As I did for the Axe-Fx II, and after a few weeks of hard work, I'm now selling presets for the Fractal Audio AX8, with Quantum 2.0x firmware.
These are conversions of my Axe-Fx presets, plus more than 50 exclusive/new presets, including a selection of my best tonematches, which were not in my Axe-Fx presets pack. There's 52 banks of 8 presets, in two versions : normal, the ones I use (and which uses commercial IRs), and alternate, which uses only stock cabs, or free cabs.
These presets are for a variety of styles, blues-rock, fusion, classic rock, heavy rock, metal, and even post-rock... My band cover songs of artists like Metallica, U2, Pink Floyd, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, Alter Bridge, Scorpions and many, many more so there's a lot of song-specific presets. I'm not trying to copy the guitar sound of the studio version of those songs, but use a sounds that works for me and my guitar for that.
There's also many presets using scenes, like those (note that this is a Axe-Fx demo with an older firmware but I was able to port them into the AX8) :
...and also all my "High gain starting pack" presets from the Axe-Fx. Please note that the 5 scenes works better if AX8 is not connected.
IMPORTANT
I use a lot of third party cabs. You will need them in your AX8 too, and at the same user spots, or many of my presets won't sound the same - or won't sound at all if the user spots are empty. As most of my main cabs are from free sources, I'm giving a separate download link for them, for free (else, it would be like I was "selling" them, when what I'm selling is the result of my presets creation work !). I also uses a few third party or stock presets, which I'm also sharing for free, even if they're also in my 52 banks. Here's the link for the free cabs and presets :
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/h3le9f05mkf3ju9/AADm4qsC-robc88hhxR-pfFJa?dl=0
If you use the "alternate" version of my banks, you won't need to buy anything. However, the "normal" versions of the banks are the ones that I use, and they uses many commercial IRs, mostly from Ownhammer and Fractal Audio Systems. I can't share those IRs, but there's screenshots of Cab-Lab 3 recipes in my commercial pack, and an .xls file which list them. This is for more experienced users, but if you learn how to do it, it's worth the effort !
Note that the two last banks, with the Pink Floyd presets, is a work in progress. I'm still in the process of tweaking those/building new ones for other songs, and I will update my Dropbox folder with new versions when available. I will also put any new preset I come with in the Dropbox folder.
The Dropbox folder also has a short video showing how to load my user IRs into the AX8.
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
"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
The price for the 52 banks is 40 US $ on thibderob@yahoo.fr on Paypal. Please specify to which email I must send the Dropbox link, as it may be different than the email you use for Paypal.
Send me any question/remark regarding those presets on thibderob@yahoo.fr or d3usxm4ch1n4@gmail.com
Fremen
EDIT : as requested, here's some details on the content of the banks :
Banks 1-3 : My main live presets. A few are song specific : Sweet child o’mine (Guns’n’Roses), Diary of Jane (Breaking Benjamin), A tout le monde (Megadeth), Rock you like a hurricane (Scorpions), Open your eyes (Alter Bridge), Blurry (Puddle of Mud) but most are generic, go-to presets.
Banks 4-8 : More song specific presets for live use : Numb (Linkin Park), Enter Sandman and Nothing else matters (Metallica), Final countdown (Europe), Ashes (Pain of Salvation), six U2 songs, Life (Devin Townsend), Boulevard of broken dreams (Green Day), Black hole sun (Soundgarden), Cry for you (Andy Timmons), Sultans of swing (Dire Straits) and Owner of a lonely heart (Yes).
Banks 9-10 : Various high gain presets, mainly for leads, and a Pull me under (Dream Theater) tonematch (from Petrucci’s mini MKV Youtube demo).
Banks 11-13 : Five scenes presets. Scene 1 : clean, scene 2 : edge of breakup, scene 3 : crunch, scene 4 : lead 1, scene 5 : lead 2 (more gain)
Banks 14-16 : three more "five scenes" presets, and various "fun" presets, like the popular "atmosynth" (without the bass note of the original, as there’s only one synth block in the AX8), the more recent "fun looper", and various stuff using whammys and harmonizers etc.
Banks 17-19 : the High Gain Starting Pack presets. Scene 1 : rhythm, scene 2 : crunch, scene 3 : lead, scene 4 : softer /warmer lead, scene 5 : recording. I replaced the Multiband Compressor used in scene 5 in the Axe-Fx by a Graphic EQ.
Banks 20-28 : high gain presets sorted by amp model (plus a few mid gain ones, like AC/DC and Morgan fusion)
Banks 29-32 : blues/fusion and boutique presets. Think SRV, Robben Ford, Carlton, Clapton, Santana etc.
Bank 33 : the last 4 blues/fusion presets, and the first four Marshall presets
Banks 34-35 : Marshall presets
Bank 36 : end of Marshall presets, beginning of Vox and Vox-like amps presets.
Bank 37 : end of Vox-like presets, a few special effects distorted presets.
Banks 38-40 : clean amp presets
Banks 41-44 : special effects presets
Banks 45-50 : tonematch presets (exclusive to the AX8, they’re not in my Axe-Fx package), and 11 new presets also exclusive to the AX8
Banks 51-52 : Pink Floyd presets. This is a work in progress, I will update them constantly and add new ones in the coming weeks/months. A few are from the ex-Brit Floyd guitar player but I’m in the process of modifying them, they’re here just as references
Note that all presets with “*” or “**” at the end of the file name are tweaked stock presets (sometimes available only in the Axe-Fx II, not the AX8), or presets from other users which I tweaked to my liking. As I’m not the original author, I also shared them for free in a separate download. All the "special effects" presets which were stock on the Axe-Fx II have my own amp+cab settings
EDIT 30.04.2016 : Please note that in the new 3.02 Quantum firmware, there's this :
"Fixed a bug that allowed AMP models imported from the AxeFx to leave a controller attached to the OUTPUT LEVEL parameter modifier (not supported in the AX8). NOTE: the controller is now removed by the AMP block."
For that reason I posted an update. What's new :
All the 5 scenes presets have been fixed, and there's three more presets using the Friedman BE/HBE/Dirty Shirley (bank 58)
All presets using the Friedman models have been checked
Small volume tweaks in some presets in banks 1 & 2
Minor tweaks in my Pink Floyd presets (banks 51 & 52)
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