The first two are just my Helix Native tone without and with American Classic, where as the latter two demonstrates my full chain without and with American Classic. Listen Helix Tone > Helix + Preamp > Full Processing NO Preamp > Full Processing. Of course, a lot of things I've moved on from using, for example I used to rely heavily on the Boost + EQ stompbox but I've found that the CT Pre in TH-3/TH-U works a bit better for that TC Electronic Integrated Preamp sound. POD Farm just has a really steep learning curve to nail as it's incredibly easy to make horrendous tones with it.

If you want the early-2010s djent sound of Vildhjarta, Monuments, TesseracT, Uneven Structure, early Polyphia, etc there's no better plugin imo. I also bought John Browne's POD X3 tones from back when he sold a Monuments tone bundle and it's surprising how decent the tones are. In addition to the American Classic and tuner, I still use the amp heads from time to time because they pair REALLY nicely with decent IRs. With something like Slate's Virtual Mix Rack you could probably make something similar with a few of the EQs and maybe the FG-Bomber set to be fairly light.Ĭlick to expand.Seriously man, people REALLY underestimate what you can do with POD Farm these days. I'm fairly certain the stock American Classic settings are what the 'Magic' setting is in the JST Toneforge plugins. If you give me a little bit I can upload a comparison to show what sort of difference it makes. I use it to add 'life' to otherwise lifeless amp tones. It's really good even outside of the classic Sturgis/Chango metalcore sound, I use it on everything man haha.

Sometimes I may do a slight 240 cut or 10-12.5k boost but normally I leave it stock, it's just that big of a change that they somehow nailed right from the start. I use it daily and haven't found any alternatives that produce the same result in the way I like it. It's an absolutely fantastic addition and is the perfect set-and-forget tone enhancer.

Gotta say though, the American Classic preamp is essential to all of my best tones I've made. There's a tuner one which is still my favorite VST tuner, a distortion one, a reverb one, an amp one, etc. Max got it, it's included in 2.5 as these individual elements.

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