ktran
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Posted: Dec. 05 2005, 23:05 |
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Brandon (Musically Inspired) posted a bunch of patches some years back, so you can try a search for that.
But... I suggest, as a 505 owner/user myself, to just trust your ears, and to use a "less is more" approach with the pedal. It's very easy to get an over-processed sound with it, so my advice would be to hold back on the effects levels and use "just enough."
With MO's sound, there are so many factors involved (guitar used, pickups, volume/tone controls, amp, effects, studio tweaking, fingering and picking technique), that the best anyone can ever get is an approximation anyhow.
That being said, his more recognisable clean tones come from a single-coil neck-position pickup, with the tone rolled off somewhat. On the pedal, give it a touch of delay and reverb, and most importantly, as much compression as it'll give you ;-)
For distorted tones, the compression is still high, but I'd lay off the distortion/overdrive. He gets his earlier sustain in his distortion sound more from compression than from overdrive. MO uses some pretty ugly distortion tones on the Guitars album that I'd like to avoid anyhow (for that one, turn off the amp sim, crank the "dist" mode, and use a bit of wah). The tones I like best come with a bit of the OD distortion model, with, again, some subtle delay (but max time), and max out on the compression level. He also uses an autowah from time to time.
Keep playing, and have fun. But remember, MO didn't become famous by emulating other people's guitar sounds!
rgds,
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Khoa Tran
www.suspendedseconds.ca
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