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About the Axe-Fx II factory presets
- Models:
- Mark I and II: 3 preset banks (A B C).
- XL and XL+: 6 banks (A B C D E F). Banks D, E and F are empty.
- Factory presets updates: Fractal Audio posts new versions of the factory preset banks on the Support page from time to time. Use Fractal-Bot to upload preset banks to your Axe-Fx. Or use the editor to upload selected presets from the banks.
Factory presets demonstration
Overwriting factory presets
- When saving your own presets, you have to overwrite factory presets on the Axe-Fx, unless you have a XL (Banks D and up are empty).
- You can restore the factory presets by downloading them from Fractalaudio.com and loading them into your Axe-Fx II using Fractal-Bot or Axe-Edit.
Auditioning factory presets
- The Axe-Fx is sensitive to the type of guitar you're using in regard to presets. For example, use a guitar equipped with single coil pickups when auditioning Fender amp presets.
- When hitting the strings in a normal manner on a guitar equipped with single coils, clean factory presets should not distort. When really digging in the strings, especially using a high-output humbucker, some clean presets may distort. Don't worry, they should probably be getting distorted, based on their settings. If you don't like that, just turn down Drive or Master Volume or Input Trim in the Amp block.
- Preset output levels can vary from preset to preset. If a factory preset makes the Out 1 Clip LED blink, its overall signal level is too hot. Turn down Level in the Amp block.
- If possible, play the factory presets in stereo to hear the presets at their best.
- If you're running mono and audio output is set to “Sum L+R”, phase cancellation may occur. This can happen if the preset contains an Enhancer block in Classic Mode, or a micro delay in the Cab block. Or when a preset contains a Delay block with the Phase Rev parameter engaged.
- When using output mode "Copy L>R" you'll lose the part of the signal that's hardwired to the right channel. That might be a Ping Pong delay, or a stereo Cab block with both sides hard-panned.
- Cliff: "The presets were dialed in loud so as to be sure the Fletcher-Munson effect did not influence the sound." source
List of factory presets (Dec 2, 2016)
Bank A:
- 59 Bassguy
- 65 Bassguy
- Brownface
- Deluxe Verb
- Double Verb
- A-Class 15
- Top Boost
- Plexi Normal
- Plexi 50W Treble
- Plexi 100W Treble
- Brit 800
- Hipower Brilliant
- USA Clean
- USA Lead
- Recto Vintage
- Recto Modern
- Euro Blue
- Euro Blue Modern
- Shiver Clean
- Shiver Lead
- Euro Uber
- Solo 100 Crunch
- Solo 100 Lead
- Friedman BE
- Friedman HBE
- Vibrato-King
- CAE3+ Clean
- CAE 3+SE Rhythm
- CAE 3+SE Lead
- Mr. Z 38
- Wrecker Rocket
- Savageness
- Cameron Low
- Cameron High
- FAS Lead 1
- Tucana
- FAS Modern
- Das Metall
- ODS-100 Lead
- The Brown Sound
- Buttery
- Boutique 1
- Supertweed
- Brit JVM OD1
- Brit JVM OD2
- Blanknship Leeds
- Super Verb
- Citrus
- Carol Ann
- JTM 45
- Hot Kitty
- Two-Stone
- Spawn Nitrous
- Brit Silver
- Herbie 2-
- Dizzy VH4 Ch 3
- 5153 Blue
- 5153 Red
- Atomica
- Deluxe Tweed
- Dirty Shirley
- Fox ODS
- Nuclear Tone
- 6160 Block
- 6160 II
- Spawn Q-Rod
- Wrecked
- Brit Pre
- Badger 18
- Brit 800 Mod
- Dizzy VH4 Ch 4
- Bassman About 2 Explode
- Band Commander
- ODS100 Clean
- Junior Blues
- Can You Hear it Ring?
- Jumped Plexi
- Studio Lead
- Dee Cee 30
- Whole Lotta
- Fuzz Tweed
- Hell's Glockenspiels
- Petrucci Rhythm
- Prince Tone
- Comet Concourse
- Try Axes
- Elegant Gypsy
- 100W Plexi
- Euro Red
- Euro Red Modern
- Bludojai Lead
- JM45 Blues Lead
- Herbie 3
- Triptik Classic
- Triptik Modern
- EJ Clean
- Who's Next?
- Thick & Chunky
- Round Lead
- Studio Clean
- Solo 99 Lead
- Super Verb Crunch
- Djentlemanly
- Mr. Benson
- AC-20 Deluxe Treble
- Ruby Rocket
- Machine Gun
- Funk #49
- Limelight
- EVH Circa 1982
- Teh Brootalz
- 1959 SLP
- Angle Severe
- Highway 66
- Deluxe Tape
- Sweet Child
- So Many Roads
- Blues Aroncino
- Jim and Leo
- Cork Sniffers
- Still Got the Blues
- Back Line
- Mark Day's HBE
- Andy's Message
- Solo 100
- Dual Clean
- Plexi-AC
- Rackmount Preamps X2
Bank B:
- Galaxy Formation
- Crunch Chorus
- Electro-Sweep
- Jet Flanger
- Ambience
- Detuned Wahs
- Crystal Reverb
- Pentalizer II
- TZF Flanger
- Orient Express
- Black Hole
- Detuned Descent
- Enumerating Ravens
- Introspection
- Flanged Echos
- Meet the Cytherians
- Pong Chorus
- Emerald Ocean
- Intrigue (C Minor)
- Crawling in the Dark
- Ultraverb
- Phaser Paradise 2
- Smokey Jazz
- Ballet Slippers
- Velvet Sun
- Lonely Heart Solo
- A Major Harmony
- Screaming Meanie
- Asian Documentary
- Delay Octoplex
- Wind Chimes 2
- Valentine Massacre
- Chimey Echoes
- 1/8note FilterTrem
- Poltergeist Pig
- Organic
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Pitchmodtrem
- Albert's Lead
- Centrifugue
- Crystal Echos
- The Wood Nymphs
- Avant Garde Delay
- Phaser + Rotary
- Clean Pop Rhythm
- Gated Reverb
- MultiComp Plexi
- Crossover L:Low R:Hi
- Sweep Resonator
- Satan's Hollow (e-)
- regnalF esreveR
- Vertigo
- Cavernous
- Dream Sequence
- Thru-Zero Null Flanger
- Stereo Tape Delay 2
- Lazy Man`s Arppegio
- Frenetica
- Heavenly Echo
- Tremverb
- The Abyss
- Root + 3rd + 5th (C)
- Micro-Pitchshift
- Rubber Biscuit
- Diffused Phaser
- I'm Nationwide
- Watercolors
- Event Horizon
- Perceptual Reverb
- Sweep Band Delay 2
- Rainbow Splash
- Thick Chorus
- The Jupiter 2
- Tracking Ringmod
- Flangellation
- Undulation
- Serenity Now!
