Factory presets

Factory presets

The factory presets for each device can be downloaded here.

Fractal Audio periodically updates the factory presets for devices which are not discontinued.

Installing factory presets

Use Fractal-Bot to upload factory preset banks to the hardware.

To select and upload individual presets from a bank, use the software editor.

Sound of factory presets

Just like real amps, the processors are sensitive to the type of guitar you're using.

When hitting the strings in a normal manner on a guitar equipped with single coils, factory presets with clean amp models should not distort a lot. When really digging in the strings, especially using a high output humbucker, clean presets may distort. Don't worry, that's probably normal behavior. If you don't like it, just turn down Drive or Master Volume or Input Trim in the Amp block.

Preset output levels can vary from preset to preset. When a factory preset makes the Out 1 Clip LED blink, the overall signal level in the digital domain is too hot. To solve this, turn down Level in the Amp block or Main in the Global EQ.

If possible, play 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.

"The presets were dialed in loud so as to be sure the Fletcher-Munson effect did not influence the sound." source

Factory presets: number and list

Axe-Fx III

The Axe-Fx III has 512 presets, divided in 3 banks. Some presets have multiple configured scenes and channels.

All factory presets use Input 1 and Output 1.

0 59 Bassguy

1 65 Bassguy

2 Brownface

3 Deluxe Verb

4 Double Verb

5 A-Class 15

6 Top Boost

7 Prince Tone

8 Plexi 50W

9 Plexi 100W

10 Brit 800

11 Hipower

12 USA Mk IV

13 USA IIC+

14 Recto 1

15 Recto 2

16 Euro

17 AC-20 Deluxe

18 Shiver

19 Vibrato-King

20 Euro Uber

21 Solo 100

22 Super Verb

23 Friedman BE-100

24 Champlifier

25 Tremolo Deluxe

26 CA3+

27 5153

28 Vibrato Deluxe

29 Mr. Z 38

30 Wrecker Rocket

31 Angle Severe

32 Spawn Q-Rod OD-1

33 Cameron CCV

34 FAS Lead 1

35 Tucana

36 FAS Modern

37 Das Metall

38 ODS-100

39 The Brown Sound

40 Buttery

41 Boutique

42 Supertweed

43 Brit JVM OD1

44 Brit JVM OD2

45 Blanknship Leeds

46 Royale With Cheese

47 Citrus RV50

48 Carol Ann OD-2

49 JTM 45

50 Hot Kitty

51 Two-Stone J35

52 Spawn Nitrous

53 Brit Silver

54 Herbie

55 Dweezil's Bassguy

56 Ma, the Meatloaf...

57 5F8 Tweed

58 Atomica

59 Deluxe Tweed

60 Dirty Shirley

61 Fox ODS

62 Nuclear Tone

63 6160 Block

64 6160 II

65 Spawn Q-Rod OD-2

66 Wrecked

67 Brit Pre

68 Badger 18

69 Brit AFS100

70 Dizzy VH4

71 Bassman About 2 Explode

72 Band Commander

73 ODS-100 HRM

74 Vibrato Verb

75 TX Star

76 Jumped Plexi

77 Studio Lead

78 Dee Cee 30

79 Whole Lotta

80 Fuzz Tweed

81 Hell's Glockenspiels

82 Petrucci Rig

83 Solo 88

84 Comet Concourse

85 Try Axes

86 Elegant Gypsy

87 Capt Hook

88 JS410

89 Corncob

90 Bludojai Lead

91 JM45 Blues Lead

92 Jr. Blues

93 Triptik

94 FAS Hot Rod

95 EJ Clean

96 Who's Next?

97 Thick & Chunky

98 Tucana II

99 Studio Clean

100 Solo 99

