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CrossWire articles and tone tutorials
Everything here documents the real software. The guides break down each effect node and workflow with its actual knobs, ranges and voicing values; the tone tutorials build 14 complete rigs you can recall by Rig Seed and hear on your own canvas.
14effect and workflow guides
14complete tone tutorials, recallable by seed
11effect-node references with exact values
Tone tutorials · complete rigs
Classical GuitarA warm, articulate clean chain, slow opto-style compression into the Fender Tweed Clean model, a…Blues GuitarA responsive edge-of-breakup voice: a Tube-Screamer-style OVERDRIVE into the Marshall JCM800 2204…Country BluesA pushed tweed voice with TREM and REVERB running as parallel lanes into MIX nodes, movement and…Country RockClear, assertive twang on the Lab Series L5 clean platform, with a screamer OVERDRIVE for authority…Heavy MetalA tight, articulate high-gain rhythm chain: engaged GATE, heavy TIGHT filtering and a limiter-style…RockA flexible British crunch: hot screamer into the Marshall JCM800 2204 model and V30 4x12, with a…Rock & RollAn open plexi roar, the Marshall 1959 Super Lead model with PRESENCE at 8.2 into a bright Jensen…PunkA bone-dry, mid-forward wall: RAT-style DIST into the JCM800 2204 model cranked to GAIN 8.3, a…Jazz GuitarThe simplest rig in the collection: the Lab Series L5 clean platform, an open-back 2x12, a smile EQ…Surf GuitarA dark tweed clean with a genuine hall, REVERB SIZE 7.4 at the end of the chain is the splash, and…Funk GuitarA completely dry rhythm machine: the Lab Series L5 at GAIN 1.2, a smile EQ, and a COMP whose slow…Indie GuitarA driven JCM800 core with three ambience lanes, CHORUS, DELAY and a big REVERB, running in parallel…Shoegaze GuitarA fuzz-into-plexi wall with a gate holding it on a leash, and CHORUS, DELAY and a SIZE-9.1 wash…Ambient GuitarThree parallel lanes off one quiet core: CHORUS, a long DELAY and SPACE, CrossWire’s generative…
Effect nodes
How to use reverb with guitarspace and depth without losing the dry attackHow to use delay with guitarrepeats that serve the rhythm, not smear itHow to use chorus with guitarwidth and movement below the wobble thresholdHow to use flanger with guitarjet sweep and comb filtering, deployed sparinglyHow to use phaser with guitarswirl and motion that survives a full takeHow to use tremolo with guitarpulsing volume locked to the grooveHow to use overdrive with guitarpush the amp; don’t replace itHow to use distortion with guitartight saturation chosen by family, not amountHow to use fuzz with guitarcompressed harmonic bloom with a working volume potHow to use a noise gate with guitarsilence between phrases without amputated tailsHow to use EQ with guitarfrequency decisions you can read back as numbers
Workflow
Every rig on this page is recallable by Rig Seed inside CrossWire. The Rig Market is where the community shares theirs.