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Zoom b3 patch Ideas
- Thread starter Crystalman85
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Here's a new patch idea I came up with. this patch closely duplicates the fuzz-like distortion sounds of a dr. j soloman bass overdrive pedal.
Doctor jay
Section 1: znr: thresh: 10, detect: efxln, level: 100
Section 2: fuzzsmile: gain: 50, tone: 45, level: 100, balance: 50
Section 3: super b: bass: 4, mid: 4, treble: 5, midfq: 250hz, gain: 20, level: 100, presence: 7, cab: ag1x15, mix: 50
Doctor jay
Section 1: znr: thresh: 10, detect: efxln, level: 100
Section 2: fuzzsmile: gain: 50, tone: 45, level: 100, balance: 50
Section 3: super b: bass: 4, mid: 4, treble: 5, midfq: 250hz, gain: 20, level: 100, presence: 7, cab: ag1x15, mix: 50
Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch has a light overdrive sound with a tube-like punch.
Punch drive
Section 1: exciter: bass: 2, treble: 5, level: 90
Section 2: t-scream: gain: 30, tone: 70, level: 100, balance: 50
Section 3: super b: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: 5, midfq: 300hz, gain: 15, level: 100, presence: 7, cab: e4x10, mix: 50
Punch drive
Section 1: exciter: bass: 2, treble: 5, level: 90
Section 2: t-scream: gain: 30, tone: 70, level: 100, balance: 50
Section 3: super b: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: 5, midfq: 300hz, gain: 15, level: 100, presence: 7, cab: e4x10, mix: 50
Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch is another vintage grind patch with a fender bassman model. a great patch for those who like the darkglass vintage microtubes.
Vintage grind 3
Section 1: m comp: thresh: 20, ratio: 4, level: 90, attack: 7
Section 2: squeak: gain: 25, tone: 40, level: 100, balance: 25
Section 3: b-man: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 45, level: 80, deep: off, cab: ag1x15, mix: 50
Vintage grind 3
Section 1: m comp: thresh: 20, ratio: 4, level: 90, attack: 7
Section 2: squeak: gain: 25, tone: 40, level: 100, balance: 25
Section 3: b-man: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 45, level: 80, deep: off, cab: ag1x15, mix: 50
i love your work on replicating darkglass pedal, sounds awesome for me
not too distorted but it's heavy as a rock
nice!!
my favorite dirt sim is metalWRLD, it has clanky-ish (or maybe i'm wrong) type of overdrive
squeak is more of a mid boost but still overdrive
only one man opinion
Hello all, I'm finding that a lot of the settings react differently with my bass. I play an ESP vintage fretless with flatwound strings. It is passive. I've got the jazz smooth butter sound down, which I use a lot, but I was hoping for a snappier almost funk type patch that would work with my bass. Not into distortion, so just wondering if there were any fretless passive players who have found something that works. I have gotten close with the Hartke and the exciter, but still not quite snappy enough. ....Thanks!
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I'm new to the Zoom B3 and am trying to come up with a patch that resembles the tone of the bass that opens Donovan's "Sunshine Superman." Based on what I've read online, it's a mix of picked flatwounds on a Fender (played by John Paul Jones) with an upright bass. But I think there's more going on in the sound processing. Anyone have thoughts, suggestions, or recipes to crack this? Thanks.
big clean lows patch
Prereq: I play a passive fretless, with flatwounds.
this patch is very responsive to hand techniques and positions.
bay 1: G-Krueger
bass 6; mid 4; treb 2; mid f 200hz; gain 40; level 80; color mid; cab 4x10 HA; mix 70
Bay 2: SVT
bass 3; mid 4; trebl 6; mid F 350 hz; gain 40; level 40; ultra off; cab 4x12 SB; mix 50
Bay 3:
This is the option I'll leave open. I currently have the auto wah here, but I often sub it with a compressor.
I like this a lot, as it helps my passive bass more punchy, and helps it cut through the mix.
Prereq: I play a passive fretless, with flatwounds.
this patch is very responsive to hand techniques and positions.
bay 1: G-Krueger
bass 6; mid 4; treb 2; mid f 200hz; gain 40; level 80; color mid; cab 4x10 HA; mix 70
Bay 2: SVT
bass 3; mid 4; trebl 6; mid F 350 hz; gain 40; level 40; ultra off; cab 4x12 SB; mix 50
Bay 3:
This is the option I'll leave open. I currently have the auto wah here, but I often sub it with a compressor.
I like this a lot, as it helps my passive bass more punchy, and helps it cut through the mix.
SMR patch with Mike League like octave option
Bay 1: Octave
oct 41; dry 79; tone 8; low 4; mid 7; level 95
Bay 2: SMR
bass 4; mid -6; treb -1; mid f 630 hz; gain 47; level 70; enhc 9; cab orgn; mix 71
bay 3: D comp
sense 6; tone 3; level 110; attack slow
I like the tone without the octave, and I like to punch it in for certain parts of songs...
enjoy!
