FM9 Turbo + Firmware 8.02 or later required. This preset has the new AC30 Brilliant amp model and the Deluxe Reverb Vibrato channel hard panned left/right.

Scenes:

1. Bright Single Coils i.e. vintage strat/tele pickups

2. Dark Single Coils i.e. modern single coils e.g. Lollar Special T, Pioneer Longhorn

3. Bright P90s / Filtertrons (Veritas Polecat, Gretsch Blacktop)

4. Darker P90s

5. Bright Humbuckers (e.g. Vintage/Modern PAFs)

6. Dark Humbuckers (e.g. Pioneer Pope, Suhr Thornbucker)

7. unused

8. unused

9. 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:

1. Drive 1 channel select (A-D have increasing amounts of gain)

   1. These 4 channels are my stage 1 drive sounds

2. Drive 1 on/off

3. Drive 2 on/off

   1. Hold to cycle channels A-C. A is a Klon, B is a RAT, C is a Fuzz Face

   2. 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

4. Delay 1 on/off (1/8th note)

   1. Hold to cycle channels A-C for increasing mix/feedback settings

   2. Set this to 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 as necessary

5. Delay 2 on/off (Dotted 8th note)

   1. Hold to cycle channels A-C for increasing mix/feedback settings

   2. Set this to dotted quarter, dotted 8th, or dotted 16th as necessary

6. Reverb channel decrement D-A

   1. HOLD to increment channels A-D. Channel A is a small plate, D is a big cloud

7. Compressor channel cycle A-C

8. 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)

9. Rotary 1 on/off

   1. Hold to cycle between channels A-C. A is a strong rotary sound, B is milder, C is even less strong

10. Tremolo 1 on/off

    1. Hold to cycle between channels A-C for different speeds & levels of intensity

11. Plex Verb on/off

    1. This is the “worship reverb” sound, I use it for clean parts and volume swells

12. Pitch 1 on/off

    1. Hold to cycle through channels A-C. A is octave up, B is octave down (Boss OC-2), and C is virtual capo for real-time Eb or D standard tuning for example.

Setup Notes:

Please use the PER PRESET footswitch layouts to access all the per preset footswitch assignments. You can find my FM9 layouts here.

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”.