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MrBump

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Nailbombs => Blackstar HT Dual => Orange => JAPE!
« on: January 24, 2008, 08:53:46 PM »
This one started off as a Gary Moore-type thing, but didn't end up that way.  Just me messing around with a piano synth and getting some ambient "jape" onto an already nice tone - the sound is really wet!

It's taking ages to adjust the Nailbombs to a hight that works for me - still not there yet.

But working on it!

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Forgive the cr@p keyboard work.

Mark.
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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2008, 09:13:39 PM »
Thats a great tone, your clips keep getting better and better. Didnt really like the first one you put up but this is a vast improvement imo. Do some riffage with those same settings :D
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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2008, 10:35:29 PM »
That sounds really cool!  The guitar tone goes well with the piano.
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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2008, 10:51:09 PM »
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your clips keep getting better and better


Thanks very much, appreciate it.  I think that I'm starting to appreciate the whole sound generation thing.  To be honest, I've spent years (literally) just using multi FX and modelling pedals, and the whole "organic" tone thing is really new to me, despite having played pretty seriously for 20+ years..!

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2008, 10:58:21 PM »
Nice tone! 8)
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2008, 02:16:57 AM »
ZOMGz AWSOME TONE!! Sooo rich and full, and very soulful playing!
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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2008, 09:37:55 AM »
Nice tone!

HT-Dual green channel?  Doesn't sound noisy enough for the red  ;)
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« Reply #7 on: January 25, 2008, 10:56:39 AM »
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HT-Dual green channel? Doesn't sound noisy enough for the red


Red channel.  I know that the Blackstar Dual debate is going on elsewhere on this forum, but I find the two channels VERY different!

I was trying to get something like that intro to The Loner on Gary Moores Wild Frontier album (his finest, IMO).  Not quite there, but I think it's getting close...

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« Reply #8 on: January 25, 2008, 11:06:28 AM »
Nice attempt!

I find the red channel can be a bit noisy when the gain is up high, so I tend to have it around 10 o'clock.  Where did you have it for that clip?
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« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2008, 11:48:40 AM »
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so I tend to have it around 10 o'clock


...  gosh, I was playing with the settings a lot...

I think it was around 12 O'clock.  I was playing quite loud for a home setting, but not loud enough for the higher gain settings to be anything but fizzy.  Also, I find less gain seems to work quite well with this particular setup.
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« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2008, 12:18:52 PM »
Less is usually more, in my experience!  Low gain, and dig in hard  ;)
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2008, 08:50:06 PM »
Wow. Great tone, and amazing playing
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« Reply #12 on: January 28, 2008, 04:16:58 AM »
Very nice tone!
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« Reply #13 on: January 28, 2008, 01:49:43 PM »
Oddly I have just had the best of Gary Moore in the CD player - the loner is a particular favourite of mine from him as well.

Your getting a very nice tone there and well recorded. I like the variations you bring to the main theme, but i would have been tempted to change key in the 'middle' bit to add more variety IMHO, but some really nice ideas going here and well worth fleshing out  - I liked it a lot :)
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« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2008, 12:39:54 PM »
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i would have been tempted to change key in the 'middle' bit to add more variety


Change key?!?!  My skills as a pianist do NOT stretch to changing key...

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