#BIAS FX 2 AMP LIST SOFTWARE#

All this mucking about added up to create a tone forever linked with Rock Guitar. Another major tone difference was due to the necessary output & power supply transformer changes. 1968), Marshall® had completely changed the circuitry away from the Fender® 6L6 power tube heritage and moved to an E元4 tube. We literally scoured the world for this particular amp, finally finding a great example of a Super Lead languishing (we like to think fate preserved it for us) in Holland. The 1968 Plexi Lead 100 is modeled after the infamous ‘68 Marshall® ‘Plexi’ Super Lead - coveted by tone connoisseurs the world over. Although usually played fairly clean, a cranked AC 30 has a great saturated lead tone, a la Brian May on the early Queen albums. Brian May of Queen, Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and The Edge of U2 have all used classic AC 30s to make their music. Much of the unique character of the Vox® sound can be attributed to the fact that Class A amps overdrive in a very different way than Class AB. The AC 30 with Top Boost was the amp made famous by many British invasion bands. So the Jennings Company, makers of Vox® amps, decided to add Treble and Bass controls (and an extra 12AX7 gain stage, incidentally) in addition to the Treble Cut knob it already had (which in actuality was a sliding bandpass filter that always seemed like it was working backwards) this additional circuit became known as Top Boost. Music was changing in the early ‘60s and guitarists were asking for more brilliance & twang. The 1967 Class A-30 Top Boost model is based on a Vox® AC 30. On the other hand, when you turn the Middle knob down, you’ll probably want to boost the Treble. The two are additive, so if you’re running your Middle knob higher than halfway up with this model, you’ll find that the Treble control might give you more bright than you really want.

Instead, it’s almost like a second treble control. The Middle control isn’t a bandpass, as in most tone control setups. One of the interesting things about the Bassman® is just how interactive the Middle and Treble controls are. Incidentally, when Jim Marshall built his first amps with Ken Bran they were heavily influenced by the early Bassman®. It has the fat bottom end you’d expect from a bass amp, but also has the Fender® twang on the top. Originally a bass guitar amp, the Bassman® became a Blues staple for 6-string guitarists. The 1959 Tweed B-Man Model is based on the classic ‘58 Fender® Bassman® 4x10 combo, the amp that started it all - instant rock and roll tone. The descriptions for each amp are excerpts from the POD Farm User Manual.Ĭlick on the picture to get a closer look. The amps in the distorted category doesn’t mean they can’t be tweaked to crank out clean sounds but Line 6 may have had a good reason for their pre-defined settings that’s why I left them alone. The grouping is strictly subjective so you might disagree and that’s fine with me. I observed that each amp preset had certain characteristics from clean tone to distorted so I grouped them into four categories: Clean, Mild Distortion, Medium Distortion and Heavy Distortion. As for the knob settings, I left them as they were preset. That way I could get the basic sound of the amp model. I decided to deactivate the cabinets, which in turn deactivated the room and mic. In the mixer section of POD Farm standalone, I set the record send to 'dry' so I can apply all the amp model VST plugins to the same exact guitar signal in my DAW.Īfter recording the dry guitar signal, I fired up the POD Farm VST plugin in my DAW to non-destructively apply each amp model. Picking an amp model in POD Farm automatically pairs it with a pre-set cabinet, room position and one of three microphone types, all of which can also be tweaked so I’m not exaggerating when I mentioned the number of possible tones that can be had with this piece of software. To get familiar with the amp models, I decided to record clips to be able to compare each sound.

Most amp models have knobs for drive, bass, middle, treble, presence and volume that can be tweaked allowing for hundreds if not thousands of possible tones. As of this writing, Version 2 has come out but I won’t go into that as I obviously don’t own it. I have Version 1 of POD Farm which came with the POD Studio UX2 I got on Christmas of 2009. On this post, I am going to learn about the 18 different amp models that come with Line 6’s POD Farm.

#BIAS FX 2 AMP LIST SOFTWARE#

As I mentioned in my previous post, I intend to learn and acquire an in-depth understanding of every piece of gear and software I have.

Bias fx 2 amp list