I got asked by a friend to curate some Phish shows for him that would sort of give a taste of what the band is like, live. I just want to recognize how hard this was for me. A few...

We’ve made a fun family event out of doing the seasonal tasting packs for Hot Ones here at the house. Last weekend we did a Season 23 tasting event. You can find the list of sauces in Season 23...

Factory preset 106 - Machine Gun from the latest Axe-Fx III factory preset pack does some amazing Hendrix tones. These were recorded with my McCarty 594 semi-hollow, bridge pickup with the coils tapped for single coil goodness.

If you’re lucky enough to own more than one Fractal Audio device you can devise some pretty HUGE sounding guitar tones by running the all at the same.

Insanity, you say? Maybe so!

I use the Axe-Fx III as...

Hola Phish Fans!

Summer Tour 2021 is upon us and with it brings Trey running a new guitar and a very new rig. I had sworn off chasing Trey’s tones but a year without any tours and the...

Forumite RosettaStoned is new to the FM3 and made a post about finding all the factory presets dark and muddy. I suggested dialing in a preset from scratch and that it wasn’t hard to get a great tone from...

I’ve posted on the Fractal Audio forum about the 3 Sigma Audio acoustic guitar IR files in the past (ref). I wasn’t overly pleased with their J15 IRs (ref) when I paired them with the piezo output from...

Jerry always had nice space around his nice tone. A forumite asked for a hand crafting a nice space around their really nice Jerry tone and I couldn’t help by take a stab at it. Their clip came from...

The inimitable and golden-ear’ed burgs on the Fractal forum made a post a while back about an amp from Magnatone that did this cool stereo phase thing. Hard to explain, go listen to his demo video of the amp...

An example of using a exponential LFO on a panning block to create a more interesting motion in the left-to-right-to-left panning effect as the rate of change speeds up and slows down versus staying linear the way it would with...

A funky octave preset with a Mu-Tron filter on it.

Preset is here

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Over time I’ve come to realize that how you tackle problems matters more than what you know before you start tackling a problem. Having a system for subdividing a problem and addressing its issues in smaller, manageable pieces can make...