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So how do you go about making a good tone? Where do I start when I wanna make a djent tone? Or 80s metal, or a good jazz sexy delay type tone? Or one of those fat juicy Gibson rock n roll tones?
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Quick clip to test out some new layered drum samples and try a different Redwirez IR with my HD500 + Ibanez TAM10.
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Quick clip to test out some new layered drum samples and try a different Redwirez IR with my HD500 + Ibanez TAM10.
I usually try experimenting with different amp models first. After that I slap a distortion pedal in front of it and see where that goes.
Here's a patch I use for jamming:
Custom Tone
If I want to use that patch for recording, I kill the echo and reverb because they're just there to make it sound bigger.
I made a video on my discoveries for tweaking the Pod HD series, mainly to get around the issues that people have been having with these units. Now, the tone I made isn't GREAT, but I would say I managed to combat several of the problems that people have been complaining about and that I've experienced myself as well.
So I hope it's educational enough to help you tweak your patches!![]()
I made a video on my discoveries for tweaking the Pod HD series, mainly to get around the issues that people have been having with these units. Now, the tone I made isn't GREAT, but I would say I managed to combat several of the problems that people have been complaining about and that I've experienced myself as well.
So I hope it's educational enough to help you tweak your patches!![]()
Any setting with two "normal" guitar inputs absolutely (in every instance I've tried) doubles the noise floor. I always set it to SPDIF or Variax, since digital inputs don't have that issue. And yeah, the noise gate rolls off the highs quite a bit if you turn the threshold too high. But I'm sure there's some guitar-specific variance with both of those.
How do you get that to sound so good? I just picked up a 500x and I can't seem to create a tone that doesn't sound like a garbage disposal. Speakers, headphones, it's all the same. I've even tried MeAmBobbo's patches, but nothing sounds remotely close to a lot of the tracks I see in this thread.
Guitar setup is an iceman with emg 60/81, tuned drop A#
Again, I really haven't noticed any loss of high end with the gates, other than the usual oddities that happens when you push any gate too hard. If it's there, I don't suffer from it though, as my pickups and settings are pretty damn bright![]()
I don't have any problems with the noise being higher either when using the "same" setting, other than the signal simply being louder. I will do a test of this specifically later though, as I can compare it and see what REALLY happens when you turn that on!