Why buying the most advanced and awesome piece of gear created yet, if you won't use it make your own sound..or more... It's an waste of money...even if u can afford it...I would say get an kemper...this is not an louis vuitton so u can show off...sorry if I'm offending someone...but that's my take on all this
None taken.
A while back I bought some ML Sound Lab Vox presets, kind of... they may have come free with an IR pack, I don't recall. Really good. Although Mikko hadn't done that all that much to make the models match the recorded amp sounds, I was really interested to hear his take on some classic Vox AC30 sounds. Given I no longer own an AC30 (did have 2 of them once upon a time), it was kind of cool to hear such familiar sounds coming out of my monitors.
So last year I did similar and bought some Marshall 4x12 IRs (cabs and speakers I have once owned, again), and out of curiosity got some presets at the same time. None of them I'd use just they are, but the thing I liked was seeing what someone else (and someone with a decent pair of "studio ears") did to get a sound that they liked, and matched some old amps that they could compare them with directly.
So while I take your point entirely, the presets I have paid for so far are, to me at least, not so much Louis Vuitton, as interesting steps in an education. No more or less valuable than a Leon Todd (
@2112 ) tutorial video, just totally different because they involve a bit of digging to get value from them.
I think the basic amp sounds from FW 15.01 are pretty amazing, and anyone that is making presets to sell might need to seriously up their game to be any noticeably better or more useful/accurate/great feeling that an Axe FX III straight out of the box, but I bet some will.
For me, so far, not sure if I'll ever buy more, but they have a place, either in education about what the Axe can do, or for someone that wants a particular sound without having to spend time on it.
Liam