I've been looking at other threads before writing this but they were not explicitly saying what was their main use with one the tonepacks would be. If you need me to give you more details let me know
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@refraktr: I do talk a little about the difference in my LiveGold video between the two. Maybe this will help.
1400+ Naked Amps - uses two amps and two cabs. Just two banks. Can use up to four cabs in a preset to get a sound. Has some presets designed just for single coils (designated by an asterisk * in preset or scene name). It's just available for the III for now, but an FM9 version is in the works (will only use two cab IRs per cab though, not the four the III can) - and will be included in same future download as the III (you get both when you buy one). Can't make for the FM3, because that only allows 1 amp and 1 cab block per preset.
Has some bonus presets and a few bass amp presets. Came out originally when Axe-FX III was released with firmware 1 version, then updated to fw5-6-, fw11-12 , fw 15-16, and now Bank 1 is updated to Cygnus 17.02 and Bank 2 is coming early 2022.
The FW 15 update added the same amp control CS switches found on the Live Gold TonePack, plus a compressor/limiter after the Cab block.
It was made on Atomic NEO CLRs but set up as studio monitors, not as a live gig. The Bank 1 Cygnus update was done on ATC 25 SCMS pro mixing monitors (expen$ive), which I bought after talking to both Eddie Kramer (Hendrix, Stones, Zep, everyone) and Elliott Scheiner (Eagles, Steely Dan) at NAMM 2020 pre-pandemic.
So in that way, the Naked Amps are set up to record as is - but to fit the tone into a full band mix, you may have to cut some lows with a filer on your DAW channel set to 125Hz-150Hz.
1000+ Live Gold was designed on a FM3 originally (fw1.x - now on fw 4.x) and was designed for people who play live. Meaning, I didn't use studio monitors to dial in. Instead, I put two Atomic Neo CLRs (one on top of one on the ground) about 10-12 feet away from me and played every sound at gig volume - over 92db loud, they way I would use it live.
I added more effects, and for most amps made scenes 1-4 go from clean to lo gain to rhythm (main) to lead, and Scenes 5-8 include a filter block boost so you could use single coil guitars in same preset on Scene 5-8, or just just them as a boosted sound with humbuckers.
There's a little more bass in the Live Gold presets, just like a real amp on stage would have. But that can be cut easy and they used for recording and work great. As with Naked Amps, you may have to cut some lows with a filer on your DAW channel set to 150Hz or thereabouts. Guitars' "meat" lives in the 200Hz to 500 Hz range, and the rest of the EQ tone definition is up to about 3.3kHz and not much more after that. Most real guitar cab speakers don't go above 6.5kHz in frequency output, and don't need to.
I then first used the CS controllers 2 to 6 attached to the amp block, so you could use a foot controller live and play with amp boost, fat, saturation, brite reverse, and low cut if you wanted. Amp Boost (CS2) is especially useful - it wakes some amps like Marshalls up so they sing and roar. So I put notes in "try Cs2, or CS5" etc by some scenes.
There are no bass amps in Live Gold, because I offer 200+ Bass TonePack now.
Live Gold is available on all three platforms -- the III, the FM3, and the new FM9 (and you get all three versions no matter which one you buy), and it is updated to the public Cygnus firmware for all of them. When people ask me which to buy, I tell them LiveGold, because it is the latest and better organized than Naked Amps. I think some of the modern/meal amps are better on Live Gold. Mark Holcomb of Periphery contributed a few, sitting in my studio with his PRS.
But Naked Amps IS cool (as comments above attest). I appreciate the kudos gents! Now, back to work on updating Bank 2 of Naked Amps, (aka "how AustinBuddy spent his December 2021" -ha!).
