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I thought might be cool to see how other users build their live presets and get some inspiration and ideas.
I'll start.
This is my current kitchen sink preset (for Helix Floor), the showcased one is based on the Park 75 brt amp and what you'll hear comes form a Peavy 2x12 with greenbacks powered by a seymour duncan powerstage 700. Is meant to be used in an rock/hard rock band.
Video is recorded with my phone so don't expect studio quality. It's actually shitty like my spoken english.
Layout use 10 stomp mode and take advantage of the new snapshot feature that allow to put 2 of them in the same FS.
The goal here is to have some variety of effects and minimize tap dancing (and presets numbers to maintain for whole setlist). I can (and do) build a copy of the same preset with a different set of effects (or a different amp) and cover more ground.
This preset use:
for the clean channel a boost, a phaser, a rotary, a delay and its own reverb settings (via snapshot);
for the dirty channel boost, phaser, octaver, delay and its own reverb settings.
I use 2 split paths to toggle clean and dirty channel and to route/group things assigned to upper and lower footswitch rows,
upper split is for clean ch effects, lower for dirty,
the snapshots (FS7) controls split point routing, noise gate on/off state, reverb settings and amp volume.
The clean channel is obtained lowering the volume in front of the amp with an eq block (that adds some highs too).
First eq block is a low cut a 70hz.
FS1 is assigned to a gain block for volume boosting for solos.
Expression pedal 1 controls mix and feedback of both delays
Expression pedal 2 controls a volume block and is used for swells (when you switch to exp2, exp 1 brings mix and feedback up at max values and leave them there while using exp2)
Expression pedal 2 controlsother fx parameters (all modulations speeds in this case)
Send block goes to the power amp and cab (in stereo just because I can, LOL).
I think that's all.
If anyone is interested here's the custom tone link. I use a YA M25 Mix1 IR for the direct out.
I'll start.
This is my current kitchen sink preset (for Helix Floor), the showcased one is based on the Park 75 brt amp and what you'll hear comes form a Peavy 2x12 with greenbacks powered by a seymour duncan powerstage 700. Is meant to be used in an rock/hard rock band.
Video is recorded with my phone so don't expect studio quality. It's actually shitty like my spoken english.
Layout use 10 stomp mode and take advantage of the new snapshot feature that allow to put 2 of them in the same FS.
The goal here is to have some variety of effects and minimize tap dancing (and presets numbers to maintain for whole setlist). I can (and do) build a copy of the same preset with a different set of effects (or a different amp) and cover more ground.
This preset use:
for the clean channel a boost, a phaser, a rotary, a delay and its own reverb settings (via snapshot);
for the dirty channel boost, phaser, octaver, delay and its own reverb settings.
I use 2 split paths to toggle clean and dirty channel and to route/group things assigned to upper and lower footswitch rows,
upper split is for clean ch effects, lower for dirty,
the snapshots (FS7) controls split point routing, noise gate on/off state, reverb settings and amp volume.
The clean channel is obtained lowering the volume in front of the amp with an eq block (that adds some highs too).
First eq block is a low cut a 70hz.
FS1 is assigned to a gain block for volume boosting for solos.
Expression pedal 1 controls mix and feedback of both delays
Expression pedal 2 controls a volume block and is used for swells (when you switch to exp2, exp 1 brings mix and feedback up at max values and leave them there while using exp2)
Expression pedal 2 controlsother fx parameters (all modulations speeds in this case)
Send block goes to the power amp and cab (in stereo just because I can, LOL).
I think that's all.
If anyone is interested here's the custom tone link. I use a YA M25 Mix1 IR for the direct out.
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for the new cover band, but I think I'm comfortable with how things are ATM. These amp tones have been the same since 2020, Essex A30 (Vox AC30 for you real-worlders) into an IR/Cab with a Creamback.
