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  1. Great, today I didn't have the time to play a lot but I enjoyed them yesterday for about 8 hours!! Moreover, today I broke my top E string and I didn't have any spare nor a full pack of strings, so now I've only got the lower 5 strings - and I hate playing like that. I guess I'm not enough Rolling Stone fan to like it
  2. Found a Bad tone that I think is really close to the UF tour tone. Ignore the playing, the clip is all for tone :laugh:

    Strat - > M13 - >ZT Lunchbox

    I find the ZT has that trebly-nazal property that Edge's quack tone had back then. It's great for that tone, maybe even better than the AC30 :shutup:

    http://soundcloud.com/rattleandhum1988/bad-tone-test

    Let me know what you think

    Alex
  3. Alex, the more you keep demoing the Lunchbox, the sooner I'm going to buy one. STOP!!!
  4. Sounds terrific!! What did you record it with? Line-in into something or microphone?
  5. Thanks guys! And Matt you ARE going to buy it. It's your destiny.

    Sergio, when I record I use an SM57 mic to mic the amp (literally touching the grill/mesh of the amp) that goes into a M-Audio USB Recording Interface, and using a USB cable that goes into my computer. The unfortunate thing is that there IS a tiny bit of latency (when I hit a note, the computer picks it up about .7 seconds later) so whenever I record with a backing track, or do any multi-track recording, I have to cut out the first .7 seconds of the newly recorded track so it's all in sync. At first it was a huge pain in the ass, but after a while it's easy. I've gotten used to cutting out that little part from the beginning and it's no biggie now.

    Alex
  6. Ok, I got it.
    But you play+record with the backing track playing through headphones to your ears, don't you? Otherwise, the microphone that mics the amp would also pick the backing track 's sound and it would be worse, phase problems with the latency and all.
  7. Originally posted by LikeASong:Ok, I got it.
    But you play+record with the backing track playing through headphones to your ears, don't you? Otherwise, the microphone that mics the amp would also pick the backing track 's sound and it would be worse, phase problems with the latency and all.


    Nah I play the backing track through speakers. Just not loud enough for the mic to pick it up. There's also a little divider between where the amp/mic are and where my computer speakers are, to block out any sound. I've tried with headphones, and the result isn't any different, I just prefer being able to hear my guitar playing just as clearly so I can hear what I'm doing better than if I was listening to the backing track through headphones. If there was no latency at all I could listen to BOTH through headphones while recording (there's an option to do that), but because of the latency it totally messed it all up.

    but yeah, the way most people do it is to listen to the backing track through headphones and record with a mic that way.
  8. Anybody know how to get a nice sound for Angel of Harlem? It sounds like a light distortion but I think there's something missing


  9. very cool ive been even more in love with this song after hearing it in melbourne
  10. Originally posted by jofice:Anybody know how to get a nice sound for Angel of Harlem? It sounds like a light distortion but I think there's something missing


    The album version? Try a 60's 12 string ricky, that'll do the trick!

    That's the main sound of the tone here. The unique tone of the rickenbacker. Other than that, I'd just say it's a light overdrive and PERHAPS some slapback delay, or some longer fill-in delays that are extremely quiet, but I don't think so.

    As for live versions (like slane and vertigo tours) probably just light overdrive and perhaps a tiny bit of compression.
  11. If you don't own or don't have the money to own a 360-12 Rickenbacker (like most of us, sadly), then go to slight distortion/overdrive and play around with the chorus (not the delay). The chorus can easily make (y)our poor 6 strings guitar like a shiny, brand new 12 strings one.


  12. Alex its crazy to imagine me seeing your videos a few years back. youve progressed so much man you real nail it now!!!!
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