While I wrote the effect guide I made some discover so, after I made some test, I started tweaking every preset, actually for reverb type and delay settings.
With the right reverb every thing sound even better.
I uploaded my new piezo 7 preset, now with small room reverb and a little 20% delay.
Sounds really good for 'a change of season ' but I really like it for 'Wasting love' arpeggios.
I must say that this preset was originally intended for the 7 string guitar and also the RGD witch is very bassy, but this new version sounds really good also on the SZ, not only with the central position (both HB single splitted) but also with the full humbucker.
Maybe i will free the Piezo 6 slot for something else...
Here is the link
https://fuse.fender.com/mustangv2/presets/mordor74-piezo-acustic-7-string-petrucci
martedì 30 luglio 2013
giovedì 18 luglio 2013
The most Metal reverb: Fender '63!
Ok, last night i had a session of experiment with some funny info i collected for the guide.
I give a test to all the delays to better understand it.
But the surprise was with the reverbs!
I usually use small and large room, sometime ambience with some setting that needs to be widen.
I wanted my Satriani preset to sound "more vintage" so i replaced the small room reverb with the '63... What an hungry reverb! It really enance the high freq. I immediately test it with a more Metal sound... and this is the result:
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-erotomania-ts63
I forgot to upload the previous version if someone want to test the difference, i will soon!
I give a test to all the delays to better understand it.
But the surprise was with the reverbs!
I usually use small and large room, sometime ambience with some setting that needs to be widen.
I wanted my Satriani preset to sound "more vintage" so i replaced the small room reverb with the '63... What an hungry reverb! It really enance the high freq. I immediately test it with a more Metal sound... and this is the result:
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-erotomania-ts63
I forgot to upload the previous version if someone want to test the difference, i will soon!
venerdì 12 luglio 2013
Reaper problem with Fender ASIO
The recording season is here again.
I know that Ableton comes free with the Mustang, but i found more confortable with simpler tools.
So i use Sonoma Riffworks T4 http://www.sonomawireworks.com/T4/ for the composition and Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/ for the "live" recording. Both are free!
Since i reinstall my PC with a brand new SSD disk i also installed Reaper, everything in 64bit flavor!
But Reaper crashed everytime i opened the config page for Fender ASIO.
The problem is Fender ASIO being 32bit only.
But good new is that you can swap Fender ASIO with the official ASIO4ALL http://www.asio4all.com/ and everything will fix ok!
Bye!
I know that Ableton comes free with the Mustang, but i found more confortable with simpler tools.
So i use Sonoma Riffworks T4 http://www.sonomawireworks.com/T4/ for the composition and Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/ for the "live" recording. Both are free!
Since i reinstall my PC with a brand new SSD disk i also installed Reaper, everything in 64bit flavor!
But Reaper crashed everytime i opened the config page for Fender ASIO.
The problem is Fender ASIO being 32bit only.
But good new is that you can swap Fender ASIO with the official ASIO4ALL http://www.asio4all.com/ and everything will fix ok!
Bye!
giovedì 11 luglio 2013
Fender Mustang Preset - Drive Solo Chorus v4
My drive solo preset!
I always liked that evil high cutting sound, so i made one of this preset in anyplatform i use since the old Boss Vf1.
Basically is Treble all the way up both in the amp and in the stomp, a good amount of gain (never too much!) and a small cut for bass and mids. I use the American 90 (Mesa!) with SEG at the minimum but can be done pretty well with the METAL2000 too...
It is also a decent riff workhorse, i will say an allround rock metal patch.
This is v4 since i get the Mustang so it is a pretty mature preset. I gived it a good amount of dimension with a chrous and a wide type reverb.
Obviously i used the delay for double guitar effect!
Here is the link, since i am slowly uploading all my work ;)
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-drive-solo-chorus-v4
And here is a picture:
I always liked that evil high cutting sound, so i made one of this preset in anyplatform i use since the old Boss Vf1.
Basically is Treble all the way up both in the amp and in the stomp, a good amount of gain (never too much!) and a small cut for bass and mids. I use the American 90 (Mesa!) with SEG at the minimum but can be done pretty well with the METAL2000 too...
