What are your favorite free DI profiles?

  • I'm receiving a tube power amp tomorrow! I was curious to see which preamp/direct profiles y'all have found to be your favorite. Looking for a range of tones, but love cleans, Jet City crunches, 5150 iii distortion rhythm & leads, and I'm curious to see how an ambient tone sounds!

    Thanks ^^

  • Cleans:


    Cleans are my thing and I have a propensity toward Fender Blonde/Brownface era sounding amps with 6L6s


    John Tyler's - 1962 Blonde Bassman

    Boogiem's - 63 Vibroverb

    Bert Meulendijk's - Fan Showgirl 1962

    Pino Supertino's - Line 6 Pod Pro (for a more compressed clean for jazz)

    ZAP's - Polytone MB IV (for jazz and more middy sounding cleans)

    Giacomo's - Mesa V Twin - 6L6 (for extra low end)


    I usually put in the following stomps on clean amps to make these clean profiles flexible for many sounds from clean to grit to grind. :

    [ Comp - TrebleBooster - Green Scream (low gain) - Green Scream or Mouse (medium gain) ]


    I use the Treble Boost set up for brightening the sound not increasing the volume.


    Medium Grit:

    Luckbad's - Ethos Overdrive

    Heater's - Heaters Kingsley DL30

    M. Wienstroer's -Fan (65 Bassman)

    Joptones' -Trainwreck Express


    Brown:

    Joptunes' - JTM50BF (Bridge pickup)

    And44's - Brown+Timmy D/13


    Actually I think there are dozens of great vintage Marshall and 5150 profiles. People don't seem to have much difficulty making profiles of these that I like.


    It is the cleans that are tricky and combining them with the right reverb makes all the difference to me.