New Presets for Quantum 2.01 or later...

Tons of cool stuff here, but I'm honestly surprised at how low the Master Volume settings are on a lot of these- maybe I'm just a psycho, but I'll usually turn the master up to at least 5, even up to values of 7 on some high gain amps.

Gotta hear the amp scream!
 
The Last Romantic said:
Tons of cool stuff here, but I'm honestly surprised at how low the Master Volume settings are on a lot of these- maybe I'm just a psycho, but I'll usually turn the master up to at least 5, even up to values of 7 on some high gain amps.

Gotta hear the amp scream!
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That increases power amp distortion and tends to make the bass loose and uncontrollable on many high gain models. But it may work for your setup :)
 
Hi all

Are these ( a ) all-new-ground-up presets (?) -or- are they ( b ) the "old" presets re-saved as Quantum presets (?)

If its ( a ) I'll try them out ........ but if its ( b ) I'll give them a miss ..... I nearly sold my Axe II 2 weeks after getting it as I was trying to get the "old" presets to sound even remotely usable ...... then once I built my own ground-up-from-totally-empty-and-blank-slots ..... I " got it " :)

Ben
 
Hi Ben,

The answer is (b): The names of presets are exactly the same as last version (FW18,03 was the last factory presets baking), the blocks disposition is the same, but is not a straight re-saving of old presets, looking into deep some parameters are slightly tweaked. In short: this are the old presets updated
 
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Thanks ETOLKIEN

I'll give them a big pass then - Im sure some/many use them - but I wasted many days with them last time and they nearly caused me to sell my unit and start posting how " not good " the Axe was .... luckily I found simlar posts where they said the answer was building your own from scratch ..... they were right :)
 
I did audition them using Axe Manage. Lots of tweaks (cab block in the HBE preset come to mind) that I liked, I saved as blocks.
 
I'm quiet sure that Fremen redid some of the Presets - you can spot it when the "NULL" is selected in the cab block - there sound great and a good starting point.
 
I loaded these on the 10th when they came out,(still FW 2.01) thought they sounded really good! Loaded 2.02 and felt like they lost a little something? ( more gain for one thing )Probably because they were built from FW 2.01? Anyone else? or is it me?
 
RDH said:
I loaded these on the 10th when they came out,(still FW 2.01) thought they sounded really good! Loaded 2.02 and felt like they lost a little something? ( more gain for one thing )Probably because they were built from FW 2.01? Anyone else? or is it me?
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I think the "more gain" has to do with the harmonic default value (in 2.01 different than 0, 2.02 =0).
 
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As fas as I understand, each amp had it's unique default value for the harmonics. Now they all default to 0, but the 0 on a particular amp sounds exactly as the previous default value (Like 0,48 or something) for the particular amp in the previous firmware.
But maybe I am wrong...
 
I loaded them in my AXE FX XL and there is now an active COMP block in a bunch of the presets.
Weird.
 
Active compressor? Why would they do that, unless sustain was suffering? Also, it isn't too great for noise either, if you don't need it!
 
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Active compressor? Why would they do that, unless sustain was suffering? Also, it isn't too great for noise either, if you don't need it!
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It's active on almost every one I have checked.
Quite a few others have Pan/Trem active also as well as Delay.
Really odd.
Maybe I will try downloading them again.
 
Agree, I tend to get rid of all blocks except: drive (if any), amp and cab...then I adjust input gate and output level...done!

I understand that factory presets must show the variety of effects for new users, but if you like it simple and direct you can find amazing tone cores with this approach!
 
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