've redone the JMP models for a future firmware 14.x+ TonePack update.
Most of the drives are still okay under firmware 14, and you guys can tweak easily to taste.
BTW, the Timothy1 (Timmy pedal) found in Drive2 channel D in many Live Gold presets from pre-firmware 14 versions is main one that needs a tweak because of firmware 14 changes. Just do this: go it's TONE page and raise the LOW CUT from the new default to 20HZ to about 300 Hz (your taste) -- and then it's pretty much just like the prior firmware version (but the drives all sound better). The Fuzzes and some others are not affected in firmware 14 (thankfully!).
I'm also thinking about raising each preset's noise gate threshold some, more so most presets have virtually hiss/noise with your guitar sitting on a stand -- any objections?
One thing I'm really thinking about doing for the next firmware 14.x Live Gold update on Axe-Fx III version is adding a Compressor2 block placed right after the cab (and leave Comp1 still open for you, you can use that before the amp).
I'd set up Comp2 like a studio limiter (gentle compression of up to -2db, hard knee probably) with four different options -- because having it default "on" makes everything sound punchier and bigger (just like studios do).
Thoughts -- you guys okay with that? You can always turn the COMP2 block off (but I doubt you will once you hear it!)... I'm still on the fence about whether to do it -- but it sure sounds good here on some amps (the AC-20 was killing with it).
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Last, the Wah block has been such a pain because everyone handles their differently (toe down off versus spring loaded off) so I'm thinking about just deleting the wah block altogether in next update - and then you can just add your own wah wherever you went using the block library. I'd include a block forthat deleted wah, but with both types (toe-down =off, heel-up=off) that you could import into any preset, and do a video showing how. Not committed to this yet, but am thinking about it. The benefit of that is that (plus the new presence of Comp2 block) would also be an indicator to you that these presets are firmware 14 and not confused with earlier firmware 12 versions.
I'm also thinking about raising each preset's noise gate threshold some, more so most presets have virtually hiss/noise with your guitar sitting on a stand -- any objections?
Yes - left out “no” - fixed it, thanks for flagging.Did you leave out a word here? More hiss is certainly not desirable for me.
Yes - left out “no” - fixed it, thanks for flagging.