Axe-FX III - AC30 Brilliant
Axe-FX III - AC30 Brilliant
Firmware 25 or later required. This preset has two slightly different setups of the new AC30 Brilliant amp model hard panned left/right.
Scenes:
Bright Single Coils i.e. vintage strat/tele pickups
Dark Single Coils i.e. modern single coils e.g. Lollar Special T, Pioneer Longhorn
P90s
Filtertrons
Bright Humbuckers (e.g. Vintage/Modern PAFs)
Dark Humbuckers (e.g. Pioneer Pope, Suhr Thornbucker)
unused
unused
Ambient Pad (for volume swells)
The scenes have Scene Controller 1 assigned to various parameters on the preset. When I’m building a preset for a song I’ll set the scene controller value for the particular pickup I’m using to all the scenes (using the “Set All” function in the editor > Controllers > Scene Ctrl 1+2). Then I’ll use the per preset footswitches to set up each scene i.e. Intro, verse, chorus, lead, pad, etc.
Per preset footswitches:
Drive 1 channel select (A-D have increasing amounts of gain)
These 4 channels are my stage 1 drive sounds
Drive 1 on/off
Drive 2 on/off
Hold to cycle channels A-C. A is a Klon, B is a RAT, C is a Fuzz Face
Can be stacked or used standalone. I’ll usually stack the klon with Drive 1 for leads, but I use the RAT and Fuzz Face standalone
Delay 2 on/off (1/8th note)
Hold to cycle channels A-C for increasing mix/feedback settings
Set this to 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 as necessary
Delay 2 on/off (Dotted 8th note)
Hold to cycle channels A-C for increasing mix/feedback settings
Set this to dotted quarter, dotted 8th, or dotted 16th as necessary
Reverb channel decrement D-A
HOLD to increment channels A-D. Channel A is a small plate, D is a big cloud
Unused
Post-amp clean boost (I usually only use this if the band is big but there’s a cleaner lead part because I’ve built slight volume increases into the gain staging anyway)
Chorus 1 on/off
Hold to cycle between channels A-C. A is a mild chorus, B is a deeper/wetter chorus, C is a vibrato
Tremolo 1 on/off
Hold to toggle channels A/B for different speeds & levels of intensity
Plex Verb on/off
This is the “worship reverb” sound, I use it for clean parts and volume swells
Pitch 1 on/off
Hold to cycle through channels A-C. A is octave up, B is whammy, and C is virtual capo for real-time Eb or D standard tuning for example.
Setup Notes:
The input is set to Input 1, the output is set to output 1.
Please use the PER PRESET footswitch layout to access all the per preset footswitch assignments.
This preset is configured to work with the Fractal FC12 controller, but all the important gain staging will be present on the FC6 as well.
Mono users: This preset has a massive stereo image but is mono-compatible, just bypass the Enhancer block. In order to get the sound of both amps to FOH, in your global settings navigate to I/O > Audio Tab > “Output 1 Configuration” > Mode, and set it to “SUM L+R”.