101 Super Verb Crunch

102 Djentlemanly

103 Alien Surfer

104 Citrus A30

105 Ruby Rocket

106 Machine Gun

107 Bogfish

108 LimeLight

109 Glass Lead

110 Edge of Breakup

111 Get Your Kicks

112 Subtle Blues

113 Chainsaw 88

114 Deluxe Tape

115 Destructive Appetite

116 So Many Roads

117 Tiny Terrier

118 Jim and Leo

119 Cork Sniffers

120 Still Blue

121 Back Line

122 Small Box

123 Andy's Message

124 Delay Lead

125 Dual Clean

126 Plexi-AC

127 Rackmount Preamps X2

128 Galaxy Formation

129 Crunch Chorus

130 Electro-Sweep

131 Jet Flanger

132 Ambience

133 Detuned Wahs

134 Crystal Reverb

135 Pentalizer III

136 TZF Flanger

137 Orient Express

138 Black Hole

139 Detuned Descent

140 Enumerating Ravens

141 Introspection

142 Flanged Echos

143 Meet the Cytherians

144 Pong Chorus

145 Emerald Ocean

146 Intrigue (C Minor)

147 Crawling in the Dark

148 Ultraverb

149 Phaser Paradise 3

150 Smokey Jazz

151 Ballet Slippers

152 Velvet Sun 2

153 Lonely Heart Solo

154 A Major Harmony 2

155 Screaming Meanie

156 Asian Documentary

157 Delay Octoplex

158 Wind Chimes

159 Valentine's Massacre

160 Chimey Echos

161 1/8 Filter Trem

162 Poltergeist Pig

163 Organic

164 Bohemian Rhapsody

165 Pitchmod Trem

166 Albert's Lead

167 Centrifuge

168 Crystal Echos

169 The Wood Nymphs

170 Avant Garde Delays 2

171 Phaser Plus Rotary

172 Clean Pop Rhythm

173 Gated Reverb

174 MultiComp Plexi

175 Plexi BiAmp

176 Sweep Resonator

177 Satan's Hollow (Emin)

178 regnalF esreveR

179 Vertigo

180 Cavernous

181 Dream Sequence

182 Zero Flangers X&Y

183 Stereo Tape Delay 2

184 Lazy Man's Arpeggio

185 Frenetica

186 Heavenly Echo

187 TremVerb

188 The Abyss

189 Root 3rd 5th (in C)

190 Micro Pitchshift

191 Rubber Biscuit

192 Diffused Phaser

193 I'm Nationwide

194 Watercolors

195 Event Horizon

196 Perceptual Reverb

197 Sweep Band Delay 2

198 Rainbow Splash

199 Thick Chorus

200 The Jupiter 2

201 Tracking Ringmod

202 Flangellation

203 Undulation

204 Serenity Now!

205 Haunting Echoes

206 Rockabilly Hot Rod

207 Ambient Swirl

208 6th Stone from Sun

209 Echoes from God

210 In a Funk

211 No Quarter

212 Flanked by Flangers

213 Wide Chorus Double

214 Surf's Up

215 Flippin' the Switch

216 Ascension

217 Wandering Delays

218 Heavily Processed

219 Boutique Battle

220 Frogtone Irie

221 Nameless Streets

222 Fat Solo Lead 2

223 Rainy Nights

224 Stays Crunchy

225 Arpeggiator M@ness (Bmi)

226 Class-A Brethren

227 Bond...James Bond

228 Zamfir

229 Screaming Plexi 3

230 Smokin

231 Choral Canyon

232 Envelope Phaser

233 Velvet Sun 2

234 Super Phaser

235 Flangetastic

236 Wind Chimes

237 Year of the City 2274

238 PolyOctaveGen

239 Tape Distortion

240 Atmosphere

241 Dual Detune

242 Diatonic Harmony (C)

243 Gamelan Night

244 Horror Movie

245 Wlde Echoplex Wash

246 Funky Synth

247 Track Wah

248 Music Box 2

249 Diatonic 3rd + Oct Amaj

250 S/H Band Delay

251 Sweep Band Delays

252 Desert Breeze

253 Flashback

254 Diffused Mod Delay

255 Detune Slap

256 Squashed

257 Auto Swell PongVerb

