MTCH CHIEF TM – Fractal Presets (Axe-FX III, FM3, FM9)

INCUDED PRESETS

This download includes patches for Axe-FX III, FM3, and FM9. Please make sure to import the appropriate patch for your hardware – they are not interchangeable.

1. MTCH CHIEF TM WT (SC)– this preset is voiced for single coils and low-output humbuckers
2. MTCH CHIEF TM WT (HB) – this preset is voiced for more traditional humbuckers

NOTE: The FM3 folder includes an ‘FX” patch. This patch includes the additional effects blocks from the full Axe-FX and FM9 patches. Feel free to substitute any of these effects blocks into the main patch to suite your needs.

OUR MATCHLESS CHIEFTAIN — NOW IN YOUR FRACTAL HARDWARE

For this preset, we tone-matched the Chieftain amp model in the Fractal hardware to the our Matchless Chieftain. The result is an impulse response that completely transforms the Fractal amp model – it sounds exactly like our Chieftain.

SIGNAL FLOW AND EFFECTS

1. Compressor
2. Pitch (POG)
3. Drives: KOT, 808, Fuzz, and more
4. Volume
5. Amp, User cab
6. Tremolo
7. Chorus
8. Delays: 1/8 delay, Dotted 8th delay, Dual stereo delay
9. Reverbs: Subtle and Huge

The FM3 presets cannot fit all the effects into a single patch. For that platform, we include the amp and essential effects in the main presets, and then we include the additional effects blocks in the ‘FX’ preset. Feel free to mix and match the additional ‘FX’ blocks into the main patches to suite your needs.

BLOCK CHANNELS

For each effect block, we set up all four channels to give you as many options as possible for each individual effect types. For example, in the Compressor block, there are four different types of compression. For drives, we use all available channels in each drive block to get different overdrive flavors. Please experiment with the channels in all the different blocks to find your favorites. Typically we use our favorites in Channel A.

The exceptions to this are usually the amp and cab blocks – for those we usually only set up Channel A.

CONTROL SWITCH 1 (CS1)

Control Switch 1 (CS1) is set to change amp gain settings. This essentially gives you another drive – pure amp overdrive.

In order to adjust these settings, on the amp block, right-click on ‘Input Drive’. Adjust the ‘Min’ and ‘Max’ values to set your desired amount of drive for when the button is off (Min) or on (Max).

We’ve mapped it to a button labeled ‘Amp Gain’ on the FC controllers. See the ‘Per-Preset Mapping and Overrides’ for more info.

You can control which scenes have the Amp Gain button on using the ‘SC Per Scene’ tab in the ‘Controllers’ menu.

SCENES

• Scene 1: CLEAN. Basic clean tone with verb and quarter delay
• Scene 2: DRIVE. Light Drive (Drive 1A)
• Scene 3: DRIVE+. Med Drive (Drive A, Control Switch 1)
• Scene 4: P&W LEAD. Big lead tone with delay and reverb
• Scene 5: AMBI CLEAN. Clean tone with stereo delay (1/4 + 1/8d) and big reverb.
• Scene 6: CLEAN TREM. Clean tone with tremolo
• Scene 7: POG LEAD. Big lead tone like snap 4 but with POG
• Scene 8: SWELLS. Big ambient tones

In the output block under the ‘Scene Levels’ tab, we’ve adjusted the output level for various scenes. Adjust these to suite your needs.