- Haunting Echoes
- Rockabilly Hot Rod
- Ambient Swirl
- 6th Stone from Sun
- Echoes from God
- In a Funk
- No Quarter
- Flanked by Flangers
- Wide Chorus Double
- Surf's Up
- Flippin' The Switch
- Ascension
- Wandering Delays
- Heavily Processed
- Boutique Battle
- Frogtone Irie
- Nameless Streets
- Fat Solo Lead 2
- Rainy Nights
- Stays Crunchy
- Arpeggiator Madness
- Class-A Brethren
- Bond... James Bond
- Zamfir?
- Screaming Plexi 2
- Smokin'
- Choral Canyon
- Envelope Phaser
- Velvet Sun 2
- Super Phaser
- Flangetastic
- Wind Chimes
- Year of the City 2274
- 5 octaves of fun
- Tape Distortion
- Atmosphere
- Dual Detune
- Diatonic Harmony (C)
- Gamelan Night
- Horror Movie
- Wide Echoplex Wash
- Funky Synth
- Track Wah
- Music Box
- Diatonic 3rd + Oct Amaj
- S/H Band Delay
- Sweep Band Delay
- Desert Breeze
- Flashback
- Diffused Mod Delay
- Detune Slap
Bank C:
- Squashed
- Auto Swell PongVerb
- Random Wah
- Lounge Lizards
- Sweep Echo
- By Your Command
- Brittle Comp Rhythm
- Synth Lead
- Slow Rotary
- The Planets
- Glass Castles
- Scintillating
- Phenomena
- Traffic Jam
- Katie's Song
- Detune Plexi
- Bouncing Echoes
- Bad
- Dripping Wet
- Rush Hour
- Get Down Syndrome
- Comp Clean
- New Country
- Panning Delays
- Down Full Step
- Dirty Tape Echo
- In a Fixx
- Uber Chugga
- Quad Chorus
- '63 Tube Verb Box
- Yngwie
- Syncopated 2
- Run Like Heck
- Bass Ackwards
- Stratosphere
- Rotary Band Delay
- Melancholia
- BandTaps
- Shifted Delay Thingy
- Modern Eddie
- PCM70 Hall
- Mr. Gilmour Lead
- Soundtrack
- Bright Plate
- Juicy Lead
- Ganymede
- Forty Miles
- Freeway Jam
- Beef Supreme
- Vintage Spring
- 2290 Tap Delay
- A Clockwork Banana
- Thor's Hammer + Saw
- East Wes
- Bayou Country
- Prometheus WV
- Ned Beatty
- Long Verb
- A Kind of Dream (C)
- Spandex & Hairspray
- Opposed Notches
- Modern Jazz
- Shiva on the Rocks
- Walking on the Moon
- Pulse Delay
- Stone in Love
- CE-1 Chorus
- Four Detuners
- Triangle Flange
- DreamVerb
- Squeaky Clean
- Forlorn
- Ambient Guitar
- Eruption
- Band Delays
- Mr. Floyd
- Man In The Box
- Broken Heart
- Solar Eclipse
- Comb Delays
- ABCD=ms,FB,mod.Ext1=Warp
- Capricorn 1
- Underwater
- Circular Delays 2
- Blitz II
- The Final Frontier
- All Wet 8-Voice
- C Major Shifts
- Fifths in Space
- Sea of Tranquility
- Corbomite Maneuver
- The Infield
- China Syndrome
- Clock Tower
- Stereo Shift + Verb
- Flange-Chorus-Echo-Verb
- Echo Room
- Tumbleweeds
- W@rped Vinyl (ABCD)
- 80's Clean
- Vintage Digital Delay
- Sultans
- RockMeOn Clean
- High Landrons
- Lunar Eclipse
- 2290 Delay 2
- Chorused Reverb
- FilteRing Funk
- PopGate '88
- Expanding Delay
- Echo Deva 2.1 /1=FB
- Cliffs of Dover
- Modulation Mayhem
- Damage Nexus
- Gnome-Mans Land 2.0
- Night Creatures
- Farfegnugen
- Jump Gate
- Fazed Delays
- Diamonique Rain
- Happy Place
- Echo Room 2
- Space Verb 2
- Direct Inject
- Ham & Eggs
- OUT1->FOH OUT2->CAB
- Amp Matching Template
- Bypass
Amps and cabs used in the factory presets
- List of amps and cabs used in the stock presets.
- You can also use FracTool to see which cabs are being used in which presets.