Really digging all the wild effects on this thing. To me it's more a desktop workstation that can work on the ground if needed
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Zoom B1Xon Settings Thread...... OMG
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I made an interesting patch last night. A phaser into a reverse echo into another reverse echo. Probably not usable but fun to mess with.
Dude if you add an early reflection at the end will the sound disappear?
I'm kind of disappointing reading 16 pages of a topic titled 'Zoom B1Xon Settings Thread' with only like 5 settings shared on it. 
So I'll share one that I have been messed been around with most often: a Les Claypool style setting.
I based it on another thread on this site were one was showing some live pictures showcasing his settings on an API 7600 preamp. They were to blurry to set the eq just like him, but the compression part is what I've got about right. There is however no compressor on the pedal that has all of the expected settings, so I'm using the dbx 160 followed by a limiter.
1st: D.I+
Settings:
Bass, mid treble: to taste depending on the bass you want to use. You essentially want a clear sound. On my active fretted I need to lower the bass, on my fretless I boost the treble etc...
Gain, blend, level: 100
Color switch: ON (most crucial imo)
CHAN: CLN
2nd: 160 comp
Settings:
THRSH: 0
Ratio: 6.0
Gain: 6
KNEE: Hard
Level: 100
3th: Limiter
Settings:
THRSH: 10
Ratio: 6
Level: whatever you want
REL: 1
And optionally a 4th: ZNR (that noise removal thing set to its standard settings)
So I'll share one that I have been messed been around with most often: a Les Claypool style setting.
I based it on another thread on this site were one was showing some live pictures showcasing his settings on an API 7600 preamp. They were to blurry to set the eq just like him, but the compression part is what I've got about right. There is however no compressor on the pedal that has all of the expected settings, so I'm using the dbx 160 followed by a limiter.
1st: D.I+
Settings:
Bass, mid treble: to taste depending on the bass you want to use. You essentially want a clear sound. On my active fretted I need to lower the bass, on my fretless I boost the treble etc...
Gain, blend, level: 100
Color switch: ON (most crucial imo)
CHAN: CLN
2nd: 160 comp
Settings:
THRSH: 0
Ratio: 6.0
Gain: 6
KNEE: Hard
Level: 100
3th: Limiter
Settings:
THRSH: 10
Ratio: 6
Level: whatever you want
REL: 1
And optionally a 4th: ZNR (that noise removal thing set to its standard settings)
Hi. Can I see your setup? Along with the splitter cables? I'm having a hard time looking for them. And also what headphones do you use.
Edit: I saw the pedalboard at the previous page.
Will try to take a pic for you. I use either Sony extended bass closed phones, or Grado 80's, which are for monitoring my DAW..really great set of cans. the Sony's MBR XD 500 were recommended by a DJ. They aren't really accurate, but as i do a fair bit of dub, both using a bass/harmonizer and a synth..were the only things that could actually..sorta..reproduce sub low end. Cheap too (noticing a theme here?)
All the cables are those cheap (see?) Hosa things. To do the do..get the one with a mono female to 2 mono males. Your bass/etc goes to the female and the other 2 ends go to the inputs of the 2 pedals. The outputs of the 2 pedals go to another Hosa splitter..this time the one with 2 male STEREO plugs (one from each of the pedals' outputs), to one stereo FEMALE jack, that's where you plug your headphones, or send it to a daw, or, by splitting that stereo signal to l/r, 2 amps or or or. Plus the stereo image is there from both..I have hours of fun setting pingpongy effects with different times etc..This is really Ghetto 101 routing..but going with the flow of the cheap and cheerful, it works great and costs about as much as a gram in Colorado. Not that I would know how much that is.
Ohh, and BTW, that pic you saw is Rip's board. Putting these pedals on a pedalboard makes them too swished up for my impecunious taste. NBo sir, smack right down on the floorboards
Think I'm going to mostly use this for modulation and delay/reverb effects (as well as tuner.) I run a compressor and OD. Between the three pedals I think I'm pretty set.
I've been playing with this more lately too. I've been adding the Tile Room Reverb and Air to my patches and that really opens it up.
Any advice on a good envelope filter to try?
I've been playing with this more lately too. I've been adding the Tile Room Reverb and Air to my patches and that really opens it up.
Any advice on a good envelope filter to try?
Will try to take a pic for you. I use either Sony extended bass closed phones, or Grado 80's, which are for monitoring my DAW..really great set of cans. the Sony's MBR XD 500 were recommended by a DJ. They aren't really accurate, but as i do a fair bit of dub, both using a bass/harmonizer and a synth..were the only things that could actually..sorta..reproduce sub low end. Cheap too (noticing a theme here?)
All the cables are those cheap (see?) Hosa things. To do the do..get the one with a mono female to 2 mono males. Your bass/etc goes to the female and the other 2 ends go to the inputs of the 2 pedals. The outputs of the 2 pedals go to another Hosa splitter..this time the one with 2 male STEREO plugs (one from each of the pedals' outputs), to one stereo FEMALE jack, that's where you plug your headphones, or send it to a daw, or, by splitting that stereo signal to l/r, 2 amps or or or. Plus the stereo image is there from both..I have hours of fun setting pingpongy effects with different times etc..This is really Ghetto 101 routing..but going with the flow of the cheap and cheerful, it works great and costs about as much as a gram in Colorado. Not that I would know how much that is.
Ohh, and BTW, that pic you saw is Rip's board. Putting these pedals on a pedalboard makes them too swished up for my impecunious taste. NBo sir, smack right down on the floorboards
Oh, sorry. I was confused there. I'll be waiting for your pics, this sounds interesting!
