Tubby Texas tone for J-Station users.

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I was inspired by the thread about Billy Gibbons and it was a slow work day so... I think I'm pretty close to the later ZZ Top sound, after Eliminator. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Amp Model: Rectified, Gain: 2.5, Treble: 8.5, Mid: 7.1, Bass: 6.0 Level: 7.2

Chorus on, post, Speed: 0, Depth: 99, Predelay: 20ms, Mix 75

Delay on, Analog pong, Time: 90ms, Feedback: 0% Level: 33

Reverb on, Studio, Diffusion: 70, Density: 10 Decay:4, Level 49

Noise gate on Attack: 0, Threshold: 32 (I just set it so there isn't any sound when I'm not playing)

Cabinet: Johnson 4X12

Stereo is on

Compressor is on, Ratio: 4:1, Threshold: -30dB, Frequency: full, Gain: 9dB

I'm using an Epiphone Les Paul here, so if you have another guitar I'm sure it will sound differant. Also, my speakers at work are crap.
 
Cool. Next time how about an earlier Rev. Gibbons tone, like from Tres Hombres....or Tejas, Rio Grande....
 
You ungrateful bastich! I worked all day on this, but is it good enough for you? Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo.


Just kidding.
 
I still love his early stuff; rude, raw, in-your-face tones, huge sound without using 18 layers and gobs of effects. Tasty, funky licks from the less-is-more school. He was a big influence and inspiration, and still is one of my all time favorites but I kinda lost interest in ZZ when they started using sequencers and a more processed sound, I guess it was around the Eliminator album.
 
I really like both, but I didn't at first. It sort of had to grow on me. I really don't think his basic sound has changed that much over the years. Although their newest stuff with the really low tunings (sometimes a whole 5th lower) just sounds so nasty. I'm thinking about CDs like XXX and Rythmeen here. I also really like the sort of techno stuff they've done (Dreadmonboogaloo).

BTW I don't buy it that he's using 8s to play that stuff. I tried tuning my 11s down that low and couldn't get any kind of decent sounds.
 
As I understand, he's notorious for giving erroneous info about his gear, yeah I find it hard to believe that any pro player uses 008's even for standard tuning. I'm sure you're rght about his tone not changing much, but I think it had a glossier, more reverbed studio sound/texture, and was in a way different musical context.
BTW, I agree with the Clapton woman tone thing in the other post - way too muddy for me with the rythym stuff, but some of the solo tones were cool, like in the live Crossroads. His early strat tones were ok, but later on - wimpy as hell.
 
Just making my mark so I can find this later.

Hey 64, should I bring my J-Station and POD to the Jamfest?
Also, Dragonworks is trying to get those Conneticut wankers to come down to Jamfest and steal our gear. I told them we'd have our women whip their asses. :D
 
Sure Lt. Bob, bring it. Maybe we could swap patches.

Okay it was another slow day, so I have some improvements for this patch.

Change the amp to Brit Stack and set the gain to 7.5, Treb to 8.0 Mid to 7.1 Bass to 7.0 and Level to 6.5. Change the cabinet to Boutique 4X12.

Everything else stays the same. This should please you guys that want an older ZZ Top sound too.
 
What? No J-Station users here any more? I was really hoping for a little feedback.
 
Lt. Bob said:
Just making my mark so I can find this later.

Hey 64, should I bring my J-Station and POD to the Jamfest?
Also, Dragonworks is trying to get those Conneticut wankers to come down to Jamfest and steal our gear. I told them we'd have our women whip their asses. :D
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I'll have my pod pro at jamfest...may even sell it if anybody wants it.
 
Man I'd love to see you get a V-Amp, so I can get in on some of this stuff.


bd
 
bdbdbuck said:
Man I'd love to see you get a V-Amp, so I can get in on some of this stuff.


bd
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Why don't you get a J-Station? There're pretty cheap these days.
 
just got the j-station for 135 from g.c. i love it for clean sounds the digital output is great to my 2480 , nice and quiet unlike my pod which is a hiss monster.. but the pods rectified sounds much better to me than the j ....Bostonfan2
 
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