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Shred Guitar Suite
Shred is a full featured suite with 5 effects, 14 Cabinets, 5 heads and, 14 adjustable Rooms.
The heads included in Shred, are called them "ISH" heads..as in MARSHALL-ISH, FENDER-ISH, VOX-ISH. None of these heads are exact and are not intended to be. They could be thought of as heads with heavy mods if you like, but I prefer to think of them as ISH heads. Most of you know that ABG's mandate is to attempt to create new technology, not just spin out the same stuff that every company does. Shred does not represent a departure from that ideology, all of these heads are original works, but, they have characteristics of their real world counterparts. Some I looked at schematics, some I just created. The Shred head itself is an example of a completely original head, whereas the Honken head is basically a Fender Bassman with a Notch filter applied at the power amp stage, an ABG original first gain stage, and an extra gain stage in the poweramp similar to the gain stage of a linebacker. The result was AC30-ISH tone!
Here's the 5 heads..and their characteristics..
Shred
Shred is for all out rock and is similar in some ways to a Boogie
Honken
Honken is a classic British Vox-ish type head
Marvel
Marvel is a mixture of a JCM and a Hiwatt 50, It is capable of similar tones to each of these heads.
Quarter
Quarter is capable of classic Fender-ish tones.
Supersound 1972
This is based on a Supergroup and a Gibson GA77. It is capable of generating dark early sabbath type tones, but is not very good at creating the shimmering type tone of a GA77...
It should be also assumed that any component ideas that are based on real world components, also contain original code within. This is required as some things just don't work together and one needs to MacGyver components to fit.
Just a note on input volume, since there is no manual for this as it is not an official release
Shred allows you to adjust the amount of input level it receives, But what it does not do is tell you when you need to adjust it.. If you have selected a preset that is labelled clean and you hear distortion, you need to turn down the input level. If you load a preset that is called Shred or Crunch and you don't hear distortion, its clean, then you need to turn up the input volume. Don't get input volume confused with the input on the Cab, the gain, level, or power drive knobs. These are all level controls that are internal to Shred. Instead, on the right hand side of the plug beside where the effects appear, there is a small Square button, this allows you to adjust the input level.
If you are bypassing the head, cabinet, or both...before you click these buttons.
TURN YOUR LEVELS DOWN!!!!
When Shred receives the signal the first thing it does is lower it to a level it finds easier to work with. This is done because of the accumulative nature of Preampus Technology(Yes Shred contains some Preampus components).
Here you go guys..
KM
EDIT:
Thanks for your help guys I took this down until I get the finished version done
EDIT EDIT:
This Might be the finished version, but it is still in Release Candidate status. So there may not be anymore code added but there will for sure be one more build. This is to fix 2 things...Problems in Steinberg Products, and Preset saving.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/923791/Shred%201.01%20RC1%20B.rar
KM
Shred is a full featured suite with 5 effects, 14 Cabinets, 5 heads and, 14 adjustable Rooms.
The heads included in Shred, are called them "ISH" heads..as in MARSHALL-ISH, FENDER-ISH, VOX-ISH. None of these heads are exact and are not intended to be. They could be thought of as heads with heavy mods if you like, but I prefer to think of them as ISH heads. Most of you know that ABG's mandate is to attempt to create new technology, not just spin out the same stuff that every company does. Shred does not represent a departure from that ideology, all of these heads are original works, but, they have characteristics of their real world counterparts. Some I looked at schematics, some I just created. The Shred head itself is an example of a completely original head, whereas the Honken head is basically a Fender Bassman with a Notch filter applied at the power amp stage, an ABG original first gain stage, and an extra gain stage in the poweramp similar to the gain stage of a linebacker. The result was AC30-ISH tone!
Here's the 5 heads..and their characteristics..
Shred
Shred is for all out rock and is similar in some ways to a Boogie
Honken
Honken is a classic British Vox-ish type head
Marvel
Marvel is a mixture of a JCM and a Hiwatt 50, It is capable of similar tones to each of these heads.
Quarter
Quarter is capable of classic Fender-ish tones.
Supersound 1972
This is based on a Supergroup and a Gibson GA77. It is capable of generating dark early sabbath type tones, but is not very good at creating the shimmering type tone of a GA77...
It should be also assumed that any component ideas that are based on real world components, also contain original code within. This is required as some things just don't work together and one needs to MacGyver components to fit.
Just a note on input volume, since there is no manual for this as it is not an official release
Shred allows you to adjust the amount of input level it receives, But what it does not do is tell you when you need to adjust it.. If you have selected a preset that is labelled clean and you hear distortion, you need to turn down the input level. If you load a preset that is called Shred or Crunch and you don't hear distortion, its clean, then you need to turn up the input volume. Don't get input volume confused with the input on the Cab, the gain, level, or power drive knobs. These are all level controls that are internal to Shred. Instead, on the right hand side of the plug beside where the effects appear, there is a small Square button, this allows you to adjust the input level.
If you are bypassing the head, cabinet, or both...before you click these buttons.
TURN YOUR LEVELS DOWN!!!!
When Shred receives the signal the first thing it does is lower it to a level it finds easier to work with. This is done because of the accumulative nature of Preampus Technology(Yes Shred contains some Preampus components).
Here you go guys..
KM
EDIT:
Thanks for your help guys I took this down until I get the finished version done
EDIT EDIT:
This Might be the finished version, but it is still in Release Candidate status. So there may not be anymore code added but there will for sure be one more build. This is to fix 2 things...Problems in Steinberg Products, and Preset saving.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/923791/Shred%201.01%20RC1%20B.rar
KM
