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Syn's Fractal Audio Systems Preset - A Demo

Ed Seith

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    I meticulously rebuilt the tone as closely as possible to the provided settings in my AxeFX 2XL+, and... it sounded like total ass.

    There are a lot of tonal changes often from firmware to firmware on presets, and with the Aries 2.0 (the last firmware available for the 2 series) being probably 15 revisions back... Well, nope. Total ass.

    Unfortunately, I failed to save it correctly before I shut down my unit, or I might have tried to tweak it to ACTUALLY sound good (everything but the amp itself was probably fine). I may introduce some of the delay and reverb settings to my tones to see how they go, because I use the 5153 Red as my foundation, as well.
     
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    I meticulously rebuilt the tone as closely as possible to the provided settings in my AxeFX 2XL+, and... it sounded like total ass.

    There are a lot of tonal changes often from firmware to firmware on presets, and with the Aries 2.0 (the last firmware available for the 2 series) being probably 15 revisions back... Well, nope. Total ass.

    Unfortunately, I failed to save it correctly before I shut down my unit, or I might have tried to tweak it to ACTUALLY sound good (everything but the amp itself was probably fine). I may introduce some of the delay and reverb settings to my tones to see how they go, because I use the 5153 Red as my foundation, as well.
    it is what it is

    I sold my ax8 long ago so I forgot what is and what's not in the firmware parameters (of course the algorithm changes) compared to now but probably stick to basic EQ settings and output EQ in the amp block

    maybe adjust LF and HF Resonance in your Speaker tab to simulate the speaker impedance curve in the current firmware to 124 and 1400 hz

    these should go a long way

    as for the effects and drive they should sound similar enough
     
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