Could you help me understand whats going on in your clip☺ What was the change at 0:48? Is that the same preset as leading up to it, only then switching to solo lines?
Also the change at 1:38 (or around there) going into an almost Eric Johnson sound. From your post edit I feel you are saying this is all one preset. Is this just a volume change thats cleaning it up? Wow
Sure would love to study this preset if you would be willing to share.
Thanks
the clip is a single preset
I configure two principle 'modes' in my presets riff [or clean] mode and soloing mode
EXS1 [modifier extern5] switches between riff mode and soloing mode
another key feature of my presets is 'tone morphing'
usually I morph clean<- ->dirty, but I also have other variations [synth-ish pad<- ->riff / clean, and crunch with phased delay<- ->riff]
EXP1 [modifier extern1] is used for morphing
to get from dirty to clean the following happens:
- amp drive reduces
- input trim reduces
- a mixer fades out the tone from the amp and fades in the amp tones via a PEQ which boosts the lows and highs
- the reverb / a pitch shifter [chorusing] are introduced via a mixer
- compressor mix changes from 0 to 100%
- the master level of mixer1 reduces
this means that when the tone cleans, the PEQ and compressor prevent the tone from 'thinning', the pitch shifter adds a little sparkle and the reverb adds ambience
when switching to soloing mode the following happens:
- amp2 is muted
- amp1 pans centre
- the pitch shifter is added via the mixer block to maintain the stereo spread
- the reverb strengthens
- the delay un-bypasses
- the volume block becomes active [providing a large boost for additional gain, but the volume control is assigned to the EXP1 to killer this off when cleaning the soloing tone]
the effect I'm trying to create here is like turning down the guitar to clean up, whilst putting back all the tonal 'things' that go missing, and then doing a little tonal sweetening..