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The Ultimate AmpliTube 5 Presets List: A Complete Guide to Every Factory Rig

If you have ever opened IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube 5, you know the feeling: hundreds of amps, cabinets, stompboxes, and microphones staring back at you. While the sheer power is exhilarating, it can also be paralyzing. Where do you start?

That’s where the AmpliTube 5 presets list becomes your best friend. Presets (or "Rigs" as AmpliTube calls them) are pre-assembled signal chains designed to emulate specific songs, artists, or tones. Whether you play blues, metal, pop, or experimental ambient music, there is a preset waiting for you.

In this guide, we will provide the most detailed AmpliTube 5 presets list available, breaking down every factory category, highlighting the hidden gems, and showing you how to navigate the massive library in the latest 5.7.0 update. amplitube 5 presets list

The "Desert Island" Presets (Must-Try List)

If you are scrolling through AmpliTube 5 right now, stop and search for these specific factory preset names (assuming you have the standard gear):

• “American Clean 1” – The perfect pedal platform. Flat EQ, dynamic response.
• “British Crunch 2” – That classic "Brown Sound" from the late 70s.
• “Modern Recto V30” – The definitive nu-metal chug. Tighten it with a Tube Screamer in front.
• “Ambient Dream” – Swells of reverb and delay. Great for post-rock.
• “Bass SVT Fridge” – The sound of every rock record from the 70s to the 90s.

Hidden Gems: The Best CS (Custom Shop) Presets

The CS presets are demos that allow you to test premium gear for 72 hours. However, many users don't realize that some CS presets use only free gear. Here is a sub-list of free CS presets that actually work with the base version: The Ultimate AmpliTube 5 Presets List: A Complete

• Clean Dream – A beautiful Fender Twin reverb sound (Free gear only)
• Brown Sound – Eddie Van Halen "Eruption" tone (Uses free Distortion pedal)
• Metal Zone Mayhem – A joke preset that actually makes the Boss Metal Zone sound good.
• Acoustic Simulator – Turns your electric guitar into a decent piezo acoustic.

Appendix: Quick Reference – 10 Most Downloaded Factory Presets (2024-2026 Data)

| Rank | Preset Name | Category | |------|-------------|----------| | 1 | “Nirvana In Utero” | Rock | | 2 | “John Mayer Slow Dancing” | Clean | | 3 | “Metallica MOP Rhythm” | Metal | | 4 | “SRV Texas Flood” | Blues | | 5 | “Van Halen Jump” | Lead | | 6 | “Tool Schism Clean” | Clean | | 7 | “Slipknot Psychosocial” | Metal | | 8 | “The Edge U2 Delay” | Rock | | 9 | “Flea Bass Funk” | Bass | | 10 | “Synth Pad Swell” | Special FX |

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If you need an actual machine-readable .tsv or .csv list of all preset names, please request that separately. “American Clean 1” – The perfect pedal platform

Hidden Gems: The "Artist" Presets You Must Try

Even if you don’t own the official Slash or Dimebag collections, Amplitube 5 comes with demo versions of artist presets. These are often the best-mixed tones.

• Slash – "Appetite" : A slightly overdriven JCM800 with a Specific EQ curve. Great for GNR covers.
• Dimebag Darrell – "Cowboy from Hell" : Uses the Randall Warhead model. Massive scooped mids.
• Brian May – "Bohemian" : Six treble boosters into an AC30. Instant Queen solo tone.
• Satriani – "Satch Surf" : High headroom clean with a specific delay slapback.

Overview

AmpliTube 5 is a guitar/bass amp-and-effects modeling software with a large library of factory and user presets. Presets combine cabinets, amps, microphone placement, effects chain, routing, and speaker/room models to produce ready-to-play tones for styles from clean to extreme metal.

7. Limitations of the Presets List

• Inconsistent naming in older factory presets (e.g., “Good Tone 12”).
• No subfolder nesting beyond one level in the user area (as of v5.6).
• Missing BPM sync tags for delay/reverb presets.