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Use scenes to give you the sounds for most situations.
The main thing is to develop a methodology that you carry through to all your patches.
The FC12 is massive.
I would suggest the FC6 for most people.
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In terms of the FC12 I don't think it's that massive - I've not measured, but it looks to me like it's the same size as my bandmate's Helix, the only difference is my expression pedals are separate units. I started with the FC6 but sold it (to @TeleMaster) as I wanted to make use of having everything at my feet with minimum presses of footswitches. Layouts on the FC are a hugely powerful tool and fully customisable, I would recommend familiarising yourself with those as they open up a limitless number of options.
I have a kitchen sink preset with scenes for clean, edge, crunch, boosted crunch, and lead tones, but also have switches for drive, amp boost, +/- 2db and usually a few effects. I then have a footswitch that takes me to the effects layout where I have access to all effects in the preset. The 3 is so powerful that you can comfortably have a preset with drive, pitch, phaser, flanger, chorus, rotary, a couple of delays, plex verb, couple of reverbs and anything else you can think of. It's rare that I do, but it's nice to know that a phaser pedal is only a tap away should I feel the urge to get my EVH on. That preset is my go to and the basis for most new ones. I have variations of it for certain songs where I want some scenes different volumes, levels of gain etc but I can get through the lion's share of our set with that main preset.
As @octatonic said a consistent methodology really helps. I also find that making a just few tweaks at a time and trying those at a rehearsal or two is more helpful than changing a tonne of stuff at once.
One of the reasons I want it simple is that I also control our lights. To avoid tap dancing I’ve programmed my MFC to send midi messages. I’m hoping the use Midi blocks to do this in future, once I’ve sorted out how to send midi tempo messages.
I used to run 15 patches on the AFX 2... a bank of 5 would run clean through to high gain - and 3 banks offered different flavour. With the AFX3 and FC12 I can do each bank in a single patch.
1. Use two amp blocks, one rhythm and one lead. I used to do this on the II, but had to discontinue when I ran out of CPU cycles.
2. Use scene controllers to change amp settings. This is OK when the amp type stays the same.
3. Put up with it. On some songs there is a gap of one or two beats between the rhythm and lead parts.
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I also have a part where I go from a lead line into a rhythm, and ideally I'd like to freeze the last note of the lead whilst playing the next riff, and then fade it away.
Plex Delay block - Fractal Audio Wiki
Stack/Hold
Available in firmware Ares 12 and later.
When HOLD is activated, the wet input to the block is muted and feedback is set to infinity. This can be used to achieve pad sounds and drone notes/chords.
When set to STACK incoming audio is stacked on existing audio and held.
Hold/Stack can be controlled with an external controller. When attaching a pedal to Off/Stack/Hold, Heel is Off, Stack is middle and Toe is Hold.
Delay & Reverb Stack or Hold - Axe-Fx III & FM3 - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4EtcSlvHv8
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