Is there a way to find presets based on gear?

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Morning all,

does anyone know of a way to locate presets based on gear?

I’m looking at getting the Mesa plugin but when I add “tele”, I just get counter tones. I want that gnarly heavy and bright tone for my Thinline JA-90.

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Presets are not always the best way to find tones. I’m assuming you’re running the free trial of the Mesa plug-in… Get in there and start tweaking.

Since you have a Jim Adkins model, here’s a video of him speaking with Ken Andrews (of the band Failure). They are both Fractal users. Jim mentions that for speaker cab emulations, he places the microphone(s) right in the center of the cone. That will get you all the brightness you could ever want.

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I don’t have the free version. I haven’t even demoed it yet. I played one a long time ago and it became my dream amp and I have wanted one ever since. That was about 26 years ago.

I’ve just never been able to afford one.

Now I get to with the software and I have one of my dream guitars so I’m looking forward to some bright and crunchy tones.

Thank you! Where is your favorite place to find presets?

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I’m not big on presets personally. But the plug-in itself will have a bunch of presets available to play with. Start up a free trial and give it a spin, there’s nothing to lose.

By the way, I’m 99.99% sure that Neural DSP will have a Black Friday / Cyber Monday 50% off sale coming up. That would be a great time to pick up the Mesa plug-in.

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Oh I know!

i’m very limited on money right now. We got baby number five on the way and my wife can’t work at the moment so I’m making all the monies.

I’m trying to see if anyone would be willing to trade, Nolly X or Plini X or DarkGlass Ultra. No takers yet.

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You, sir, were correct. I got it!

now I need to play around with it. I’m still new in dialing in tones and the videos that come up are bluesy or a style of rock I don’t play.

I made a tone before I really liked and when it was in the mix, it sounded so bad.

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That’s how it can go. I don’t know what your level of experience is, but what sounds good “in the hands” may not sound good in the mix. This can be due to gain, a stackup of high frequencies or low frequencies, etc.

I never think of an amp plug-in as doing 100% of the work for guitar tones, but as one piece of a signal chain that may include an EQ, compressor, and/or a channel strip. Or I may do the stereo double track thing with left and right guitars being mixed together on a bus.