Bay 1: Octave
oct 41; dry 79; tone 8; low 4; mid 7; level 95
Bay 2: SMR
bass 4; mid -6; treb -1; mid f 630 hz; gain 47; level 70; enhc 9; cab orgn; mix 71
bay 3: D comp
sense 6; tone 3; level 110; attack slow
I like the tone without the octave, and I like to punch it in for certain parts of songs...
enjoy!
Glad you like the darkglass patches I created. I did manage to closely duplicate those sounds using the squeak distortion model and certain amp and preamp models. I like the metalwrld distortion model too. I like that distortion model for it's heavy sounds. I've been using that distortion model for my main distortion patch. I also dig the squeak, overdrive, t-scream, and bass bb models. I also kept one of the vintage grind patches on my zoom b3 as one my patches. definitely one my best patch ideas.
Hello guys,
So I've been messing around with the B3 today and I came up with a patch tailored for the song "R U Mine?" by Arctic Monkeys. It sounds great through my headphones, which I made it for, so it may take some tweaking (with particular attention to the Mix Value on the Bassman model and ZNR level*) for live use through a PA set or speakers and power amp, or for recording.
1) ZNR:
THRSH: 15
DETCT: GtrIn
Level:100
As you can tell, I took Charlie C's settings and used it to quiet down my bass signal. Check out his thread "Zoom B3 As Preamp Part 2" for juicy knowledge on the effect plus more!
*You may want to back down the Level Parameter if you have a high output bass, so that your signal doesn't sound like a beehive.
2) OverDrive:
Gain: 10
Tone: 40
Level: 25
Balance: 50
I have chosen this effect based off of his SkyChord Truck Loud Overdrive, which I believe is used on this song. I tried to get the drive to sound like it does in the isolated bass track of the song, which is on YouTube somewhere...do a simple search for "R U Mine? isolated bass" and it should come up in the results.
3) B-Man (Bassman Amp Sim)
Bass: -1
Mid: -1
Treble: 0
Mid Frequency: 800Hz
Gain: 15
Level: 75
Deep: Off
Cab: 8x10 AG (Ampeg)
Mix: 50
Total:
Level: 100
Balance:100
Global:
Level: 100
I used the Bassman sim as I remember hearing on the Internet that Nick O' Malley uses a Bassman amp head in the studio. He uses a full Ampeg rig live, so in order to get close to to the studio tone, I used the Bassman head with an Ampeg cab, as I presume he uses the same cab live as he does in the studio, seeing as he never mentioned he had a Bassman cabinet. The Mix value may need adjusting because of what I mentioned above, but this should be fairly decent at mimicking the bass tone through some good headphones.
Hope you enjoy and I don't mean to derail the thread, but if you wish the learn the song accurately, Songsterr has, what I believe to be a spot on transcription, in line with the isolated bass track.
Enjoy! I shall post my "Do I Wanna Know?" patch soon.
So I've been messing around with the B3 today and I came up with a patch tailored for the song "R U Mine?" by Arctic Monkeys. It sounds great through my headphones, which I made it for, so it may take some tweaking (with particular attention to the Mix Value on the Bassman model and ZNR level*) for live use through a PA set or speakers and power amp, or for recording.
1) ZNR:
THRSH: 15
DETCT: GtrIn
Level:100
As you can tell, I took Charlie C's settings and used it to quiet down my bass signal. Check out his thread "Zoom B3 As Preamp Part 2" for juicy knowledge on the effect plus more!
*You may want to back down the Level Parameter if you have a high output bass, so that your signal doesn't sound like a beehive.
2) OverDrive:
Gain: 10
Tone: 40
Level: 25
Balance: 50
I have chosen this effect based off of his SkyChord Truck Loud Overdrive, which I believe is used on this song. I tried to get the drive to sound like it does in the isolated bass track of the song, which is on YouTube somewhere...do a simple search for "R U Mine? isolated bass" and it should come up in the results.
3) B-Man (Bassman Amp Sim)
Bass: -1
Mid: -1
Treble: 0
Mid Frequency: 800Hz
Gain: 15
Level: 75
Deep: Off
Cab: 8x10 AG (Ampeg)
Mix: 50
Total:
Level: 100
Balance:100
Global:
Level: 100
I used the Bassman sim as I remember hearing on the Internet that Nick O' Malley uses a Bassman amp head in the studio. He uses a full Ampeg rig live, so in order to get close to to the studio tone, I used the Bassman head with an Ampeg cab, as I presume he uses the same cab live as he does in the studio, seeing as he never mentioned he had a Bassman cabinet. The Mix value may need adjusting because of what I mentioned above, but this should be fairly decent at mimicking the bass tone through some good headphones.
