FM9 – Fremen’s Essentials

These 96 presets are those I use with my cover bands, with which I play classic rock/pop/heavy rock/metal. Latest Firmware version included : 9.00. Keyword here is versatility, as there’s a little bit of everything : 8 clean presets, 9 crunch & mid gain presets, 24 high gain presets (rhythm and leads), 19 special effects presets, 36 song-specific presets (U2, Metallica, Alter Bridge, Yes, Guns’n’Roses, Scorpions, Megadeth, Europe, Iron Maiden, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, Dire Straits, Van Halen, Deep Purple, Queen, Breaking Benjamin, Puddle of Mud etc.). Also included are 33 user IRs, and global scales for the Pitch Block, as some presets uses “intelligent” harmonies.

They will work with a variety of guitars but are optimized for superstrats with a humbucker in bridge. I usually use position 4 of the pickup selector (middle single coil pickup + split bridge humbucker) for the clean and crunch presets, and the bridge or neck humbuckers for mid to high gain. A Les Paul guitar was used for “brothers in Arms” and “Firth of fifth”.
These presets uses 3 expression pedals and are optimized for the 8 scenes layout, as most have several scenes.

I used some of the presets (with firmware 3.0) to demo a Squier guitar :

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…and a Yahama Revstar (from 0:15 to 5:09) :

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