258 Random Wah

259 Lounge Lizards

260 Sweep Echo

261 By Your Command

262 Brittle Comp Rhythm

263 Synth Lead

264 Rotary Rate Scenes

265 The Planets 2

266 Glass Castles

267 Scintillating

268 Phenomena

269 Traffic Jam

270 Katie's Song

271 Detune Plexi

272 Bouncing Echoes

273 Bad

274 Dripping Wet 2

275 Rush Hour

276 Get Down Syndrome

277 Comp Clean

278 New Country

279 Delay Pan Alpha

280 Down A Full Step

281 Dirty Tape Echo

282 In a Fixx

283 Uber Chugga 2

284 Tri-Chorus

285 '63 Tube Verb Box

286 Yngwie

287 Syncopated 2

288 Run Like Heck

289 Bass Ackwards III

290 Stratosphere

291 Rotary Band Delay

292 Melancholia

293 Shifted BandTaps

294 Shifted Delay Thingy

295 Modern Eddie

296 PCM70 Hall

297 Mr. Gilmour Lead

298 Soundtrack

299 Bright Plate

300 Juicy Lead

301 Ganymede

302 Forty Miles

303 Freeway Jam

304 Beef Supreme

305 Phase Fuzz

306 2290 Tap Delay

307 A Clockwork Banana

308 Thor's Hammer + Saw

309 East Wes

310 Bayou Country

311 Prometheus WV

312 Ned Beatty

313 Longer Verb - 8 Scenes

314 A Kind of Dream (C)

315 Spandex & Hairspray

316 Opposed Notches

317 Modern Jazz

318 Shiva on the Rocks

319 Walking on the Moon

320 Pulse Delay

321 Stone in Love

322 CE-1 Chorus/Vibe

323 Detuners

324 Triangle Flange

325 DreamVerb

326 Stereo Death Fuzz - Scenes

327 Forlorn

328 Ambient Guitar Scenes

329 Eruption - Scenes

330 Band Delays

331 Mr. Floyd

332 Man in the Box

333 Broken Heart

334 Solar Eclipse 2

335 Comb Delays

336 Time After Time

337 Capricorn 1

338 Underwater

339 Circular Delays 2

340 Blitz III

341 The Final Frontier 2

342 All Wet 8-Voice

343 C Major Shifts

344 Fifths in Space

345 Sea of Tranquility

346 Corbomite Maneuver

347 The Infield

348 China Syndrome

349 Clock Tower

350 Stereo Shift + Verb

351 Flange-Chorus-Echo-Verb

352 Echo Room

353 Tumbleweeds

354 W@rped Vinyl

355 80s Clean

356 Vintage Digital Delay

357 Sultans

358 RockMeOn Clean

359 High Landrons

360 Lunar Eclipse

361 Crystal Scions

362 Jeff Gets Ready

363 Supermassive Faux Bass

364 PopGate '88

365 Expanding Delay

366 Echo Deva 2.1 /1=FB

367 Cliffs of Dover

368 Modulation Mayhem

369 Damage Nexus

370 Gnome-Mans Land 2.0

371 Night Creatures

372 Farfegnugen

373 Jump Gate

374 Phazed Delays

375 Diamonique Rain

376 Happy Place

377 Echo Room 2

378 Space Verb 2

379 Direct Inject

380 Ham & Eggs

381 OUT1->FOH / OUT2->CAB

382 Amp Matching Template

383 BYPASS

Axe-Fx II

• Mark I and II: 3 banks of factory presets (A B C).
• XL and XL+: 6 banks of factory presets (A B C D E F). Banks D, E and F are empty.

Cooper Carter demonstrates factory presets.

Here's a list of amps and cabs used in the stock Axe-Fx II presets, by AxeFxTutorials. You can also use FracTool to see which cabs are used in presets.

The meaning of titles of Axe-Fx II factory presets.

July 2017 factory presets:

Bank A:

Bank B:

Bank C:

AX8

The AX8 provides basic amp presets in banks 1 - 16, and utility presets and templates (including a preset for acoustic guitar) in bank 64.

