worshiprocker
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- Aug 12, 2011
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I have a macbook air with no CD drive
. I can't seem to get the software installed
. anybody have any ideas?
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Zoom b3 patch Ideas
- Thread starter Crystalman85
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worshiprocker
Tonepump Junkie
- Aug 12, 2011
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thanks, for some reason I could only ever find the upgrade link . I'm excited to play with this
Can anyone help me cop the tone from Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin? I'm already using a pick on my Jazz with the neck pup soloed, but I can't quite get that tone from my B3. I have a patch laid out with the T-scream set really low into the Acoustic sim into the tremolo effect to simulate his leslie speaker, but I still can't get it completely down.
And you can anytime go back to factory settings by accessing in Edit&Share the Zoom web site: ZOOM Online (lower left bottom). You can also restore only an individual patch by drag dropping a particular patch from any set to another one.
BTW, I also keep many sets of my patches. I create a new set almost each time I reconnect my B3 to the Mac. I then rename that new set by adding the date (in big endian format, e.g. -2013.11.30) for easy chronological sorting. Thus I can go back to any previous version of my patches. That's easy and no big deal, since these settings files are small and take almost no disk space.
I use several Macs (one in my music studio, one for regular work) and keep a copy of those patch sets only on the music studio Mac. A symbolic link in the Dropbox does the trick to make the folder containing the patches available to any other Mac (Dropbox sharing). This way my settings are always also on the cloud. I was already once very glad for this. Before going on stage I needed to reload my settings, having changed them during sound-check to something I didn't like anymore. I had fortunately also my laptop (MacBook Air, fits easily into the gig bag) with me and thanks to this I could conveniently restore my patches fully. Before a gig I prefer to focus on music instead of fiddling with parameters of complex devices such as a B3 where it is so easy to go amiss. ;-)
Here's link to my shared patches. I posted it before but I just thought it might be easier to repost it for the sake of saving someone a search through this huge thread. The muse patch was not created by me but some folks couldn't find it and I could so I shared it through my share. The rest of the patches on there are synthy and or weird. I'll be adding more soon.
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B-sJ2f_aVog4NVZtUTZEb080aDQ
https://drive.google.com/#folders/0B-sJ2f_aVog4NVZtUTZEb080aDQ
Which are yours? There are 242 files from several contributors (including myself) and I can't match your Talkbass ID with the file name(s)
The link is to my google drive not the big share. So all of them in that folder are mine(except the muse one). There's only five there right now. I decided to share my patches on my drive because someone erased a bunch of stuff of the big share once so I thought rather than trying to wade through all those patches and see which ones are still there I'd upload them all again to my drive and if it gets erased I have them all close at hand to re-upload.
^ I don't know about which patches to use but you could start by rolling off your tone knob, putting some flatwound strings on your bass, play with your fingers and close to the neck.
Hey, any of you guys try a Rush Moving Pictures tone? I have a decent patch set up, consisting of a compressor to, you know, compress the crap out of it, a chorus (for songs like Vital Signs and YYZ) into a kinda cranked SVT with a 115 cab (I looked up gear he used, closest I can get to his Ashly preamp tone. Maybe a Bass BB though? Experimentation is fun.) Anyways here it is.
160 comp: THRSH -22, Ratio 4.0, Gain 7, Hard knee, Level 100.
Chorus: Depth 33, Rate 20, Mix 53, Locut off, Level 100, PreD off.
SVT: Bass 4, Mid 7, Treble 4, Mid Frequency 630Hz, Gain 71, Level 8/whatever you want, Ultra cut, Cab 115 AG, Mix 100.
I find that it makes my jazz sound kind of like a rick if you favor the neck pickup.
Yup. I also have a Tom Sawyer growl for those interested.
160 comp: THRSH -22, Ratio 4.0, Gain 7, Hard knee, Level 100.
Chorus: Depth 33, Rate 20, Mix 53, Locut off, Level 100, PreD off.
SVT: Bass 4, Mid 7, Treble 4, Mid Frequency 630Hz, Gain 71, Level 8/whatever you want, Ultra cut, Cab 115 AG, Mix 100.
I find that it makes my jazz sound kind of like a rick if you favor the neck pickup.
Yup. I also have a Tom Sawyer growl for those interested.
The bass big muff model and the ODB3 model have the same parameter controls as the pedals... The B3 emulates pedals, vs the B2 which is more or less a good-sounding multi-effect with a limit of 3 parameters per section.
G-K head, max the trebble and bass, shift the mids to about 100hz and compressor, the 160 probably, with hard knee with threshold and ratio set to taste. You could also add a tube screamer for a touch of dirt and to drive the sound a little to make it sound even more aggressive.
I think his tone is pretty non-descript in that its clank and low end with a really scooped mid sound, so fairly easy to emulate with most amps. The hard part is going to be emulating his playing to get the right feel.
I think his tone is pretty non-descript in that its clank and low end with a really scooped mid sound, so fairly easy to emulate with most amps. The hard part is going to be emulating his playing to get the right feel.
I can't speak for the Bass Muff but I know the ODB-3 has both bass and treble controls but the B3 version only has 1 tone knob.
