The Police presets pack for the Axe-Fx III /FM3 / FM9 !
These 19 presets are all about the most popular The Police songs : Bring on the night, Can’t stand losing you, De Do Do Do De Da Da Da, Don’t stand so close to me, Driven to tears, Every breath you take, Every little thing she does is magic, Hole in my life, Message in a bottle, Next to you, O my God, Roxanne, So lonely, Synchronicity pt II, The bed’s too big without you, Voices inside my head, Walking in your footsteps, Walking on the moon, Wrapped around your fingers.
I played “So lonely” during my very first show in 1983, and then, the following years, covered many more Police songs with various bands. So, working on these famous Andy Summers sounds, using my Fender Telecaster, was a great nostalgia trip, with tons of fun ! I used the studio recording as references, but also checked two different concerts (Synchronicity live, and the more recent Tokyo Dome show from 2008), to fine-tune/adapt the sounds for a single player, as there are many overdubs in the studio versions.
These presets are for FRFR setups/studio monitors/Direct to a FOH mixer. It’s recommended to play them with a Fender Telecaster type guitar, on the bridge pickup. Fender Stratocasters also work, but a single coil bridge pickup is essential !
Note that for the first time, I release a pack with presets for both the Axe-Fx III, FM3 and FM9. This is my smaller pack and it was much easier for me to make presets compatible with the three platforms ; usually, I have too many presets that are too CPU hungry for the FM3, and sometimes for the FM9 too, so the grids are different, etc…