It is also a decent riff workhorse, i will say an allround rock metal patch.
This is v4 since i get the Mustang so it is a pretty mature preset. I gived it a good amount of dimension with a chrous and a wide type reverb.
Obviously i used the delay for double guitar effect!
Here is the link, since i am slowly uploading all my work ;)
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-drive-solo-chorus-v4
And here is a picture:
mercoledì 10 luglio 2013
Fender Mustang Iron Maiden Preset
Rock'n'roll!
Tonight i uploaded a nice preset i made to play Losfer words from Iron Maiden.
In the beginning i made some test with the british models, but then i jump back to my classic tools:
Fender Bassman!
I choose my Tube Screamer "blues boost" setting on the OVERDRIVE stomp to feed a 7.5 of gain of the bassman. Put a lot of mids, a decent treble quantity of treble and a generous "almost 6" of bass.
Open up a bit with some presences and the most its done.
I did not double it delay or pitch shifter, that was rich enough.
But the lesson i learn today was somewhere else.
For the first time i made an use of the guitar volume in an overdriven environement.
I rolled the volume back a bit to find the right drive and response to my picking. I needed to pick the strings hard without mudding the chords and this was the right solution. The Mustang is very responsive to guitar volume and different picking and this is a lot of fun, but you need to manage it correctly to sound best.
Maybe this could be done in other way: stomp box level or amp gain, but i choose the guitar volume and it tooks me where i want.
The other thing is reverb. I tried the Hall reverbs but everything gets a bit muddy so i got back to the beloved spring models and with the good amount i got the feeling i wanted.
The preset, with my Ibanez SZ, is a close match but with some difference , a little bit more modern sounding (a 5% :) ) and a little bit thick&grind just the way i like it!
Here is the link to download the preset:
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-bassman-maiden
And this is a screenshot:
Enjoy and up the Irons!
M
Tonight i uploaded a nice preset i made to play Losfer words from Iron Maiden.
In the beginning i made some test with the british models, but then i jump back to my classic tools:
Fender Bassman!
I choose my Tube Screamer "blues boost" setting on the OVERDRIVE stomp to feed a 7.5 of gain of the bassman. Put a lot of mids, a decent treble quantity of treble and a generous "almost 6" of bass.
Open up a bit with some presences and the most its done.
I did not double it delay or pitch shifter, that was rich enough.
But the lesson i learn today was somewhere else.
For the first time i made an use of the guitar volume in an overdriven environement.
I rolled the volume back a bit to find the right drive and response to my picking. I needed to pick the strings hard without mudding the chords and this was the right solution. The Mustang is very responsive to guitar volume and different picking and this is a lot of fun, but you need to manage it correctly to sound best.
Maybe this could be done in other way: stomp box level or amp gain, but i choose the guitar volume and it tooks me where i want.
The other thing is reverb. I tried the Hall reverbs but everything gets a bit muddy so i got back to the beloved spring models and with the good amount i got the feeling i wanted.
The preset, with my Ibanez SZ, is a close match but with some difference , a little bit more modern sounding (a 5% :) ) and a little bit thick&grind just the way i like it!
Here is the link to download the preset:
https://fuse.fender.com/mustang/presets/mordor74-bassman-maiden
And this is a screenshot:
Enjoy and up the Irons!
M
mercoledì 8 agosto 2012
DAY 8: preset memories management Pt.1
I am writing this to clarify my ideas.
I stored all the preset for the RGD and 7 string in the orange bank:
Heavy oriented for guitars with a lot of basses
The red bank is for SZ and other guitars, again heavy oriented:
And, finallym the green bank is for blues to hard rock presets:
There are a number of tips i'm using to order the presets:
# - Clean tones
G - Clean or slight dirty ( Insane preset should be moved elsewhere)
A - M2K allround
C - American 90 allround
B - Solo presets
D - Megadeth/Metallica/Trash, only the red is a Marshall, i have no other marshall models in the banks
E - Should also be for Solo presets but more melodic side
F - maybe another clean zone
Some slot still to with default tone, but they will go soon. I have a big number of tones in my library with 5-6 version of every tone i am working at in the preset library.
