Hey guys
I've been thinking for some time about doing a commercial pack on some of the axe-fx artist presets (free and commercial)
I've done a ton in the past for free on the exchange and privately but I have run into some issues
1. Time ...... Finding out which FW the patch originally was on so I get the closest sound as intended ...one of the bummers of that unit is a patch is as only good as the FW it was made on ...the next update can change the sound completely
So if I can't find out I'll manually change FW's it until it registers
2.Risk.......I did a profile privately for free for someone and had a power issue at the time of updating the FW and almost bricked the unit ....not worth a $2000+ unit for free!
3.One idiot that continually rates every profile I do a 1 star automatically as soon as it hits the exchange (this even included profiles which became very well rated in profile form and the preset it came from was very popular.....go figure...) So I decided to pull them all off until I decide what I want to do
4. I buy a LOT of profiles from the Sinmix/Wagner/MBritt/AF/Armin packs to the cheaper ones.......and lets say some (more the low end) I felt burned by and maybe one of the more pricey ones ....so if someone can charge $20 for that I don't think making a commercial pack is asking for too much...especially when some of these are the most popular patches
There are already existing commercial axe-fx profile packs as well
5. New profiling changes With the new FW it allows DI profiles....this opens up to do some profiles which couldn't have been done as accurately in the past or at all, plus since my original batch there has been an update which improved the low end profiling
The only issue I have is ethical one where I would charging money for free presets (although some would be commercial)
So my idea was to release a very small number of Amp DI's initially and these Artist ones as a *bonus* to existing DI profiles
The money on these will also fund renting of amps which I can include as well, and future commercial presets (most likely all would be just a free update)
Let me know your thoughts if this is something that any of you would be interested in