Description
HILLSONG ARTIST SERIES PRESETS AND CAPTURES
These presets are inspired by and re-create the sounds made popular by Nigel Hendroff of Hillsong Church (Hillsong Worship). We built it out based on a number of references to Nigel’s board and amps. We feel this patch sounds great on just about any Hillsong song, and works with a wide variety of different guitars and pickup types.
TONE MATCH (Gen 2) PATCHES (Applies to Line 6 and Fractal presets only)
These are part of our ‘Tone Match’ line of patches. To create these patches, we make custom IR’s that ‘match’ the HX and Fractal amp models to our real-world amp. The result is the Line 6 and Fractal units sound almost exactly like our actual amplifiers.
The ‘Gen2’ indicates a new process we’ve used when Tone Matching our amplifiers that takes more of the amplifier’s cab and speaker into account, resulting in a more accurate tone match impulse response.
SIGNAL FLOW AND EFFECTS
- Input
- Compressor
- Pitch
- Drives
- Volume
- Modulation
- Delays
- Reverbs
- Amps
- IRs (Tone Match)
- Output
SNAPSHOTS
- Snapshot 1: CLEAN. This is the base clean tone with delay.
- Snapshot 2: DRIVE. Light overdrive.
- Snapshot 3: DRIVE +: Bigger overdrive
- Snapshot 4: LEAD – Lead tone with lots of reverb and delay
- Snapshot 5: AMBI CLEAN – Ambient Clean tone
- Snapshot 6: AMBI TRL– Heavy delay used for ambient textures
- Snapshot 7: POG LEAD – lead tone with lots of reverb and delay and POG
- Snapshot 8: SHMR SWELL – Ambient swells with shimmer
NOTE: The HX Stomp patches do not include Snapshots
QUAD CORTEX – HOW DO YOU GET THE CAPTURES?
When you place your order, we will need to manually send you the captures through the ‘Cortex Cloud’ app by Neural DSP, available for both iOS and Android devices. First, you need to have the app installed and you must have an account through the app (go here to create an account and access the app).
This is how we will send you the captures:
- Please include your Cortex Cloud app username in the ‘Notes’ field when checking out. If you do not include this, we cannot send you the captures. After we receive your order, we (SignalTheory) will follow you on the app.
- Follow ‘SignalTheory’ on the Cortex Cloud app. This will make us ‘friends’ through the app :). If you are not following us, we cannot send you the captures.
- After we receive your order, and we ‘Friends’ on the app, we will send you the captures through the app. We bundle the captures into presets, so you will receive one (or more) presets that include all the captures. You will find the captures in the ‘Shared with me’ section on your Quad Cortex.
- Please allow up to 5 business days for us to send you the captures. Most orders will be fulfilled within two business days or less. This fulfillment process must happen manually – we will do our best to get you the files quickly. Once the NDSP marketplace opens, this process may change.
David McVey (verified owner) –
This has quickly become a favorite of mine. The Matchless30 and Scarlett amps sound amazing with my Duesenberg to my Tele. Love the presets. I’m using this on Quad Cortex.
Brian Wahl (store manager) –
Thanks David! Droff knows a thing or two about tone, and we’re just following in his footsteps :).
Dan B (verified owner) –
The volumes for the leads are ridiculously high in comparison to the cleans and drives. Overall, it doesn’t sound that much better or different than the free AC30 patch. I wish I could have demo’d this personally before I bought it because it doesn’t sound anywhere as near as good as your demos. I feel like I wasted money on this patch and will probably never use it.
Brian Wahl (store manager) –
Hi Dan – thanks for purchasing. Sorry for the experience with volume levels and the disappointment with the tones.
I can speak a bit to the volume differences: On these presets we try to have a gradual increase in volume as you increase in gain, so going from the clean to the lead settings can result in about a 3-6dB increase. This can be different depending on your guitar, pickups playing style, etc. We’ve included instructions in the ReadMe files on how to make adjustments for these kinds of things based on your setup.
For the demos, we always use the presets exactly as they are delivered without any adjustments, but we always recommend players make tweaks based on their own playing and preferences. Thanks again for purchasing.
Dylan Harris (verified owner) –
Been getting into playing worship music, and as someone that has historically been an analog guy that primary plays heavy rock music, I was pretty lost in finding that ambient sound. This quickly solved that problem.
Van Simmons (verified owner) –
I don’t know dude. I think is is a sick patch, probably going to go into high rotation. I’ve purchased many patches from you over the years, and this is a great one. I see that 2 star review, and I don’t get it. Great patch! You guys just keep improving. He says that it “doesn’t sound as good as the demos”. Maybe because his guitar or playing sucks? My Suhr maybe sounds a little better than the demos (joking)