Hi fellow guitar players,

I’m happy to share my Vox AC30-inspired preset bank for Scuffham S-Gear 3.2.6.

The bank was created with a Fender American Ultra Telecaster and voiced around a real guitar cabinet setup using an Orange PPC412. It includes eight presets ranging from clean chime and Tele jangle to edge-of-breakup response, Top Boost-style crunch, Brian May-inspired lead, dotted-eighth delay textures, and warm neck-pickup lead sounds.

The bank contains eight presets in slots 000–007:

1. AC30 Cab Clean Chime Tele Neck Mid
2. AC30 Cab Jangle Tele Middle Spark
3. AC30 Cab Edge-of-Breakup Tele Bridge
4. AC30 Cab Top Boost Tele Bridge Bite
5. AC30 Cab Chime Drive Tele Rock Rhythm
6. AC30 Cab Brian May Tele Singing Lead
7. AC30 Cab Dotted Eighth Tele Chime Delay
8. AC30 Cab Warm Lead Tele Neck Voice

The presets are stored cab-free as a safe starting point. For real-cab use, keep ProConvolver/Cab and CABS bypassed to avoid double speaker coloration. For studio monitors, headphones, or direct recording, enable ProConvolver/Cab and operate BYPASS CABS with LED ON | CABS active | bypass inactive.

In addition to the preset bank, I have included four PDF guides:

- Real Cab Mode – German
- Real Cab Mode – English
- Studio Monitor Mode – German
- Studio Monitor Mode – English

These guides provide detailed setup notes, preset descriptions, AMP A/B settings, effect logic, and separate instructions for real-cab and studio-monitor operation.

I hope You enjoy these presets and find them useful as starting points for Your own AC30-flavoured S-Gear tones.

Best regards from Germany,
Björn

[ Addendum ]

At Mike's suggestion, I'm now making a second preset bank available here:
Vox AC30 for Telecaster & Orange PPC 412 DI Z-Ctrl

This optional second bank uses ProConvolver DI with Z-Control instead of a cabinet model. It does not replace the main Real Cab bank. In my own Fryette Power Station 100 / Orange PPC412 setup, I personally prefer the clearer and more natural sound of the main cab-free bank with ProConvolver switched off. However, the DI/Z-Control version may be useful for players using different power amps, real guitar cabinets, or recording setups who want to experiment with S-Gear’s impedance-style EQ shaping.

WOW! Thank you Björn.

Thanks, Björn, for your effort and documentation!

Carl

Wow, thank you! This is really great work. I enjoyed playing through the presets and looking at the documentation (which I haven't read fully as yet).

The presets are really good.

I wonder if you also experimented with the ProConvovler DI with Z Control mode? This doesn't apply any cab model, but it does apply the EQ shaping according to the Z setting. So typically a bass resonance and treble lift. I don't think your presets need this, they sound great anyway. For anyone driving a real guitar cab with a solid state amplifier, then the Z effect might add something.

Cheers,
Mike

Thank You Björn

Hi Mike,

thank you very much for your kind words — I really appreciate that. It means a lot to hear that you enjoyed playing through the presets, especially coming from you.

Yes, I did experiment with the ProConvolver DI with Z Control mode after preparing the first bank. Technically it worked perfectly, and I can absolutely see why it could be useful for players driving a real guitar cab with a solid-state power amp.

In my own setup, however — Apollo X4 into a Fryette Power Station 100 and then into an Orange PPC412 — I found that the presets sounded clearer and more natural with the ProConvolver switched off completely. With DI + Z Control, the sound became somewhat darker and more covered, almost as if a thick cloth had been placed in front of the speaker cabinet, regardless of the Z value I tried.

That said, I also realize that doing full justice to the DI + Z Control mode would probably require adjusting the entire preset setup around that function, rather than simply switching it on for presets that were originally designed to run completely cab-free into my real-cab chain. So I would not take my first experiment as a final judgement on the feature itself.

I still think the idea is very interesting, and I would certainly be happy to hear any suggestions for adapting the presets specifically for use with DI + Z Control. It may well be that a dedicated version of the bank, voiced around that function from the start, would make more sense than just adding it to the existing cab-free presets.

For my own real-cab chain, the cab-free version still seems to be the better match at the moment, but I can definitely see the value of exploring a separate optional DI + Z Control bank for users whose setups might benefit from that approach.

Thank you again for taking the time to try the presets and for the helpful suggestion.

Best regards from Germany,
Björn

You certainly put in a lot of effort, thanks so much !