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 !
7 comments
Dirk Kortleven
Dear sir,
it looks like I can’t copy the cab presets in the ‘axe-manage cabs’. Also if I copy a preset directly in axe-edit, the name appears but I don’t get any sound. What am I doing wrong.
Sincere greetings,
Dirk
Dirk Kortleven
Solved the issue 😉
Fremen
Hi Dirk ! there’s not “cab presets” : there are cabs, and there are presets. Cabs must be put at specific slots, presets can be put where you want
click on tools/Axe-Manage cabs to drag the cabs in, at the specific memory slots indicated by their name (cab 008 goes to slot 008 etc)
and then you should have sound !
kbleidel
plus i never received U100 GTR body and some others
Fremen
You receive only the cabs you need for the pack you bought. I made things that way because if you buy only one pack but get all the cabs, you’ll have many cabs which you won’t use with my presets, and they may take places of your own cabs
kbleidel
Question, love the presets but I have a question. For your patch “Silver Surfer”, you list it for cab “Y” as being U0040 OH 412 MESA V60 mix and U0041 OH 412 RECTO V60 yet these were not included in your user cabs. Please clarify?
Fremen
You’re not supposed to use Cab Y in that preset, it’s for my personal use… It’s not a multi-scenes preset. And these are commercial cabs