Line 6 · Helix preset

Queens Victoria

For Queens Victoria by Queens of the Stone Age

The Victoria amp has helped me hunt down the tone I've been looking for for years. A thick tone, good mids that sounds heavy but without being overly gainy. I haven't added Snapshots yet, so you can use this in 10 stomp mode. With all of the stomps turned off, it's a nice, dirty tone. I've tried to include a batch of different stomps that will significantly alter the sound without going too high-gain - though you an get fuzzed out of your gourd. The EP Comp is set to push the Victoria into a natural dirty OD, adding in the PDF Mid-Boost throws hair on the sound. In fact, the PDF Boost is probably the most significant stomp on here. It adds a bunch of mids that take the sound from OD to near-fuzz, but musical fuzz (I love fuzz, but I find it hard to dial in on modelers). The Thrifter (great pedal BTW) and Big Muff round out the drives. Evil Octave is a close simulation of Homme's The Evil Has Landed into sound. The Space Echo's feedback setting is mapped to Exp 2, as is the Uni-Vibe's rate. This isn't exact QotSA, but I can get very convincing Homme thickness out of this. FWIW, I did this using my Mascis Jazzmaster and I found the results outstanding. I've been playing through the EoDM version of Moonage Daydream and tuning down to C for Mexicola - very satisfying. Good basic Sabbath as well. [At the beginning of B1 is a greyed out LA Comp. It's not mapped to a FS, but I usually use that as a sweetener, like adding some comp at the mixing desk. I have it off, but you can play with it. The effect is subtle and one I usually use, but the Vicki doesn't seem to need it]

Created by chrisjw5