Fremen Quantum 2.0 presets

I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and finally decided to do presets programming professionally. 

As a result, I’ve never put as much work as I did with my Quantum 2.0 presets. Of course I had a base to work on, but it’s been a while, and many firmware revisions, since I checked/corrected all the scenes in specific presets  - the ones from my High Gain Starting Pack (HGSP, check this : http://axefremen.blogspot.com/2014/02/fremens-high-gain-starting-pack-bank.html) or from the five scenes collection (check this : http://axefremen.blogspot.com/2015/05/1812-focus-on-5-scenes-presets.html), just to mention a few examples. I also completely revised my clean sounds, making a preset for each amp model suitable (to my ears of course) for clean sounds (most  are in bank C).

Of course, I can’t ask for money for presets from other users (like Simeon, Yek, Tyler Grund or Bulb, to name a few), or stock presets, even if I modified them a lot, and most of the time I did. So I will still share those for free, in a bank where I regrouped them. Likewise, I will share my non-commercial user IRs for free. Here’s the link for both (the IRs are needed for my commercial presets, so get them) :

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/51289fhkibgeu2r/AADzkl4t4xUvFSPuShh5apu6a?dl=0

However these are not my go-to presets. You won’t find any of my acoustic simulation, clean, crunch, rhythm, lead, blues/fusion, song specific presets here, but mostly special effects, or some bare bones stock presets I like to keep as a reference for some amp models. My own sounds, those I use with my bands or in my videos, are not in there, but in the three banks I’m selling : 

If you want those three banks (384 presets), please make a  30 US $ payment on Paypal to this account : thibderob@yahoo.fr 

 

When you make the payment, please specify to which email I need to send the Dropbox link. I don’t have an automated system to sell my presets, so I’ll send the link myself. Don’t worry if you don’t receive the link just after making the payment, I may be just sleeping, as where I live, it’s GMT+4 ;)

So, what are you getting for 30 bucks ?

- My full three banks of presets, most of which use third party IRs. This is the one I use, with the most tonal variations. All has been updated to Quantum 2.0. I took special care (read : hours and hours) on the MKIIC+, the VOX family of amps, and my clean Fender sounds. There is a significant number of brand new presets too (mostly with new or improved amp models etc)

- An alternate version of these three banks, using only free IRs (see the link to download them above) or stock ones. Easier to use if you didn’t buy any commercial IR libraries (but I recommend you to !)

- Free updates ! For at least 6 months (or let’s say, three firmware revisions), I will put updated versions of my banks in there, and new individual presets. Soon, I’ll upload a bunch of Pink Floyd presets, as I’m going to play in a Pink Floyd tribute band for a while. I’m also considering uploading standard tuning versions of some presets using harmonizers or the synth block, like the popular “atmosynth lead”. Of course if anything changes between the beta and final version of Quantum 2.0, I’ll make the necessary adjustments. Last but not least, I’ll program a few sounds with the upcoming Satriani amp.

- My collection of drive blocks, which you can load with Axe-Edit

- Some DI tracks recorded with my guitar, so you can check the difference with your own guitar

- A spreadsheet detailing my custom user IRs, and explaining many presets

- Cab-Lab 3 screenshots of my user IRs recipes, for those I can’t share because they are commercial

You can buy the commercial IRs I use here :

RW = Redwirez - http://www.redwirez.com/products.jsp
OH = Ownhammer - http://www.ownhammer.com/
FAS = Fractal cab packs - http://shop.fractalaudio.com/Software_Downloads_s/54.htm
TAF = The Amp Factory - http://www.theampfactory.com/ultrares-irs/
Messiah : http://www.criticalcabs.com/

cabIR.eu : http://www.cabir.eu/

Again, don’t forget to check .xls file listing my user cab selection, which presets use them, suggestions for alternate cabs, and details on some presets. You’ll notice that I don’t use some of these commercial in more than 1, 2 or 3 presets, so you may skip them. Unfortunately, some of the Ownhammer cabs are not sold anymore, like the HGE series.

Some more infos of the presets

I  made  all my presets 3 dB quieter than before, to have more headroom. I also took special care to balance the levels between all of them, not only those I use live, but all three banks.  There are two types of levels for my high gain sounds : rhythm and lead. Presets used for lead are around 3 dB louder.

Presets that were made for my high gain starting pack (with HGSP in the name) will have the “rhythm” level in scenes 1, 2 and 5, and “lead” level in scenes 3 and 4.

Boutique presets (end of bank B) are all made for lead playing so they are louder than the rhythm presets. Most Marshall presets too have the level set for lead playing.

The presets are sorted like this :

Bank A : my live presets, 5 scenes presets, fun and special presets

Bank B : high gain (sorted by amp model), high gain starting pack, blues/fusion

Bank C : Marshall, Vox, cleans, special effects.

Also note that I use a MFC-101 with bank size = 10, display offset = 1, and three expression pedals (exp 3 = volume, exp 2 and 1 usage varies but most of the time exp 2 is for wha or whammy, and exp 1 for various morphing effects. Switches 11-15 on my MFC select scenes.

Custom harmonizer settings (for Eb tuning)

"A tout le monde" preset : Custom scales 1 & 2
"Hurricane LD"  preset : Custom scales 9 and 10
"Arabic harmonies" preset : Custom scales 3 (Voice 1) and 4 (voice 2)
"Major penta harmonies" preset : Custom scales 5 (Voice 1) and 6 (Voice 2)

Custom scale 1 : starting from 'A' SHIFT : 3, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 2 : 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 3 : 4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3
Custom scale 4 : 7, 9, 9, 8, 7, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 6, 7
Custom scale 5 : 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4
Custom scale 6 : 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 8, 7, 7, 8, 7
Custom scale 9 : 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5
Custom scale 10 : 4, 5, 4, 3, 5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 5