Sunday, January 19, 2025
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Bass Presets in Fractal Land – Axe-FX III/FM9/FM3


In this video, we go over how bass-playing Fractal users can get the most out of their units, whether they’re on an FM3, FM9, or Axe-FX III

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0:00 Intro
0:46 Amps
8:29 Cabs
9:53 Pitch Block (Octave & -1/2 step)
12:42 Auto-Wah
14:40 Drives
18:01 Chorus
21:15 Multi-Band Compressor
23:00 Reverb
23:13 Filter Block (Boost pedal)
23:51 Outro

Gear:
• Music Man Bongo HH 5str (equipped with Ernie Ball 40-130s)
• Fractal Audio FM3
– Ampeg SVT
– Mesa/Boogie Bass 400
– Orange AD200B
– FAS Bass
– Ampeg Portaflex)

Use this preset on your next gig or session, whether you’re on the FM3, FM9, or Axe-FX III!

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Originally posted by UC3U_j9_bSL22bizb7qnX-tw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-c2ZidLG_k

22 thoughts on “Bass Presets in Fractal Land – Axe-FX III/FM9/FM3

  • On behalf of all fractal using guitar players who slide over to bass when necessary, let me just say god bless you for this tutorial!

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  • the M-Comp and Filter, Wow! I think this is also applicable to acoustic guitars!

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  • Sweet, Alex. This is great. I've been using a Tom Hamilton Gift Of Tone preset from Fractal. It's pretty good but this will open some doors. I have quite a few bass IRs, some free some paid, that should fit in nicely with your tips for dialing in some very usable bass tones.

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  • Hows the tone of this one in live setting

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    You recommend it that the analog or other competitors such as Helix and Quad Cortex?

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  • Nice walk through Alex! My only comment is the order you have things in your chain, especially for live players. Personally I put my compression at the beginning of the chain, to even out the unevenness from finger play style, versus slap, etc., it could be argued this could go at the end, but this is where I put mine. I also notice you have output 1 and output 2 in use. I have something similar, where output 1 goes to front of house, and output 2 goes to my bass amp on stage. With this setup, I have my bass amp and cabinet in the fractal toward the end of the chain and split the signal right before the amp/cab. This way I have my fractal amp/cab going to FOH and my effects only going out to my stage amp/cab. I dont want to run my signal through the fractal amp/cab and then run this into another real amp and cab, It just muddy's the song way too much.

    thanks for the walk, you make some great points!

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  • Really nice video/preset! Would it be possible so put the distortion also in parallel like the chorus and the reverb? So you can keep the fundamental on another path and add compressor to the clean path?

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  • You're one of the very few actually making things for bass on the fractal. Thank you!

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  • Downloaded but preset is just comes up as FRACTAL BASS … no bass 2 like in video so do not have the other set of Citrus,FAS bass, Porta… And you have it set up so you have to have your Editor open to control it? Not ungrateful. Maybe am wrong?

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  • Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You have a great ear for Bass tones. One idea for content would be to match some of these awesome Bass Tones with Drums vsts, Machines, or Samples. I suspect your ear for great Drum sounds is just as good :). Cheers.

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  • really was not expecting to hear that Mask Machine riff in the drive section haha caught me off guard. Great video by the way. Have you had any experience with other modelers on bass? like the Helix, Quad Cortex, or Kemper?

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  • Very well done – thank you! Love the Fractalverse. I'm a guitar player – have a bass…I'm going for it now..gonna put it on and connect to my FM3. Yee-hah!

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  • Thanks Alex, they sound great. I put them all together in an AXE-FX 3 preset if you want it I can post it to my Axechange. It has full Alex Maiers credit in it.

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  • Damn! I search every week for Fractal bass stuff. Just started watching. Let’s hope this video is more than some crazy metal patch ????

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