The ultimate acoustic simulation pack for the Fractal Audio AM4
The ultimate acoustic simulation presets pack for the Fractal Audio AM4 with firmware 1.02 and above, with not less than 58 presets (and more to come !). The idea was to use many different electric guitars/pickups and make acoustic simulation presets for each of them. I used two different sources to make tonematches for each guitar, one acoustic recording, and my PRS Hollowbody SE Piezo guitar, processed by a custom acoustic guitar IR.
Each preset has 4 scenes, with various EQ and effects settings. Watch this video for more details, it also has some tweaking tips :
Guitars and pickups used :
Acoustic simulation tonematching works much better if done for specific guitars and pickups ! Because of that, I made those tonematch presets with the most common guitars, like Gibson Les Paul & SG, Fender Telecaster & Stratocaster, various PRS or Ibanez, a Yamaha Revstar with P-90 pickups etc. Here’s the full list :
Fender American Stratocaster, “quack” & neck positions
Squier Stratocaster with EMG SA pickups (EMG DG20 as used by David Gilmour on PULSE), quack & neck positions
Fender Telecaster Nashville with DiMarzio Twang King pickups, bridge, middle (bridge + neck) and neck positions
Epiphone SG Modern with Probucker pickups, middle & neck positions
Gibson Les Paul Standard Faded 60s with DiMarzio PAF 58th Anniversary pickups, middle & neck positions
Ibanez RGR5220 with DiMarzio Norton/Transition Neck pickups, “quack” & neck (split) positions
Ibanez JS240PS with DiMarzio Satchur8 and Sustainiac pickups, middle & neck positions
Jackson Dinky with Seymour Duncan JB & SH2, quack, middle & neck positions
Tom Anderson Drop Top Classic Stratocaster with HC2/VA7.2 pickups, “quack” & neck positions
PRS DGT SE with stock pickups, middle & neck positions
PRS Hollowbody SE Piezo with stock pickups, bridge & neck positions (presets will work for ES-335 type guitars) ; I also made a preset for the piezo pickup, with an acoustic IR to enhance it
Yamaha Revstar RSS20 with Seymour Duncan P-Rails pickups, middle & neck positions, for the humbucker & P-90 modes. Use these for Les Paul/SG type guitars with P-90 pickups !
There’s also a preset for an acoustic guitar with onboard piezo or soundhole pickup. More presets, for popular pickups combinations like EMG 85/81, will be added when possible. Note that these presets use new tonematches, with the guitars I currently own, and not the tonematches I made for my Axe-Fx III/FM9/FM3 acoustic simulation packs !