Preset in the Mustang are selected to be in some way peculiar, such has dinamic response or bass response.
Example:
Insane: very strong in the armonic department, like you have a totally different amp
ENGL amb: fake an ENGL amplifier, not very strong in the palm muting zone but still a very peculiar flavor and ambience
Raw boomer: a Mesa with a lot of Bass response
Erotomania: very very good for palm muting riffing and also good in soloing, but without the classic delay setting for solos
Continue...
I stored all the preset for the RGD and 7 string in the orange bank:
The red bank is for SZ and other guitars, again heavy oriented:
And, finallym the green bank is for blues to hard rock presets:
There are a number of tips i'm using to order the presets:
# - Clean tones
G - Clean or slight dirty ( Insane preset should be moved elsewhere)
A - M2K allround
C - American 90 allround
B - Solo presets
D - Megadeth/Metallica/Trash, only the red is a Marshall, i have no other marshall models in the banks
E - Should also be for Solo presets but more melodic side
F - maybe another clean zone
Some slot still to with default tone, but they will go soon. I have a big number of tones in my library with 5-6 version of every tone i am working at in the preset library.
Preset in the Mustang are selected to be in some way peculiar, such has dinamic response or bass response.
Example:
Insane: very strong in the armonic department, like you have a totally different amp
ENGL amb: fake an ENGL amplifier, not very strong in the palm muting zone but still a very peculiar flavor and ambience
Raw boomer: a Mesa with a lot of Bass response
Erotomania: very very good for palm muting riffing and also good in soloing, but without the classic delay setting for solos
Continue...
venerdì 27 luglio 2012
Day 7: british heads and stranger cabs
I read many things about cabs emulation on the net recently, here is some useful info.
First of all, a list of equivalence:
57DLX = 1x12" 1957 Fender Deluxe [unknown] speaker
BSSMN = 4x10" Jensen speakers
65DLX = 1x12" Jensen C12Q speaker
65PRN = 1x10" Jensen C10R speaker
CHAMP = 1x8" 1957 Fender Champ[unknown] speaker
4x12M = 4x12" Celestion G12T-75 speakers
2x12C = 2x12" VOC AC30 [unknown] speakers
4x12G = 4x12" Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
65TWN = 2x12" Jensen C12N speakers
4x12V = 4x12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers
SS212 = 2x12" Eminence speakers
SS112 = 1x12" Celestion Vintage 30 / Celestion Alnico Blues
I usually select the 4x12V that gives you the best tone if you like you palm muted E string to be defined and "raw!
I also read a post that suggested to use the SS112 (that is a 1x12 cab with v30 or alnico blues speaker and give a similar sound but a bit more "vintage") to get a decent tone with the brit models.
Indeed it works well, i found i can sort out a decent tone from the brits if i back the bass knob under 4 (11 oclock), keep the middle above 4 and dont go too far with the gain knob!
First of all, a list of equivalence:
57DLX = 1x12" 1957 Fender Deluxe [unknown] speaker
BSSMN = 4x10" Jensen speakers
65DLX = 1x12" Jensen C12Q speaker
65PRN = 1x10" Jensen C10R speaker
CHAMP = 1x8" 1957 Fender Champ[unknown] speaker
4x12M = 4x12" Celestion G12T-75 speakers
2x12C = 2x12" VOC AC30 [unknown] speakers
4x12G = 4x12" Celestion G12M Greenback speakers
65TWN = 2x12" Jensen C12N speakers
4x12V = 4x12" Celestion Vintage 30 speakers
SS212 = 2x12" Eminence speakers
SS112 = 1x12" Celestion Vintage 30 / Celestion Alnico Blues
I usually select the 4x12V that gives you the best tone if you like you palm muted E string to be defined and "raw!
I also read a post that suggested to use the SS112 (that is a 1x12 cab with v30 or alnico blues speaker and give a similar sound but a bit more "vintage") to get a decent tone with the brit models.
Indeed it works well, i found i can sort out a decent tone from the brits if i back the bass knob under 4 (11 oclock), keep the middle above 4 and dont go too far with the gain knob!
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