| A few things to know before you start — |
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You never bother with manuals or the "read-me" files? Go
straight to the tones listed by style here,
or to 'em listed by amp here.
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You can download all of the tones and audio examples
here (20mb file),
or download just the tones
here.
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These tones are mostly for the studio, not for live performance. Some of them may
sound a little thin standing alone, but they're designed that way to fit better into a mix
without a bunch of post-EQ. Yet, you'll probably find that with a little tweaking,
most of the tones will work fairly well playing out (see Eric's note above). |
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Most of the patch examples are played on the Strat, usually neck/middle pups for
rhythm or acoustic tones, and bridge/middle for edgier tones. A few of the recto
patches are played on the SG, and the Tak is played for a few of the acoustic patches. |
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Although most of these patches were designed from the ground up, I certainly don't
claim originality for all of them — some are just simple modifications to the factory
patches or to other patches we found on Custom Tone. For example, Brute 2 is a mod on
the factory Brute patch. I do think that these mods make the patch better (for my
purposes, at least), but I'm not claiming authorship. |
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The MP3's are encoded at 128, so the sound quality is only fair, and my guitar playing
is quick 'n dirty for these short examples, so be forgiving. |
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Not all of the examples have been posted with the patch. There'll be a few more posted every day,
and eventually they'll all be there. If you get a 404, try again tomorrow — the
example will probably be there. And, if you'd like to help us out with an example of
your own, go here for details. |
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To keep things simple when grouped by style, we'll just use 5 catagories: |
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MINBLUE - Signature tones for us - the ones we use the most |
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CLEAN - Patches for Rhythm, Jazz, Country, Acoustic, etc. |
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BLUES - Dirtier than Clean, but it ain't Metal |
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DIRTY - Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, etc. |
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EFFECTED - Extra Special Tones for Extra Special People |
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| Okay, okay, enough already. Here ya go:
Tones By Style
Tones By Amp
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