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Factory presets
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Factory presets
Fractal Audio periodically updates the factory presets for devices which are not discontinued.
- Download the latest factory presets.
- Download older versions of the factory from the unofficial archive.
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.
