Firmware 18.08 update

This is a small update, but an important one, as my main high gain amp, the MKIIC+, as been G3'ed in firmware 18.08. This mean changes to 33 presets in bank A.

Here's a video I did while I was tweaking the MKIIC+ (I use the Bright/Deep version). The final version is slightly different.



Apologies for the low framerate, I recorded that to test a capture mode of my webcam. As the clothes I'm wearing suggest, I didn't plan on uploading it, but as it was a fun jam. Apologies also for the clams and "oops" moments, I'm not in my comfort zone when I improvise over jazzy chord changes...

Besides the MKIIC+ updates, the novelties are :
- a test preset in bank A called "Mesa LD paracomp" where I'm testing post-amp parallel compression, focused on the mids (that's why I used a filter block in bandpass mode)
- Bulb's presets in bank B and C. I changed the user cab for the clean one in bank C
- small tweaks to the Herbie stock presets in bank B

And two new presets, using the D30 and AC20 :



Here, each scene selects various input trim and input drive settings, from clean (scene 1) to crunch (scene 2-3) to lead (scenes 4-5)

Check my previous post ( http://axefremen.blogspot.com/2015/04/firmware-1807-presets.html ) for other details regarding my banks and user IRs

Firmware 18.07 presets

You know the drill...



About the presets

Bank A
1-69 : main presets, for live. Many are song-specific.
70-99 : blank presets, I do the programming here.
100-128 : various presets, for the fun or testing purposes.

Bank B
129-203 : high gain presets sorted by amp model.
208-212 : a few Vox amps presets, for U2 etc.
214-256 : blues and fusion presets, sorted by amp model.

Bank C
257-289 : Marshall and Marshall clones presets - some other Marshall-like amps are in 129-203, because used for higher gain)
291-299 : special effects with crunch or high gain amps
301-324 : clean presets
325-362 : special effects with clean amps
363-384 : synth presets

* indicates that the preset is stock or from another user, and not or barely tweaked

** indicates that the preset is stock or from another user, and that I tweaked it a lot. All the 325-362 presets use my own amp and cab settings

Some recent videos

I don't update my blog often, I know... Here's a few videos I uploaded these last months.

First, Linley Marthe, a friend pursuing a successful musical career. Among others, he played for Joe Zawinul. I was the first journalist in Mauritius to write an article on him, he was maybe 16 years have a time. While he was in holidays here a few months ago, I invited him to test the Axe-Fx II. The amazing thing is that he didn't touch a bass guitar at all for two months before this day ; I had to borrow a Jazz Bass with almost dead strings for him. Here's a few stolen moments.



I also borrowed a friend's Kemper for some tonematching fun, here's the result. Note that I redid those and a few more since, for firmware 18.07



Here's a short video about an useful Cab-Lab tip. I use the search feature to find specific mics and compare them with the auto audition feature.



Just for the fun, a recent gig in which I was a guest