GONZO-X
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this instrumental is the doppleganger of a song off of my new album "THE WILD ANIMALS",
called "Middle of Nowhere".
just got one of these:
got my new Iridium just end of last week, so just now learning the ropes with it.
so,
using a stock Strymon Iridium, running directly into a RME Babyface Pro interface.
setup is basically as a pedal platform, with rhythms straight into the Iridium, and solos pushed with various pedals.
1st & 2nd rhythm guitars, played on the Williams Special, a custom strat style short scale with bill lawrence front single coil pickup, panned hard left and right, are straight CHIME setting, with gain slightly pulled back, about 4:00.
on cab 1 (2x12 blues)
3rd rhythm guitar panned slightly off center, played on a usacg strat build, bill lawrence bridge humbucker, low in mix, is the PUNCH model, with 4x12 greenback cab. gain is pulled back to about 4:00.
zero EQ or fX added to the rhythms tracks.
Zero eq added to solo tracks, delay added during mixdown.
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First half of song solos, are played on the Carvin, bridge pickup (duncan custom custom) thru the CHIME model dimed, same 2x12 cab, with various pedals.
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the opener first solo 0:04 is pushed with a barber direct drive SS, and a budda wah.
2nd solo 0:21 is the Chime model dimed.
3rd solo 0:39, is the Chime model pushed with the DDSS and wah.
4th solo 1:06 is the Chime model dimed, pushed with a Fulltone Fatboost III.
5th solo 1:19 this solo is straight chime, played lightly with guitar on full volume, front single coil, thru a fulltone mini deja vibe.
at 1:27, with the deja vibe still on, i turn the Fatboost on, thru 2:30.
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from 2:00 on, is the PUNCH model dimed, played on the USACG Strat.
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at 2:00, i'm on the strat, bridge humbucker, straight PUNCH model, strat on full, but playing very lightly.
at 2:17, i'm on straight punch with wah off and on.
at 2: 38, you can hear me turn on the DDSS, and off with the deja vibe, straight guitar.
at 3:14, to end, guitar into ddss into iridium to end.
this was mostly a progressive gainy-rock kinda thing,
i'll do another demo with just the clean tones.
my take-way:
the straight tones are eminently useful in the studio,
and if you have pedals, it takes them incredibly well,
and yet retains the sonic fingerprint of everything in the chain.
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