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I used to share my presets for free, but now I'm doing it commercially, so I removed all the download links for older firmwares. Check my quantum 2.0 thread for the details. However, if you want the presets for an older firmware you're still using, send me a message on d3usxm4ch1n4@gmail.com

Saturday 26 April 2014

Firmware 14.02 presets : update 26.04.2014

Here's a new version of my three banks. In the previous version I wanted to keep all my high gain amps pool (bank B), all my clean amps pool (bank C) too - check my previous post for more information about these - and all my U2 presets.This time, I'm keeping only those I intend to use. So I deleted a lot of presets, and more important, I tweaked the clean presets pool a lot too ; imho, they're much better now. I now use the tweaked clean amps I like the most in my live presets (4, 12, 44, 46, 51).
Some other changes :

Bank A

preset 003 (JC120 clean) : brighter than before
preset 031 (Wowy+Str+Still+Pr+AIWIY) : This one combines five U2 songs into one, as I deleted the individual presets for U2 songs (my band doesn't cover U2 anymore). From scene 1 to scene 5, these are With or without you, Where the streets have no name, I still haven't found what I'm looking for, Pride, All I want is you. Pride normally uses two delays in series but it's not the case here - I don't play it anyway.
preset 036 (Ashes) : a new preset to cover a Pain of Salvation song, see this thread: http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-preset-exchange/85179-ashes-pain-salvation-5-scenes-preset.html and this video :



preset 037 (Hallelujah) : a new preset to cover Pain of Salvation's version of "Hallelujah". Scene 1 verses, scene 2 chorus, scene 3 lead, scene 4 "organ". I took the "organ" from the "organic" stock preset. I also uses that organ sound with scenes 1 and 1, its level is controlled by expression pedal 2.
preset 040 (Angle severe lead) : a new preset based on the lead scene of preset 036. I'll tweak it some more.

Bank B

presets 161-162-163 are new, from other users. The high gain amps pool starts at 164. Like said above, I kept the ones I like the most.
My Vox and Vox clones presets are also in bank B now.

Bank C
Check presets 298 to 307 ; they are much improved from previous versions. They all use custom commercial IRs so you'll need them (I don't share them but there's screenshots of the recipes in my .rar file).
I also added 2 presets from RACA, 2 from Yek and 1 from Simeon in the "special effects" presets (325 to 384)

As you will see, there's much more blank presets in all three banks. I need those spaces for future presets, specially as my band added many new songs to its setlist.

The other big change : I review my custom IRs selection and organization, here's a screenshot :


There's some empty slots here too for futur IRs, like the metal IRs Ownhammer are going to release soon (see this thread: http://forum.fractalaudio.com/axe-fx-ii-recordings/84678-first-ur-clip-review-sick-new-metal-ir-pack-coming-sooooon.html )

See my previous post for other details about my user IRs. Unfortunately, I didn't keep a recipe for the IR 004, which I like a lot for clean sounds.

Wednesday 16 April 2014

Firmware 14.02 presets

Here's my presets for version 14.02 of the firmware.

There's been a lot of changes from the banks I uploaded before. First, I decided to integrate the hi gain presets I released for firmware 13 in my normal bank B. For that, I needed to keep only the first group of presets, those using the same IR. Of course I updated those presets for firmware 14, with the new models (Savage, Triaxis Red...) and the revamped Rectifiers.
I also integrated my clean presets (previously in bank A) in bank C. But the biggest change of all, and it's a major one for me, is that I almost completely reviewed my custom IRs selection. More on that below.

Bank organization :

Bank A

1-72 : Presets I use live. I use 1-50 the most. I will soon remove many U2 presets as I don't cover most of these songs anymore.
79-80 : A quick test of two of the latest amp models, to complete my "clean presets pool" which is in bank C
81-89 : Various presets using the Vox and Vox-like models, which I use essentially for U2 covers
91-128 : Tests, presets I use for the fun, some presets from other users that I couldn't put in bank C due to lack of space... presets 102-108 are used to process my backing vocals through the Axe (I use a DigiTech Vocalist and a TC Helicon pedal). They are controlled via MIDI by the MFC-101 too.

Bank B
129-160 : Hi gain presets sorted by amp model from various sources : stock presets and presets from Axe Change tweaked to my liking, and my own creations.
162-223 : My "high gain amps pool", which was previously in my hi gain bank for firmware 13. See this post for details : http://axefremen.blogspot.com/2014/02/fremens-high-gain-starting-pack-bank.html
225-256 : Blues, blues-rock & fusion presets sorted by amp model from various sources : stock presets and presets from Axe Change, again tweaked to my liking, and my own creations.

bank C
257-277 : Marshall & Marshall clones presets sorted by amp model from various sources : stock presets and presets from Axe Change, again tweaked to my liking, and my own creations.
278-284 : Special effects presets, stock or from other users
285-311 : My "clean amps pool", which was previously in my bank A for firmware 13.
312-384 : Cleans, special effects from various sources, again tweaked to my liking.

Now the biggest change : IR selection. Here's my user cabs :






"ThisOne" is still my main hi gain IR but it's in ultrares now. Although the original .wav file is quite short, in ultrares there's a small difference from the normal version which I like.

Organization :
001-004 : IRs for Vox amps
005- 009 : Clean amps
010-015 : Marshall amps
016-048 : high gain amps
049-053 : Boutique amps (for blues-rock and fusion ; think Dumble and the likes)
054-069 : Some more Marshall and high gain
084-100 : IRs used in specific presets only