MSA TEXSTAR – Tone Match Gen2 Presets and Captures

$19.99

Presets based on a 100w Mesa Boogie Lone Star

Available for:

  • Line 6 Helix, HX Stomp, POD Go
  • Fractal Axe-FX III, FM3, and FM9
  • Quad Cortex
  • TONEX and Amplitube
  • Headrush Prime
  • Kemper (Profiler and Stage)

Description

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TONE MATCH Gen2 PRESETS, CAPTURES, AND PROFILES OF 100w MESA BOOGIE LONE STAR

For these patches, we’ve captured a 100w Mesa Boogie Lonestar. The result is a set of presets and captures that sound exactly like our amp, and the microphones, preamps, and EQ chains that we use to record it.

The Mesa Boogie Lone Star is a bit of a modern classic. It is a two channel vintage voiced amplifier offered in a variety of formats. Ours is the 100w version in a 1×12 combo with an Electro-Voice EFM 12L speaker. This amp is capable of beautiful lush cleans in the clean channel, and the lead channel is thick and creamy.

We’ve tone-matched the amp with a Royer 121 and Earthworks SR25 through a stereo Neve 1073 preamp.

TONE MATCH (Gen 2) PATCHES (Applies to Line 6 and Fractal presets)

These are part of our ‘Tone Match’ line of patches. To create these patches, we make custom IR’s that ‘match’ the HX and Fractal amp models to our real-world amp. The result is the Line 6 and Fractal units sound almost exactly like our actual amplifiers.

The ‘Gen2’ indicates a new process we’ve used when Tone Matching our amplifiers that takes more of the amplifier’s cab and speaker into account, resulting in a more accurate tone match impulse response.

Line 6 Patches available for Helix (floor, LT, and Native), HX Stomp (including Stomp XL), and POD Go.

This download includes patches for Helix, HX Stomp, and POD Go with options for both single coils and humbuckers. Please make sure to import the appropriate patch for your hardware – they are not interchangeable.

NOTE: The HX Stomp and POD Go folders include ‘FX” patches. These patches include the additional effects blocks from the full Helix patch.

SIGNAL FLOW AND EFFECTS

  1. Input
  2. Compressor
  3. Drives: KOT, Timmy
  4. Volume – mapped to EXP 2
  5. Amp (both the clean and lead channels)
  6. IR
  7. EQ
  8. Chorus
  9. Tremolo
  10. Delays: 1/8 delay, Dotted 8th delay, Dual stereo delay
  11. Reverbs: Hall (subtle), Dynamic Hall (huge)
  12. Output

The HX Stomp and POD Go patches cannot fit all the effects into a single patch. For those platforms, we include the amp and essential effects in the main patches, and then we include the additional effects blocks in the ‘FX’ patches. Feel free to mix and match the additional ‘FX’ blocks into the main patches to suite your needs.

AMP CHANNEL SWITCH

We’ve set a button on the Helix and HX Stomp to swap between the Ch1 and Ch2 amp blocks. This emulates switching between the clean and lead channels on the amp. 

SNAPSHOTS

  • Snapshot 1: CLEAN-ISH. Base clean tone
  • Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Engages a KOT drive
  • Snapshot 3: RHYTHM. Engages the Ch2 amp block (lead channel)
  • Snapshot 4: SOLO. Big lead tone
  • Snapshot 5: CLEAN HALO. Clean tone with two delays in series that emulate the Keely/Andy Timmons Halo delay
  • Snapshot 6: AMBI MOD. Ambient clean tone with retro reel
  • Snapshot 7: P&W LEAD. Big lead tone with lots of delay and reverb 
  • Snapshot 8: SWELLS. All the ambient stuff

POD Go:

  • Snapshot 1: CLEAN. Base clean tone
  • Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Stage 1 drive tone
  • Snapshot 3: SOLO. Lead tone 
  • Snapshot 4: AMBIENT. Ambient clean tone

NOTE: The HX Stomp patches do not include Snapshots.