Big, Fat, Wet, Soupy Preset

[bsd512]

The other day I set out to make a big thick wet preset just to experiment. I didn't have any particular tone in mind - mainly do something different and make it pretty nutty. It's a dual amp preset with an Engl Fireball panned mostly left and a Vox AC30 panned mostly right, each with their own mis-matched cabinets - hey, it was supposed to be nutty! After panning those and setting the levels for left and right in headphones, it feeds into the crazy 3 OSC Synth, and on into a couple of delays and a thick wet reverb.

 

I wasn't expecting too much, mainly I was just experimenting and wanted the delays to match in the BPM and harmonize preceding notes, and so forth, thinking maybe I could get a rhythm going with the delay repeats with some harmonizing going on.

 

Anyway ... here's a sound sample of it along with a link to it on CustomTone for anyone interested. Note - the recording below is direct from the Helix into my DAW. And there are only two tracks on this - guitar and drums. And on the guitar, this is a single play-thru take, no overdubbing, punch-ins, or anything like that. No bass, no synth, nothing, except one guitar and this preset. I was pretty amazed at how huge it sounded. I didn't spend much time on the recording, I was fighting with Logic and a computer upgrade at the time but managed to get this recording. So it's pretty rough around the edges.

 

Check it out ... if you're so inclined. Crank it up in good headphones.

 

If you do like it and want to try it, the preset is linked below. Just adjust your BPM to whatever you want, and the delay time-division to whatever is appropriate - they are set to 1/4 notes, but you'll want to set those to match up with whatever your playing and tempo using BPM and time-divisions on the two delays. Also, this really needs to have stereo output. If in doubt, try some good headphones.

 

https://line6.com/customtone/tone/4106209/