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Chris Wolstenholme: The Sticky Ver. 1

#381
Finally found one of these beauties...

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(And yes, i know, it's 7200, not 7400).
 
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Now this is going to the level interesting... I found a zvex mastotron for 120€ in a local music shop. I tried it there, of course they had their nice Ampegs and fenders and other fancy stuff that every music shop has. Then when i came home, i placed the mastotron with LS-2 and, obviously, got clean blend. After a while of turning knobs and adding tons of clean blend, i got a tone that reminded me really lot of Hysteria live sound. Not the studio tone, but like the wembley 2007 era sound. Nasty fuzz that's almost a little too dirty, as it goes kind of too much compressed.

But yeah, it's an awesome pedal anyway. Does also killer job on TIRO.
 
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Kombo said:
Can one of y'all explain to me the amazing blazing tone he gets when he's just jamming on those triplets in Knights?

Specifically the G# at 3:20.
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Just from a quick phone listen, I can hear his Animato pretty clearly. From having a clone I can tell you that it is key to a lot of his sounds. This one is straight forward enough, but hard to get an original.
 
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I went to see Muse recently and they had a MUSEum with all Chris's old pedals on display including a couple of muffs and an animato... Best bit though was one of his Status basses just sitting around hooked up to a Kemper amp as an insane headphone practice rig for anyone that wanted to pick up and play - which I did quite a bit as most people were more interested in queuing up for a bash on Matt's guitar!
 
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feliperigby said:
He justs uses Kemper with that mark bass poweramp 1200.. And of course he profiled a lot of his distortion pedals...
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He still has three trays of effects... I'd bet he uses the Kemper for tone shaping more than anything, as his rig has always been pretty unchanging from a clean sound, a muff sound, and the animato all going parallel, and sometimes a muff through all three. (Song dependant of course, that's just traditionally his basic sound) - And some pedals like the Prunes and Custard (Uprising) you just can't profile that sound. Honestly he could just be using the kempers for everything but it seems odd that he would just totally switch over to profiling.
 
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Bassmike62 said:
This is probably the best place to ask the question: is anybody getting lucky in copping off some CW tones by using a Digitech BSW and a Zoom MS60B ? Getting a bigger board and more pedals than my current set-up is not an option at this time.
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Depends on what song you want to emulate. I've seen videos of the BSW used for 'Madness' but they sound absolutely terrible.

After covering and trying to find tones for about 30 songs of theirs, the closest thing is to get an Animato or clone in parallel with a clean blend.
 
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feliperigby said:
Just see the last tour... there's a lot of pictures on google, instagram and others that basicaly shows his rig side of the stage with kemper and a markbass sd1200
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Yes, he might've added the kemper and MB, but that doesn't mean there can't be an off-stage rig, which he, for a fact, has.

Bassmike62 said:
This is probably the best place to ask the question: is anybody getting lucky in copping off some CW tones by using a Digitech BSW and a Zoom MS60B ? Getting a bigger board and more pedals than my current set-up is not an option at this time.
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For the majority of the songs, the budget setup is a black russian muff, Boss OS-2, Boss LS-2 and an octaver. That really gets you many, many of his tones. The amp is an important thing, too. Ampeg and Marshall are your best bets. And one more thing, jazz bass is the best for the 'standard' CW tones. If you happen to have a Pedulla Rapture 4, that's the optimal choice, but you don't need it. Also, one more thing about the fx, if you want a compact setup that costs a bit more, go for a darkglass duality. Hell, you can even pull the tone of Uprising with DG and an octaver.
 
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01FromFinland said:
For the majority of the songs, the budget setup is a black russian muff, Boss OS-2, Boss LS-2 and an octaver. That really gets you many, many of his tones. The amp is an important thing, too. Ampeg and Marshall are your best bets. And one more thing, jazz bass is the best for the 'standard' CW tones. If you happen to have a Pedulla Rapture 4, that's the optimal choice, but you don't need it. Also, one more thing about the fx, if you want a compact setup that costs a bit more, go for a darkglass duality. Hell, you can even pull the tone of Uprising with DG and an octaver.
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Thank you very much for this information ☺
 
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Bassmike62 said:
This is probably the best place to ask the question: is anybody getting lucky in copping off some CW tones by using a Digitech BSW and a Zoom MS60B ? Getting a bigger board and more pedals than my current set-up is not an option at this time.
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I mentioned some of this to you in another thread, and I no longer own my BSW. But the two songs I tried to emulate the tone for were "Plug In Baby" and "Time Is Running Out". I forget the exact settings, but "Plug In Baby" can be done in Mode 2, the Sub Envelope mode. "Time Is Running Out" used one of the synth modes, I think Mode 4. You crank the dials in such a way so as to turn off the filter entirely.

Neither is a perfect match, but are instantly recognizable as being in the proper ballpark, and I think would be more than adequate for a lot of live work.
 
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Adamixoye said:
I mentioned some of this to you in another thread, and I no longer own my BSW. But the two songs I tried to emulate the tone for were "Plug In Baby" and "Time Is Running Out". I forget the exact settings, but "Plug In Baby" can be done in Mode 2, the Sub Envelope mode. "Time Is Running Out" used one of the synth modes, I think Mode 4. You crank the dials in such a way so as to turn off the filter entirely.

Neither is a perfect match, but are instantly recognizable as being in the proper ballpark, and I think would be more than adequate for a lot of live work.
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Those are good budget choices, but the bit expensive and 'identical to majority of the audience'-tones can be done with a Mastotron for TIRO and an octaver along the BSW and a muff on Plug in Baby. Like I said, excellent budget choices, but the CW-fanboy in me made me say those few things :D

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Thank you very much for this information ☺
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If you want, I can make a longer list of pedals, basses and settings I use for some CW tones. Just name the songs you want to know and I'll get my version of 'em for you ;)
 
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