YT: Axe-Fx Mesa for Metal Shootout!

[ML SOUND LAB]

Please take a listen to these metal patches that I've been working on on my Axe-Fx Ultra and let me know what you think of them and which was your favorite one. Thank you guys!

 

[ro-mix]

Triple recto RULES!
What samps you actually use on Ultra for those patches?

 

[ML SOUND LAB]

USA LEAD 1 for the Mark IV and Recto New for everything else.

 

[Azael]

Please share the presets and cab

 

[soundwavestudiocy]

man, this is sex.no no seriously, this is SEX! the first patch with the Mark IV and the recto are out of this world..

 

[shasha]

Couldn't pick one, they all sounded great.

 

[MauganRa]

The roadking. For sure.

 

[symphx]

1st one, mark 4, and hughes and kettner, what cabs?

 

[voes]

sounded all great. but the first one was the best IMHO

 

[PALYGAP]

Cool shootout. I prefer the Mesa Boogie Road King. More "dirty" and "savage" to me. But all this sounds pretty subjective IMHO.

 

[guitarzpt]

I think the Mark IV is killer! Clark get an AXE-FX II and make a preset like that for the II and I would love you forever

What cab did you use? Custom IR resulting of tone matching?

 

[ML SOUND LAB]

Yeah they all got some match EQ going on. I tweaked the tones in my DAW and then made IRs out of them.

 

[JJunkie]

Hey man, really nice work... have you ever tried eq matching using a stock cab, then adjusting the eq curve in ozone to do a rough match and then manually set PEQs in the axe fx? Just wondering if you have or what your results were..

 

[ML SOUND LAB]

Yea I've done that but I got in to some issues because of some of the stock cabs have high and low passes and the matched tone did not so it couldn't EQ them back etc. Anyways... the cab block without drive is just an IR which is EQ? Right? So then there's at least no use of having it there.

 

[Angelopes]

Very god Job!! Hard to pick the best! But I go with the road king! Any chance to share the patches?

 

[JJunkie]

Yea I've done that but I got in to some issues because of some of the stock cabs have high and low passes and the matched tone did not so it couldn't EQ them back etc. Anyways... the cab block without drive is just an IR which is EQ? Right? So then there's at least no use of having it there.

yeah i agree, i was only asking to see if it could be used routinely to negate the need for having a custom IR.

btw, sorry man i couldnt really decide which amp was the best. The clip kinda made me imagine a bunch of guitarist heavyweights jamming together

 

[ro-mix]

Yeah they all got some match EQ going on. I tweaked the tones in my DAW and then made IRs out of them.

Can you abit describe the procedure of making those IRs?

 

[ML SOUND LAB]

Well it's really nothing too special. Match EQ and then I just EQ it to get it as flat as possible... I'm kinda obsessed with getting guitar tones flat. The flatter the guitar tone is the louder you can get it in a mix. Also the more room it takes in a mix so you have to EQ it to fit a certain mix afterwards but that's the whole point. I want an IR that can be made to work in all situations.

 

[guitarzpt]

What did you Match EQ the MArk IV preset with? I mean what song or sound?

 

[Balrog]

I thought you got rid of the AXE and went to Overloud and real amps (?), but whatever that was, they all sounded really good. Anyway, fwiw, I liked the Mark IV best, probably because I've owned two of them before going digital and I prefer Mark tones. The H&K sounded good too.


Edit: I just saw your thread about getting another Axe (haven't read it yet)....welcome back.