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Suggestions for adding dual tones to live shows

Mike151

Mike151

Dec 22, 2008
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Sherman Texas
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#1
I'm in a band with 1 guitar player, drummer, lead singer, and bass.
This past practice I tried something that I've been dying to try for a year now.
I have a Line 6 POD X3 Live pedalboard.
I set up a dual tone.
Tone 1: My typical Ampeg Bass tone
Tone 2: UP Octave with a guitar amp and cab simulator w/ distortion. I EQ'd the second tone to be where a rhythm guitar would typically be.
Sounded pretty kick a$$. Especially when the guitar player went into his leads, the two tones that I set up filled the room rather nice IMO. Sounded a bit fakeish to me because it was like a rhythm guitar player playing one note instead of power chords but did add something where there used to be nothing.
Anyone else out there running a setup like this for live shows? If so, what's your method and how do you achieve it?
I was thinking about trying a keyboard synth on some songs along with my bass but haven't had the time to play with that yet.
Lets hear some comments, suggestions, flame me... whatever. haha..

thanks!
Mike
 
#2
Mike151 said:
... Sounded a bit fakeish to me because it was like a rhythm guitar player playing one note instead of power chords ...
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So play some power chords! Or Double Stops, or unison octaves (probably have to turn of the Octaver effect in your patch though — I don't know if the Pod can track more than one note).

I was messing around with unison octaves on my DB at last night's blues jam. Used it in moderation, picking select moments to sneak it in and it really added to the ambience.

Anyway, sounds like fun. I need more pedals, or a pod, not that I'd get to use them at the jams (acoustic only).
 
#4
Power Chords: Great suggestion!
It won't work with this particular effect as there is already a bit of an octave tracking issue with the Pod's "bender" effect. If I hit more than one note at a time, it goes haywire.
What I can do is set up another dual tone that doesn't use octave and just EQ the lows out for the guitar mimic and use power chords. Definately will try this right now.
 
#5
Mike151 said:
Power Chords: Great suggestion!
It won't work with this particular effect as there is already a bit of an octave tracking issue with the Pod's "bender" effect. If I hit more than one note at a time, it goes haywire.
What I can do is set up another dual tone that doesn't use octave and just EQ the lows out for the guitar mimic and use power chords. Definately will try this right now.
Click to expand...

I used to do this with a HOG, a dual parallel looper, and distortion and it worked really well. The HOG does 5ths in two places and a 2oct+3rd up as well as the octaves up. Sounds fake without the dirt, but it sounds passable with dirt and really fills out a part that demands rhythm under lead.
 

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