General question I have about all Fractal presets that people sell, including this one: How do you know if the preset will work well with the buyer's monitoring system (whatever kind it may be) without significant changes to the preset? And, if you can't sort that out, the preset(s) could sound terrible on one system, but great on another.
This is a really good question and is something I try my best to take into account. The short answer is that I don’t believe any sort of preset designer can know what the end user’s monitoring system will be or react to the preset because that would be impossible. For me, the best I can do is dial them in as true as I can to the point where I personally want to keep playing it. One thing I do for every preset is send it to a handful of trusted people who will test them out. They all have varying monitoring systems, guitars, pickups, etc. If they aren’t blown away I don’t release the preset. Something I also take a lot of pride in is providing end user support through all my social media outlets as well as email. I want to make sure everyone has a good experience with these. With that said, I monitor through high quality studio headphones at a very high volume. I’ve found this works really well for me because then I don’t dial in too much high end. If I have the headphone volume low, then the natural thing to do is dial in high end, but then when you play at stage volume, louder studio monitor volume, or FRFR volume it’s going to sound overly bright (Fletcher Munson Effect). I hope this answers your question!
I’ll second Steven! Jon’s TM sets even require minimal adjustments between my single coils or humbuckers, only a few small EQ tweaks if I’m being a perfectionist like a real amp. Admittedly, I mostly play through studio headphones myself… small kid life.
@@davidgrube9478 Thanks. I play through some nice studio monitors primarily. I would imagine it'll sound great. I can't decide between Fractal and ToneX captures now, though. Decisions, decisions.
Thanks for sharing, not sure if I'm the only one but I keep hearing the bass way, waaaay too high, same for the previous ultimate Mayer, I tested on headphones and speakers, how are you monitoring the sound on your end? perhaps there's a reason for the spike, I'm placing a PEQ high pass filter at the end of the chain but just wanted to share in case more people are having the same problem
Hey Jon, would your fractal presets you have available in store be compatible with the Axe 8?
I responded to your email!
New preset! www.jonkaneshiroguitar.com/products/fractal-two-rock-traditional-clean-steel-string-singer-tone-match
General question I have about all Fractal presets that people sell, including this one: How do you know if the preset will work well with the buyer's monitoring system (whatever kind it may be) without significant changes to the preset? And, if you can't sort that out, the preset(s) could sound terrible on one system, but great on another.
This is a really good question and is something I try my best to take into account. The short answer is that I don’t believe any sort of preset designer can know what the end user’s monitoring system will be or react to the preset because that would be impossible. For me, the best I can do is dial them in as true as I can to the point where I personally want to keep playing it. One thing I do for every preset is send it to a handful of trusted people who will test them out. They all have varying monitoring systems, guitars, pickups, etc. If they aren’t blown away I don’t release the preset. Something I also take a lot of pride in is providing end user support through all my social media outlets as well as email. I want to make sure everyone has a good experience with these.
With that said, I monitor through high quality studio headphones at a very high volume. I’ve found this works really well for me because then I don’t dial in too much high end. If I have the headphone volume low, then the natural thing to do is dial in high end, but then when you play at stage volume, louder studio monitor volume, or FRFR volume it’s going to sound overly bright (Fletcher Munson Effect).
I hope this answers your question!
I can tell you his presets are some of the best out there. I was able to nail the John Mayer Trio tones right out of the box. Hope this helps.
@stevenchristianupton thanks so much Steven! Trying my best to make sure all of you do more playing than tweaking.
I’ll second Steven! Jon’s TM sets even require minimal adjustments between my single coils or humbuckers, only a few small EQ tweaks if I’m being a perfectionist like a real amp. Admittedly, I mostly play through studio headphones myself… small kid life.
@@davidgrube9478 Thanks. I play through some nice studio monitors primarily. I would imagine it'll sound great. I can't decide between Fractal and ToneX captures now, though. Decisions, decisions.
Thanks for sharing, not sure if I'm the only one but I keep hearing the bass way, waaaay too high, same for the previous ultimate Mayer, I tested on headphones and speakers, how are you monitoring the sound on your end? perhaps there's a reason for the spike, I'm placing a PEQ high pass filter at the end of the chain but just wanted to share in case more people are having the same problem
I use Beyerdynamic DT770 headphones. You can always dial out the lows with the Low Cut in the cab block for the tone matches!
@@JonKaneshiroGuitar yes, I’m doing that now and this is the best tone I’ve had in my strat after many years working on it, thank you mate
@BetoVelandiaOriginal awesome! I’m so glad you like it.
Can you make the tonex version?
I’ll have to think about how that can work!
Damn dude.
Haha! Thanks man