Iron maiden Early 80 tone

 Recently i've been noodling on "Revelations" from "Piece of Mind" so i make my attemp to nail that tone.

It is pretty simple and it revolves aruond a classic plexi tone(remember that marshall amp works better with all tone knobs maxed):

As always i used the delay to "double" the guitar and added a touch of reverb. I think that maybe a plate would have been closer but i like out it sound this way,

Then i've tried to push this peset with some overdrive and got some good tone for "Loasfer Word (the big horra)" from "Powerlave". Oddly to get a closer i had to switch off the usual delay-doubler.

Here are settings of the fender overdrive for the leads:

May look like a joke but all you need is push the plexi so it works best this way... When you play liquid, rounded lead solo the full basses will help your tone. Also remember when you play that type of lead you need to be gentle in your picking attack and led the gain stages do the work.

Add delay to taste. I did no research on that so i will not screenshot a setting. i use a standard 20-30% mix with a 250ms near or less. Standard.

And finally the rythm tone for powerslave. The same plexi setting but we need to get the bass tight so:

At the time Murray had one of this in his rig:

As a bouns, if you add some chorus you can get a pretty decent tone for the interlude of "Wasting love".

Here's my subtle settings:

Maybe i should try with a flanger...

Here's some more Iron Maiden if you like:

http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.com/2016/09/resource-review-blog-with-iron-maiden.html

http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.com/2013/07/fender-mustang-iron-maiden-preset.html

Harley Benton DNAfx GiT REVIEW vs Mooer GE 150

 Today Harley Benton announced its first multi effect unit. It is priced at 144€ and goes directly against the MOOER GE 150 that goes for 159€ at thomann.de .

So many of us are wondering for a review that answer to the question: will the DNAFX sound better than the GE150?

The answer is her: it will not because it is the same unit!

Let's have a look at the basic specs:

55 amps

26 cabs

impulse response loader

up to 9 effect from a list of 151

An 80 seconds looper.

This are exacly the same of the Mooer GE 150.

But if you are not convinced, let's have a look to some other detail.

This is the back of the  units:

Also the size is similar.

Here are the controls:

As you can see we have the same konbs, the same buttons and the same lights.

So i think that if you want to know if the hb dnafx is the baregain for you all you have to do is have a look at some of the mooer ge 150 review. It is a good unit for the price.

How do it mesures in my point of view?

Effect chain is fixed and this may look like a problem, but you have the ability to get pitch shifter and delay together and this is a big point.

You only have only 2 stomps so if you want to use a 3 presets setup (clean, rythm and solo) you may need to stomp twice to change from clean to solo and back. No the fastest way. There may be other tricks like make a sequence of repating preset (ex: solo, clean, rythm, clean, rythm, solo) and go always up or control the gain with the pedal but they may work or not for you.

I would have prefer to have an extra switch instead of the pedal but it may be an interesting choice, especially for the price.

New Slash Tone Preset - Guns and Roses Era

I was revisiting my preset list to make room for a new one (post coming soon) and i found myself reworking the old Slash preset.

As i gain experience i found myself wanting different thing. And it is ok.

The original preset

http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.com/2013/08/slash-preset-appetite-for-destruction.html

was done with the intro from Sweet child o'mine in mind. I was searching for that attack and that gain and tone.

I was happy with the job but i find myself wanting something that is a bit more flexible so i set to less gain and less highs and some more bass. Obviously this has been done in the overdrive stomp.

Here is a screen of the thing:

This allows me to move better in the territory of the Marshall/JCM tone by using the volume knob. It works nicely also without the overdrive stomp but if you have read this

http://ridingthemustang.blogspot.com/2020/07/gain-stages-compression-and-tone-stacks.html

You will know that i like better the tone from layered overdrives. An interesting note is that the British 80 model is based on the JCM800 and this amp has a clipping stage to add gain to  the gain channell. In fact i think that the JCM800 was the first Marshall to use this "trick". So it is like this preset is using at least 3 stage of gain: the stomp, the brit pre and a clipping stage that i guess is reproduced by the Fender modeling.

Enjoy!