Swishy - James what are you using to get that tone?

[holio cornolio]

I'd like to kiss your ass James Hart. Tooling around on here during my lunch i linked through to your myspace page. Anyway i'm loving your tone in your track 'Swishy'. That is pretty much exactly the sound I'm desperately trying to get. I really warm, slightly crunchy sound that is really naturally and tubey. I can imagine that if you turn up the wick on your tone control, you have some nice rocky crunch there too? So what is it? Please don't say it's straight into your amp, you gotta have some cool magic box to give you that crunch pleeeeese!! Share your secret!

 

[James Hart]

Thanks for the butt kissing... you made my morning


That is.....

Bee -> Analog.man CompROSSer -> Analog.man King Of Tone -> nano small stone -> Ibanez AD-9

The compressor is a Ross clone that has since been replaced by an 'Orange Squeezer' clone. The KoT is the secret tone box for me... that thing is ALWAYS on. The nano SS is obviously the 'swish' of the tone... recently replaced with a Maxon PT-9 pro+ (and soon a Phase 45 clone as well, I was looking for a little more and a little less intense... so I got 2 phasers). The AD-9 is another always on... very very short delay with minimum regen and volume.

Here is the MP3 without the Myspace compression
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[holio cornolio]

Oh Man!! KOT?? There's a year long waiting list for that thing!!!!!!
Still, awesome sound fella. how do you find the squeezer? I was thinking of making one up myself since i sold my (cough) CS-3

 

[James Hart]

I love it! it's the exact compressor tone I was looking for. I had it built with the 'bass mod' mentioned here on TB.

You can buy KoT pedals any day of the week for between $350 and $500 USD if you don't want to wait. I had sold the one in that recording because of a money bind I got into around xmas... but it got lost in transit I ended up having to pay the dude back and caught one off eBay at the lower end of what they go for. When my name hits the top of the list, I'll buy it and flip it on eBay to recoup a little of my loss.

Both Swishy and Convoluted (my youtube vid) are using the one side for crunch/growl and the other side for lead tone (both tracks are multi tracks of my 7 string).

less driven tone in this track is the KoT in a band setting
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the heavier tone is my OLC Thor stacked on top of the KoT.
(with the OS clone in front of it)

 

[holio cornolio]

$500!!! maybe if I get the wife and kids to go without food for a month I could scrape that together!! Back to the drawing board for me!! Hows the Llama going?