1-1 DoubleVerb
1-2 Brownface
1-3 Top Boost
1-4 Badger 18
1-5 1959 SLP
1-6 USA IIC+
1-7 Friedman BE
1-8 Friedman HBE
2-1 DeluxeVerb
2-2 USA Clean
2-3 65 Bassguy
2-4 AC-20 Treble
2-5 Wrecked Express
2-6 Brit 800
2-7 Recto Vintage
2-8 Recto Modern
3-1 EJ Clean
3-2 Boutique 1
3-3 A-Class 15
3-4 Supertweed
3-5 Jumped Plexi
3-6 5153 Blue
3-7 5153 Red
3-8 Savageness
4-1 Super Verb
4-2 Nuclear Tone Clean
4-3 Mr. Z 38
4-4 BritSilver
4-5 Citrus
4-6 TX Star (X=Ld Y=Cln)
4-7 Dirty Shirley
4-8 Euro Uber
5-1 5F1 Tweed EC
5-2 PrinceTone
5-3 Junior Blues
5-4 Deluxe Tweedv 5-5 59 Bassguy
5-6 Band Commander
5-7 Vibra-King
5-8 Super Crunch
6-1 Plexi Normal
6-2 Plexi 100W Treble
6-3 1987x Treble
6-4 1987x Jump LM
6-5 Brit 800 Mod
6-6 The Brown Sound
6-7 Brit JVM OD1
6-8 Brit JVM OD2v 7-1 ODS-100 Clean
7-2 ODS-100 Lead
7-3 ODS-100 HRM
7-4 Carol Ann OD-2
7-5 Fox ODS
7-6 Two-Stone
7-7 Triptik Classic
7-8 Triptik Modern
8-1 Herbie 2+
8-2 Herbie 3
8-3 Dizzy VH4 Ch 3
8-4 Dizzy VH4 Ch 4
8-5 6160 Block
8-6 6160 II
8-7 Angle Severe 2
8-8 Das Metall
9-1 Shiver Clean
9-2 Hipower Brilliant
9-3 JTM 45
9-4 Dee Cee 30
9-5 Euro Blue
9-6 Euro Blue Modern
9-7 Euro Red
9-8 Euro Red Modern
10-1 CAE3+ Clean
10-2 CAE 3+SE Rhythm
10-3 CAE 3+SE Lead
10-4 Brit Pre Lead
10-5 Try Axial
10-6 SOLO100 Crunch
10-7 SOLO100 Lead
10-8 Solo 99 Lead
11-1 Highway 66
11-2 RubyRocket
11-3 Buttery
11-4 Tucana
11-5 Comet Concourse
11-6 Wrecker Rocket
11-7 Blanknship Leeds
11-8 Hot Kitty
12-1 Cameron Low
12-2 Cameron High
12-3 Spawn QRod
12-4 Spawn Nitrous
12-5 Atomica
12-6 FAS Modern
12-7 Djentlemanly
12-8 Teh Brootalz
13-1 MachineGun
13-2 WholeLotta
13-3 Funk #49
13-4 Elegant Gypsy
13-5 Hell's Glockenspiels
13-6 Destructive Appetite
13-7 Still Got the Blues
13-8 So Many Roads
14-1 Andy's JC
14-2 Mr. Benson
14-3 Who's Next?
14-4 Limelight
14-5 Blues Aroncino
14-6 Petrucci Rhythm
14-7 Mark Day Solo
14-8 EVH 90s
15-1 Round Lead
15-2 USA Lead
15-3 Rack Pre Lead
15-4 StudioLead
15-5 JM45 Blues Lead
15-6 Bludojai Lead
15-7 ShiverLead
15-8 FAS Lead 1
16-1 LooperDemo
16-2 Thick & Chunky
16-3 Bassman About2 Explode
16-4 Citrus Lead
16-5 Crystal Echoes
16-6 Black Hole
16-7 Prometheus
16-8 1967 All Over Again

64-1 THRU
64-2 CAB-LAB SCRATCH
64-3 OUT1:FR OUT2:AMP+CAB
64-4 AMP X/Y SWITCH
64-5 FOR ACOUSTIC GUITAR
64-6 DUAL INPUT MAG PIEZO
64-7 SCENE CONTROLLERS
64-8 MUTE

FX8

Cooper Carter compiled a list of all FX8 factory presets, including the amps (traditional and amp models) that were used when creating them. Download the list (version: August 2015).

If you put the FX8 in front of your amp, you won't experience the factory presets as they are intended. Because some of these are configured for POST only (FX8 in the effects loop of an amp) or 4CM. An easy way to overcome this, is to use a patch cable to connect OUT [PRE] L MONO to IN [POST] L, and connect OUT [POST] L to your amp.

Some factory presets are configured for stereo output amd won't sound like they should in a mono setup.