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Factory presets
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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:
1 Galaxy Formation 2 Crunch Chorus 3 Electro-Sweep 4 Jet Flanger 5 Ambience 6 Detuned Wahs 7 Crystal Reverb 8 Pentalizer II 9 TZF Flanger 10 Orient Express 11 Black Hole 12 Detuned Descent 13 Enumerating Ravens 14 Introspection 15 Flanged Echos 16 Meet the Cytherians 17 Pong Chorus 18 Emerald Ocean 19 Intrigue (C Minor) 20 Crawling in the Dark 21 Ultraverb 22 Phaser Paradise 2 23 Smokey Jazz 24 Ballet Slippers 25 Velvet Sun 26 Lonely Heart Solo 27 A Major Harmony 28 Screaming Meanie 29 Asian Documentary 30 Delay Octoplex 31 Wind Chimes 2 32 Valentine Massacre 33 Chimey Echoes 34 1/8note FilterTrem 35 Poltergeist Pig 36 Organic 37 Bohemian Rhapsody 38 Pitchmodtrem 39 Albert's Lead 40 Centrifugue 41 Crystal Echos 42 The Wood Nymphs 43 Avant Garde Delay 44 Phaser + Rotary 45 Clean Pop Rhythm 46 Gated Reverb 47 MultiComp Plexi 48 Crossover L:Low R:Hi 49 Sweep Resonator 50 Satan's Hollow (e-) 51 regnalF esreveR 52 Vertigo 53 Cavernous 54 Dream Sequence 55 Thru-Zero Null Flanger 56 Stereo Tape Delay 2 57 Lazy Man`s Arppegio 58 Frenetica 59 Heavenly Echo 60 Tremverb 61 The Abyss 62 Root + 3rd + 5th (C) 63 Micro-Pitchshift 64 Rubber Biscuit 65 Diffused Phaser 66 I'm Nationwide 67 Watercolors 68 Event Horizon 69 Perceptual Reverb 70 Sweep Band Delay 2 71 Rainbow Splash 72 Thick Chorus 73 The Jupiter 2 74 Tracking Ringmod 75 Flangellation 76 Undulation 77 Serenity Now! 78 Haunting Echoes 79 Rockabilly Hot Rod 80 Ambient Swirl 81 6th Stone from Sun 82 Echoes from God 83 In a Funk 84 No Quarter 85 Flanked by Flangers 86 Wide Chorus Double 87 Surf's Up 88 Flippin' The Switch 89 Ascension 90 Wandering Delays 91 Heavily Processed 92 Boutique Battle 93 Frogtone Irie 94 Nameless Streets 95 Fat Solo Lead 2 96 Rainy Nights 97 Stays Crunchy 98 Arpeggiator Madness 99 Class-A Brethren 100 Bond... James Bond 101 Zamfir? 102 Screaming Plexi 2 103 Smokin' 104 Choral Canyon 105 Envelope Phaser 106 Velvet Sun 2 107 Super Phaser 108 Flangetastic 109 Wind Chimes 110 Year of the City 2274 111 5 octaves of fun 112 Tape Distortion 113 Atmosphere 114 Dual Detune 115 Diatonic Harmony (C) 116 Gamelan Night 117 Horror Movie 118 Wide Echoplex Wash 119 Funky Synth 120 Track Wah 121 Music Box 122 Diatonic 3rd + Oct Amaj 123 S/H Band Delay 124 Sweep Band Delay 125 Desert Breeze 126 Flashback 127 Diffused Mod Delay 128 Detune Slap
Bank C:
1 Squashed 2 Auto Swell PongVerb 3 Random Wah 4 Lounge Lizards 5 Sweep Echo 6 By Your Command 7 Brittle Comp Rhythm 8 Synth Lead 9 Slow Rotary 10 The Planets 11 Glass Castles 12 Scintillating 13 Phenomena 14 Traffic Jam 15 Katie's Song 16 Detune Plexi 17 Bouncing Echoes 18 Bad 19 Dripping Wet 20 Rush Hour 21 Get Down Syndrome 22 Comp Clean 23 New Country 24 Panning Delays 25 Down Full Step 26 Dirty Tape Echo 27 In a Fixx 28 Uber Chugga 29 Quad Chorus 30 '63 Tube Verb Box 31 Yngwie 32 Syncopated 2 33 Run Like Heck 34 Bass Ackwards 35 Stratosphere 36 Rotary Band Delay 37 Melancholia 38 BandTaps 39 Shifted Delay Thingy 40 Modern Eddie 41 PCM70 Hall 42 Mr. Gilmour Lead 43 Soundtrack 44 Bright Plate 45 Juicy Lead 46 Ganymede 47 Forty Miles 48 Freeway Jam 49 Beef Supreme 50 Vintage Spring 51 2290 Tap Delay 52 A Clockwork Banana 53 Thor's Hammer + Saw 54 East Wes 55 Bayou Country 56 Prometheus WV 57 Ned Beatty 58 Long Verb 59 A Kind of Dream (C) 60 Spandex & Hairspray 61 Opposed Notches 62 Modern Jazz 63 Shiva on the Rocks 64 Walking on the Moon 65 Pulse Delay 66 Stone in Love 67 CE-1 Chorus 68 Four Detuners 69 Triangle Flange 70 DreamVerb 71 Squeaky Clean 72 Forlorn 73 Ambient Guitar 74 Eruption 75 Band Delays 76 Mr. Floyd 77 Man In The Box 78 Broken Heart 79 Solar Eclipse 80 Comb Delays 81 ABCD=ms,FB,mod.Ext1=Warp 82 Capricorn 1 83 Underwater 84 Circular Delays 2 85 Blitz II 86 The Final Frontier 87 All Wet 8-Voice 88 C Major Shifts 89 Fifths in Space 90 Sea of Tranquility 91 Corbomite Maneuver 92 The Infield 93 China Syndrome 94 Clock Tower 95 Stereo Shift + Verb 96 Flange-Chorus-Echo-Verb 97 Echo Room 98 Tumbleweeds 99 W@rped Vinyl (ABCD) 100 80's Clean 101 Vintage Digital Delay 102 Sultans 103 RockMeOn Clean 104 High Landrons 105 Lunar Eclipse 106 2290 Delay 2 107 Chorused Reverb 108 FilteRing Funk 109 PopGate '88 110 Expanding Delay 111 Echo Deva 2.1 /1=FB 112 Cliffs of Dover 113 Modulation Mayhem 114 Damage Nexus 115 Gnome-Mans Land 2.0 116 Night Creatures 117 Farfegnugen 118 Jump Gate 119 Fazed Delays 120 Diamonique Rain 121 Happy Place 122 Echo Room 2 123 Space Verb 2 124 Direct Inject 125 Ham & Eggs 126 OUT1->FOH OUT2->CAB 127 Amp Matching Template 128 Bypass
