45 presets for firmware 2.21 and above, including a few made for firmware 3.60, using the new cabs (all my presets usually uses my own IRs, which I prefer). This pack completes the Big Pack, by focusing mostly on amp models and effects added in the last firmwares, and also on new custom cabs. The Archon clean and lead are now my favorite amp models in the Helix, and I like the Litigator a lot too.
Some features :
– 5 new IRs from valhallir.at (http://valhallir.at/en/). Those are custom mixes I made from various cabs. Those mixes are also included in the full cab packs sold in their website, check them ! I’m specially proud that my mix for the Double Whoooper cab (a Mesa Boogie 4×12 with English V30) is considered by Marcus Siepen (Blind Guardian) as “the best IR he ever used”.
I use those new IRs on presets with new amp models but also amp models that were already in the original Big Pack.
– I’m also using 10 IRs from the Big Pack.
– Most presets uses various snapshots and those have been named accordingly.
– In the Big Pack from last year, I used mostly the Plate reverb as it’s my favorite model, this time I use more reverb models, and more delay models too. But focus in my presets remains on tone, you can always customize the effects, add blocks etc.
– I use the 3 band compressor a lot as a tone shaping tool, I like it more than a simple EQ to fatten a tone. Here’s a video, about how I tweak this block (as there’s no visual indicator of the gain reduction, which is even more important for multiband compression than for standard compression) :
– There’s also one preset for 4 cable method, which I use with a Fender EVH 50 w amp.
IRs
You need to put the user IRs in the right places – “090 LX TDR HG1.wav” goes to user spot 090, etc.
Watch this video for the easiest procedure : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVUNLwjUbrQ
Original presets list :
Andy Timmons, Andy Timmons2, ArchDonk, Archon cln 1, Archon cln 2, Badonk Lead 1, Badonk Lead 2, Badonk redux, Busy One cln, Del Sol 300 cln, Heavy Meteor 4, Heavy Meteor 5, Hot rodded Plexi, Litigator 1, MKIV ultimate2, Modern Marshall, Squashed Hiwatt, TDR 4CM 1, TDR Archon 1, TDR Archon 2, Wild 2204 Mod, Wild J-45 Brt, Wild P-75 Brt, Wild Plexi Brt, Wild Powerball, Wild Recto, Wild Shiva, Wild Soldano, Wild Uber, Woody Blue cln
Update 3.01 bonus (12 new presets) : VH4 Lead 1 & 2, VH4 RTM & LD 1 & 2, Dual VH4, VH4 + Revv Gen, Prince Glitch 1/2/3/4, Princeton cln 1 & 2. Two IRs that were missing with those bonus presets have been added too.