Hope you enjoy and I don't mean to derail the thread, but if you wish the learn the song accurately, Songsterr has, what I believe to be a spot on transcription, in line with the isolated bass track.
Enjoy! I shall post my "Do I Wanna Know?" patch soon.
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Any idea what Sam is using to get the crunchy sound on this song?
I will play about with it later and try to match it but if anyone else comes up with something that would be great
I will play about with it later and try to match it but if anyone else comes up with something that would be great
Here's a new patch idea I came up with. this patch has a compressed but heavy sound with a chorus closely resembling one of the distortion channels from a rocktron utopia b100.
Metaltron
Section 1: comp+dist: thresh: 20, gain: 75, level: 90, dry: 70, tone: 80, ratio: 4, attack: 7
Section 2: chorus: depth: 50, rate: 25, mix: 50, locut: 200hz, level: 100, pred: on
Section 3: fliptop: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 45, level: 90, char: low, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Metaltron
Section 1: comp+dist: thresh: 20, gain: 75, level: 90, dry: 70, tone: 80, ratio: 4, attack: 7
Section 2: chorus: depth: 50, rate: 25, mix: 50, locut: 200hz, level: 100, pred: on
Section 3: fliptop: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 45, level: 90, char: low, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch is another vintage grind patch with an ampeg svt amp model for a 90s metal vibe.
Vintage grind 4
Section 1: m comp: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 90, attack: 7
Section 2: squeak: gain: 25, tone: 45, level: 100, balance: 25
Section: svt: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 40, ultra: low, cab: pt1x15, mix: 50
Vintage grind 4
Section 1: m comp: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 90, attack: 7
Section 2: squeak: gain: 25, tone: 45, level: 100, balance: 25
Section: svt: bass: 4, mid: 3, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 40, ultra: low, cab: pt1x15, mix: 50
Here's a new patch idea I came up with. this patch closely duplicates the clean punchy sounds of a darkglass b7k ultra.
Metallic clean
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: graphic eq: 50hz: 2, 120hz: 1, 400hz: -1, 500hz: -2, 800hz: 0, 4.5hz: 3. 10khz: 4, level: 100
Section 3: svt: bass: 3, mid: 0, treble: 2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 40, level: 40, ultra: both, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Metallic clean
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: graphic eq: 50hz: 2, 120hz: 1, 400hz: -1, 500hz: -2, 800hz: 0, 4.5hz: 3. 10khz: 4, level: 100
Section 3: svt: bass: 3, mid: 0, treble: 2, midfq: 300hz, gain: 40, level: 40, ultra: both, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
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Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch closely duplicates the warm and clean punchy sounds of a darkglass vintage ultra.
Vintage clean
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: graphic eq: 50hz: 2, 120hz: 1, 400hz: -1, 500hz: -2, 800hz: 0, 4.5hz: 3. 10khz: 4, level: 100
Section 3: b-man: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 57, deep: on, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Vintage clean
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: graphic eq: 50hz: 2, 120hz: 1, 400hz: -1, 500hz: -2, 800hz: 0, 4.5hz: 3. 10khz: 4, level: 100
Section 3: b-man: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 57, deep: on, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch has a warm but heavy sound that sounds like a high-gained darklgass vintage deluxe.
Vintage heavy
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: metalwrld: gain: 40, tone: 50, level: 100, balance: 25
Section 3: b-man: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 57, deep: on, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Vintage heavy
Section 1: limiter: thresh: 20, ratio: 5, level: 100, release: 4
Section 2: metalwrld: gain: 40, tone: 50, level: 100, balance: 25
Section 3: b-man: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: -2, midfq: 250hz, gain: 40, level: 57, deep: on, cab: ag8x10, mix: 50
Here's another patch idea I came up with. this patch has a crunchy bass sound with a killer clean punch. this patch is another edition of a patch idea inspired by a friend's rig such as the crunch metal bass and the mega bass driver.
Killer bass crunch
Section 1: dualcomp: hi: 20, lo: 18, freq: 1.0khz, level: 100, tone: 4
Section 2: d.i plus: bass: 3, mid: 0, treble: 2, gain: 10, blend: 25, level: 100, color: on, chan: dist
Section 3: ag amp: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: 2. midfq: 300hz, gain: 40, level: 50, char: both, cab: e4x10, mix: 50
Killer bass crunch
Section 1: dualcomp: hi: 20, lo: 18, freq: 1.0khz, level: 100, tone: 4
Section 2: d.i plus: bass: 3, mid: 0, treble: 2, gain: 10, blend: 25, level: 100, color: on, chan: dist
Section 3: ag amp: bass: 3, mid: 4, treble: 2. midfq: 300hz, gain: 40, level: 50, char: both, cab: e4x10, mix: 50
Thanks for all the sweet ideas