Hey John, whatcha use for a DAW? I've been piddeling with my old desktop and Linux. Seem to have some hardware issues with my sound card (cheap USB thingy).Will try to take a pic for you. I use either Sony extended bass closed phones, or Grado 80's, which are for monitoring my DAW..really great set of cans. the Sony's MBR XD 500 were recommended by a DJ. They aren't really accurate, but as i do a fair bit of dub, both using a bass/harmonizer and a synth..were the only things that could actually..sorta..reproduce sub low end. Cheap too (noticing a theme here?)
All the cables are those cheap (see?) Hosa things. To do the do..get the one with a mono female to 2 mono males. Your bass/etc goes to the female and the other 2 ends go to the inputs of the 2 pedals. The outputs of the 2 pedals go to another Hosa splitter..this time the one with 2 male STEREO plugs (one from each of the pedals' outputs), to one stereo FEMALE jack, that's where you plug your headphones, or send it to a daw, or, by splitting that stereo signal to l/r, 2 amps or or or. Plus the stereo image is there from both..I have hours of fun setting pingpongy effects with different times etc..This is really Ghetto 101 routing..but going with the flow of the cheap and cheerful, it works great and costs about as much as a gram in Colorado. Not that I would know how much that is.
Ohh, and BTW, that pic you saw is Rip's board. Putting these pedals on a pedalboard makes them too swished up for my impecunious taste. NBo sir, smack right down on the floorboards
I was an early adapter to DAWS, starting in 85 with Doctor T's Midi program on a mighty Commodore 64. Wouldn't it be cool if computers still had names like that? It worked well too. I have used Acid (liked that one) Reason, Logic (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) Cubase, various flavors of Pro Tools, but always at studios outside of my home base, but for the last 10 years or so, I have used Ableton Live, the Suite version with Max 4 Live. I am on a PC, and found it works the best. Linux is a hard one to use with DAWS, if you can swing it, maybe get an inexpensive PC just to use your DAW, and run Windows..keep it off the internet.
ha, if you ever saw the pics I take, you'd probably not be waiting, but I will try today.Oh, sorry. I was confused there. I'll be waiting for your pics, this sounds interesting!
Thanks for the tips, John! I'm kind of undecided so far. I took this desktop out because we weren't really using it. It seems we constantly have 3 or 4 computers running in our house unused. If I get motivated at the right time, I might give it a go. I always have a Win PC around for work use, so I might just go that direction if I do more.
It would be good to get the Live Lite version..8 tracks, limited plugs, but it will give you an idea. It's usually bundled with a piece of hardware, so if you are going to get a new i/o, you won't have to look to hard to find a 2/2 interface that comes with it for my favorite price, free. you might even find that it meets your needs as is. sometimes I limit myself to "just" 8 tracks as an exercise, works for me.
Whenever I tried to run Linux/Wine, I always felt I was "missing" something..probably from being in Microsoftlandia for too long. I tried Reaper too, but never could hang.
I've been using Reaper for about 8 or 9 years, and I prefer it to Cubase, etc. Once you've installed it with Wine on Linux there's an icon on the desktop, ditto Native Instruments stuff, and it's been solid for me. In fact reinstalling Battery on Wine was easier than on Windows 10. Prior to the 4.x series of kernels, though, the Zoom R16 was not an option, so it's only been totally workable since then. One caveat would be that Windows does seem to do a bit better if you use a lot of plugins.
The thing is I am heavily invested in Ableton..and I like it a lot, especially with the Max 4 Live option. I have the feeling though (and always have) that Linux is where I should be for everything non musical. Thanks for the clarification on Linux.
I can't really comment on Ableton as I've never used it, and certainly Wine offers variable results. I've been lucky with Reaper and Native Instruments, so haven't really strayed much from that as it gives me more target OS options.
The caveat on lots of plugins is that audio glitches appear with a smaller number on Linux than Windows, but you should still be ok with around a dozen tracks with compression, EQ, reverb send on each, a few tracks with special effects such as octave, chorus, four or five reasonable soft synths and some MIDI automation. Five years ago glitching seemed to be more of an issue, so the keyboard player of Marillion who was using Linux and soft synths back then live was a brave soul!
Interesting stuff fellas. Maybe we should start a DAW mega thread, not specific to OS so much. I have my hands on a computer seemingly every waking hour, due to the nature of my day job, and I find inexpensive computer based effects very compelling. I do more network, storage and virtual environment stuff than OS specific work, so I consider myself pretty OS neutral. I see strengths and weaknesses in both Win and Lin and pretty much avoid the arguments that often accompany discussions. Never tried Mac to speak of, but I've always been interested. Is there interest in a DAW thread? Like a place to share things (what works/sucks/is just too fiddly) and maybe share solutions to problem, help each other out, that type of thing? I've wondered why there isn't more posting on DAWs. I am very interested in DAWs, mostly as a very configurable (and cheap!) and pretty large "pedal." 
Interesting stuff fellas. Maybe we should start a DAW mega thread, not specific to OS so much. I have my hands on a computer seemingly every waking hour, due to the nature of my day job, and I find inexpensive computer based effects very compelling. I do more network, storage and virtual environment stuff than OS specific work, so I consider myself pretty OS neutral. I see strengths and weaknesses in both Win and Lin and pretty much avoid the arguments that often accompany discussions. Never tried Mac to speak of, but I've always been interested. Is there interest in a DAW thread? Like a place to share things (what works/sucks/is just too fiddly) and maybe share solutions to problem, help each other out, that type of thing? I've wondered why there isn't more posting on DAWs. I am very interested in DAWs, mostly as a very configurable (and cheap!) and pretty large "pedal."
There have been a few DAW threads on the recording subforum, and some Linux ones. But yes, we're going off topic.
