Santana style leads with Miracle Man and Paper&Oil Cap

[hunter]

Normally I never use my tone pot, but today I played a bit with smoothing out the MM using it (in fact I put a NOS P&O cap in my McCarty quite a while ago, never using it).

So here is a clip with Ch4 on the Poundcake, got a Lexicon MX200 (cheapo but great sounding) FX unit in the loop, an SM57 on the Vintage30 and a Sennheiser 609 on the H30 speaker. Volume is REALLY low, you can hear that as the sound is not so much in yer face as it would be if I'd add a notch on the master. But too early here to rip it up.

Enjoy the clip. I am turning tone up and down as I go.

http://www.netmusicians.org/files/92-santanesque.mp3

[Mr. Air]

That really sounded well and very Santana like. I didn't think the Miracle Man could pull off the job, but I'm impressed. Also very Santana like playing from you, Hunter. Makes it all that more Santanaesque.

How's the cleans from the Miracle Man. As far as i know it doesn't exactly shine when it comes to the cleans.

[hunter]

Thanks for the kudos :O)

To be honest, I haven't tried it clean, I hardly use bridge HBs on cleans actually. I have played in breakup/crunch tones yesterday and it was deep and thick, really nice.

The MM reacts a lot to string distance, like any BKP, and after starting very high, I lowered it now on the plain strings side, that mellows it out a tad.

[roland_rat]

very nice im surprised just how well the pickup handles it. Great tone and tasty playing!

[LP_LOVER]

Hunter, why did you mention about the Paper&Oil Cap? I don't think it has anything to do with the tone of the Miracle Man.

[FELINEGUITARS]

Hunter, why did you mention about the Paper&Oil Cap? I don't think it has anything to do with the tone of the Miracle Man.

My experience is that the old style paper and oil caps do have an influence on tone - even when your tone is full up
I've been using Vitamin Q caps for a while and it seems to smooth out the tone a bit - loses any rough edges

[hunter]

Hunter, why did you mention about the Paper&Oil Cap? I don't think it has anything to do with the tone of the Miracle Man.

Because I used the tone pot quite a bit in the clip, the cap has a big influence on the tone. Maybe even as Jonathan says, whe the tone pot is up full, but definitely when it's turned down.

[FernandoDuarte]

Sounds cool, but (perhaps because of the keyboard) it sounds a little 80's

[LP_LOVER]

Hunter, why did you mention about the Paper&Oil Cap? I don't think it has anything to do with the tone of the Miracle Man.

Because I used the tone pot quite a bit in the clip, the cap has a big influence on the tone. Maybe even as Jonathan says, whe the tone pot is up full, but definitely when it's turned down.

Ok, that makes perfect sense.

I enjoyed your clip!