EDIT 19 April 2019 : ARES 1.03 versions of the presets added.
This pack specializes in clean & blues tones for the Fractal Audio Axe-Fx II, with Quantum firmware 7.02 and up (older firmware not supported). There’s 99 presets here : 38 cleans, 21 special effects, 11 presets made with Vox and Vox-like amps (clean, edge of breakup, mid gain for lead playing) and 29 presets for blues (mostly modern blues fusion, à la Robben Ford, Carlton, Frank Gambale etc).
These presets will work with a variety of guitars but are optimized for superstrats with a humbucker in bridge and neck and a single coil in the middle. I used an Ibanez RG to tweak them and usually uses position 4 of the pickup selector (middle single coil pickup + splitted bridge humbucker) for clean and crunch toness, and the bridge or neck humbuckers for mid to high gain. These presets are for FRFR systems, not traditional guitar speakers. Updates, if necessary because of firmware changes, will always be free.
These presets uses 31 user cabs, which I made from free sources and various techniques like tone matching. All those cabs are included and must be installed at the user spots indicated by their names (see video, link below).
Check this video for the presets and cabs installation procedure :
You need to drag & drop each cab to its correct spot, according to its filename (Cab 001 goes to user spot 001, etc.)
Custom harmonizer settings (for Eb tuning)
“A tout le monde” preset : Custom scales 1 & 2
“Hurricane LD” preset : Custom scales 9 and 10
“Arabic harmonies” preset : Custom scales 3 (Voice 1) and 4 (voice 2)
“Major penta harmonies” preset : Custom scales 5 (Voice 1) and 6 (Voice 2)
“Black Star” preset (in “Metal & Brit” pack) : Custom scale 12
Custom scale 1 : starting from ‘A’ SHIFT : 3, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 2 : 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 3 : 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3
Custom scale 4 : 7, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 6, 7
Custom scale 5 : 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 6 : 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 8, 7, 7, 8, 7
Custom scale 9 : 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5
Custom scale 10 : 4, 5, 4, 3, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5
Custom Scale 12 : 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 3
Have fun !