Voes did a great preset share and some people asked me for what I do in a similar vein. Instead of jacking his thread, I am doing my own.
Here's the scoop. I do a lot of acoustic work and acoustic gigs; I've been a long time user of the Line 6 Variax for acoustic stage performing. The past few years if you've seen any pictures of me from gigs that have been posted online, you've seen my JTV-59 Variax. What I offer to bands is the ability to go between acoustic-to-electric within a song too. That's a bit tricky with the Variax, you need to switch the guitar and your preset at the same time.
My #1 guitar is my 1995 PRS Custom 22; and during some downtime last fall, I spent some time Tone Matching in an attempt to make my PRS Custom 22 (with no piezo; JB humbucker Bridge) into an acoustic. Would it work? Could it work?
It worked pretty good actually. I ran the process twice. Took my *killer* Taylor K-16ce and made a recording of myself playing it. Mic'd with a tube Royer mic (David Royer did these as kits back in the day) and took my time till I was happy with how it sounded. When I Tone Match, I follow Cliff's advice - I just play a chord up and down the fretboard chromatically. All the way up, all the way down. I loop that in a DAW then do my Tone Match to that.
What I then did with this one is export the Tone Match as an IR and loaded it in to the preset and ran the Tone Match block after the IR and ran the Tone Match again. [edit] Then I used Fractal's Cab Lab and mixed the resultant IR's serially and combined them into ONE IR (it is attached). That got me MUCH closer to what I wanted. Then I added a multi-compressor and a slight chorus (Dimension D works PERFECT) and reverb. Works great. All you need is the one IR in a User Slot and your cab block pointing at it.
Ideal perfect world acoustic tone? NO WAY. A very musical, practical, usable acoustic/electric hybrid tone that stands alone well AND in a full band mix on stage? YES. My keyboard player in my band owns a studio and KNOWS tone; he even told me, "That's the best acoustic stage tone I've ever heard." Nuff said, case closed. Sean knows his stuff.
So I stripped all the Global stuff out, I stripped out all the expression pedal stuff and will share this here on the forum for now. Once we have block sharing on Axe-Exchange, I'll share it there too.
***IMPORTANT*** You MUST set the Multi-Compressor (and normal compressor block if you use that) to YOUR touch. I look for about a -3db or just over that on transients. When I did share this with an artist (from the Fractal Artist Page) that I work with, I had to change the settings drastically; he plays with a much lighter touch than I do.
This Tone Match was done with a Seymour Duncan JB, full volume, full tone on my 1995 PRS Custom 22. I did this with MY hands on both guitars; IMHO, that's important to note. In other hands, I have noted that it works well as a musical tone, but it is not the same in other hands.
This is a firmware v12.03beta5 preset.
Ideally, you have fun and enjoy it; tweak it to your heart's desire and if you possibly can - just do your own Tone Match in a similar manner for optimal results. The Axe-FX II is a VERY powerful tool; but unless you use those tools you just might not appreciate what it can do. The Tone Match is VERY cool and not just for copping EVH and JP tones.
Attached find the preset and the IR that you need to point the user cab at. Use FractalBot to load the IR into one of your open User IR slots and change the Cab Block to point to that... and have at it.
The ToneMatch IR
View attachment 022-PRS Acoustic 1a.syx
The Preset
Here's the scoop. I do a lot of acoustic work and acoustic gigs; I've been a long time user of the Line 6 Variax for acoustic stage performing. The past few years if you've seen any pictures of me from gigs that have been posted online, you've seen my JTV-59 Variax. What I offer to bands is the ability to go between acoustic-to-electric within a song too. That's a bit tricky with the Variax, you need to switch the guitar and your preset at the same time.
My #1 guitar is my 1995 PRS Custom 22; and during some downtime last fall, I spent some time Tone Matching in an attempt to make my PRS Custom 22 (with no piezo; JB humbucker Bridge) into an acoustic. Would it work? Could it work?
It worked pretty good actually. I ran the process twice. Took my *killer* Taylor K-16ce and made a recording of myself playing it. Mic'd with a tube Royer mic (David Royer did these as kits back in the day) and took my time till I was happy with how it sounded. When I Tone Match, I follow Cliff's advice - I just play a chord up and down the fretboard chromatically. All the way up, all the way down. I loop that in a DAW then do my Tone Match to that.
What I then did with this one is export the Tone Match as an IR and loaded it in to the preset and ran the Tone Match block after the IR and ran the Tone Match again. [edit] Then I used Fractal's Cab Lab and mixed the resultant IR's serially and combined them into ONE IR (it is attached). That got me MUCH closer to what I wanted. Then I added a multi-compressor and a slight chorus (Dimension D works PERFECT) and reverb. Works great. All you need is the one IR in a User Slot and your cab block pointing at it.
Ideal perfect world acoustic tone? NO WAY. A very musical, practical, usable acoustic/electric hybrid tone that stands alone well AND in a full band mix on stage? YES. My keyboard player in my band owns a studio and KNOWS tone; he even told me, "That's the best acoustic stage tone I've ever heard." Nuff said, case closed. Sean knows his stuff.
So I stripped all the Global stuff out, I stripped out all the expression pedal stuff and will share this here on the forum for now. Once we have block sharing on Axe-Exchange, I'll share it there too.
***IMPORTANT*** You MUST set the Multi-Compressor (and normal compressor block if you use that) to YOUR touch. I look for about a -3db or just over that on transients. When I did share this with an artist (from the Fractal Artist Page) that I work with, I had to change the settings drastically; he plays with a much lighter touch than I do.
This Tone Match was done with a Seymour Duncan JB, full volume, full tone on my 1995 PRS Custom 22. I did this with MY hands on both guitars; IMHO, that's important to note. In other hands, I have noted that it works well as a musical tone, but it is not the same in other hands.
This is a firmware v12.03beta5 preset.
Ideally, you have fun and enjoy it; tweak it to your heart's desire and if you possibly can - just do your own Tone Match in a similar manner for optimal results. The Axe-FX II is a VERY powerful tool; but unless you use those tools you just might not appreciate what it can do. The Tone Match is VERY cool and not just for copping EVH and JP tones.
Attached find the preset and the IR that you need to point the user cab at. Use FractalBot to load the IR into one of your open User IR slots and change the Cab Block to point to that... and have at it.
The ToneMatch IR
View attachment 022-PRS Acoustic 1a.syx
The Preset
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