I've been working on doing them in my spare time. The problem is, I haven't had much spare time lately. I'm close with the new fw but it's not quite there.
Yeah the issue is, when amps are updated things change. Finding a new amp is important, but I'm probably going to redo the tone matches with the new fw and amps through my XL+ and then save as cab files so we can use them in the AX8.
I also don't know that I'll give them away for free this time. I've put a lot of time into these new ones, and there's more to the story that I can't share right now. Let's just say I have really big plans for these and I'm really just the right amps away from nailing them spot on.
If they don't blow the old ones away, I'm not going to release them. If they are just close or as good as the old ones, I'll give them away. But I'm going for the gold in these because I've still not heard that tube saturation tone Ed gets from anyone doing vh patches.
There's always a transistor, stratty type synthetic thing happening. Kemper, Helix, and even some people that do Eddie sounds on our stuff get the artifact.
Everyone nails the eq of the tone, but they don't get the tube artifacts quite right. Ed has this tone that nearly trips over itself at times. It's clean but saturated at the same time. It's not a distortion thing. It's the artifact of a loud tube amp dying inside that gets pinch harmonics that you don't just hear. The best way I describe them is you feel them from the top of your skull down into your trachea. That's some deep, twisted thinking there lol! That's what I hear and feel when Ed does those pinches like in the solo of mean streets, Intruder, dead or alive etc. They don't just scream, they cough and scream at the same time and you need a tube amp sim that chokes or as Cliff said to me once, " that starved plate sound".
I'm getting that sound and have 8 of our amps that do it so far. I'm going to try some new tone matches with these amps and I'm hoping that will sort it. The new fw definitely can nail this, I just have to spend a little more time and dial things in. I'm really close, but I'm looking for a certain thing that I'm not hearing yet. I'll post up some samples if I gain any ground. Just finding the time these days with home renovations, studio clients and working on my own album....ugh! Stay tuned!