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by my POD XTL! I don't think I am ever going to exhuast the tonal options on it. I had so much fun tonight. I sat down to make my patches for the worship list, and then realized by the time I was done, it was over 2 hours later, and I had only needed to make patches for 4 songs. I also finally used Customtone.com, cause I was having a hard time finding a good sound to use with my ebow. I found one that was close to what I wanted and then tweaked it the rest of the way, and now it sounds crazy awesome, and I am happy with my ebow again! So yeh, I am wicked happy right now.
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During the average worship set, I generally use 1 patch, when I'm feeling a little nuts, 2.
Speaking of tonight, though, I have just come back from a little funk/gospel gig, where I mainly used my Strat into the Matchless D-30 on the brink of breaking up, with a some chorus and the Boost stomp for extra dirt. This into my Yamaha T50C tube combo. Sounded great, of course.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. During the average worship set, I generally use 1 patch, when I'm feeling a little nuts, 2.
Speaking of tonight, though, I have just come back from a little funk/gospel gig, where I mainly used my Strat into the Matchless D-30 on the brink of breaking up, with a some chorus and the Boost stomp for extra dirt. This into my Yamaha T50C tube combo. Sounded great, of course. That sounds like a pretty cool gig.
Lol, I have at least one for every song. Up to 3 per song at this point, usually cause I will use a different amp for different parts of the song. For example, one song starts out with a lead tone from a dual rectifier for the intro, switches to muffled type marshall overdrive for the verse, and then uses a metal amp for the chorus. This week, we have an extra long list for a friday night service, and I think I have 10 patches. I set them all up in the first couple banks every week. See, my thing is, I get an idea in my head of what I want to sound like for a particular song (often for a particular part of a song too), and then I go try and craft that sound. A sound that satisfies me for one song will probably need some tweaking before it satisfies me for another even very similar song. Maybe I'm just crazy. Then all the patches for all the songs are stored in the last banks of the POD, so when we pull out something on the fly, like usually for the closing song, I can just scroll back through the banks to find it, and then I have my custom tone for every song right there.
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My tonal variations generally just go between distortion on/off, delay on/off, and tremolo/chorus on/off. For having all that modeling power at my feet, I still tend to keep it a bit simple.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. My tonal variations generally just go between distortion on/off, delay on/off, and tremolo/chorus on/off. For having all that modeling power at my feet, I still tend to keep it a bit simple. Here's my version of that, which is why I use different patches. Distortion to harder or different distortion, slight slapback delay to audible delay
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I also tend to bend down a few times to change things between songs as well.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. I also tend to bend down a few times to change things between songs as well. For some reason, I dislike doing that. That's why I like having patches, especially for delay. I used to have to reach down and adjust my delay all the time.
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I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants sort of guy. The problem is that I don't quite know what I want until I'm actually up there.
And the patch I used for my funk/gospel gig was very similar to the one I made for JFC123.
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Originally Posted by Rainer. I'm a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants sort of guy. The problem is that I don't quite know what I want until I'm actually up there.
And the patch I used for my funk/gospel gig was very similar to the one I made for JFC123. I am for pretty much of what I do, but ironically not this one thing. Go figure. I want to have the sounds I am going to be using already picked out.