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goofing around trying to record a track using vh 1 as a backing track - but see what you think - pretty fun to do.

Feel Your Love Tonight
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... ID=5855103

Atomic Punk (i know the solo is a mess)
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... ID=5854889

Little Dreamer
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... ID=5854946

I'm the One (didn't get too far with this one )
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInf ... ID=5855140

Great sounding clips !

You should give EVH your number in case he feels sick on tour...you could fill in no prob. You dig in to them strings just like young ed did.

Excellent clips.

Rich

thanks guys - it's pretty fun to do - as silly as it may be - was very nice of Ted Templeman to record the tracks in such a way that you can just sit in ed's seat if you want!

hey BTW - in case anyone cares - that's my 4x12 at full tilt - whereas usually i use my 1x12 through the attenuator - no attenuator here - the neighbors got an ear full as i recorded it outside on my porch - pretty big performance room!

also - this is my plexi with el34s in it instead of the KT88s. and the FREDs are still in there but i think they are taking away some of the organic life - and putting a rock solid, albeit sterile, foundation under it all.

thanks fer listening - cheers!

Rob I was reading in your sillybits column. It says you used your JTM100.

Were you still using the weber(no attentuation) line out to the JTM with another cab with yourV-30s?.

Sound great man, love the tone!

harddriver wrote:Rob I was reading in your sillybits column. It says you used your JTM100.

Were you still using the weber(no attentuation) line out to the JTM with another cab with yourV-30s?.

Sound great man, love the tone!

that's an older diagram. these latest clips use the setup i am now using live (this week anyway!) which is - the plexi into the weber on full load tapped out of the weber line out going to the boss 7 band (15 db CUT) into the JTM100 which humming along on about 2 (with 4 6L6s, 2 is loud as a monkey with a snare drum) into the 4x12 loaded with weber pre-rola treatment STAN-SPEC speakers. the v30s cab is my backup - i don't even plug it in for fear that the soundman will somehow end up pumping it through the house instead of my blessed STAN-SPECS! [kiss-kiss] - glad yer digging the tone - me too!

still digging the "re-amp" rig eh? i may have to try that one of these days. i'd like to hear how the digital effects do post.

yeah try it!

i'm just using a delay on the power amp (JTM).

i WAS running the entire signal thru an old digitech delay before it went into the JTM but i think that messes up my gain structure. it creates a bottleneck in the digitech delay and i lose head room and it adds some distortion of the variety that is NOT good.

now i'm using the technique that mightymike told us about where you insert the delay in a jumper. then you can adjust the amount of delay yer hearing at the vol ch II pot - and this sounds awesome even with a cheap little stomp box echo unit. IMO! what an elegant, low tech solution. i love that shtuff.

Great TONE!

I gots ta get me some of the Stan Spec Webers!!!

Where did you get those "guitarless" clips? Would be great practice!!!

you take the right side of the mix only copy and paste it into a new file as a mono clip. using whatever sound editing software you may have - i used Sony SoundForge. early VH will work for this - later albums the guitar is not so much always isolated on the left.

i think you have that tone down bro. at this production level? immensely close. eddie should be way jealous of you from the new clips (of him) i've heard...

sounds great rob!!

I find myself partial to Rockstah,Ralle and Stan's clips as far as nailing VH1 ...the album that is.

But, my preference has been your clips Rob due to having heard that 1978-79 early bootleg tone in there with your reamp/slave rig.

And that MightyMike jumper/delay thing helps tremendously.

before you did the jumper thing it seemed the echo repeats were off a bit or just to heavy in the mix.

Dude, I think if you jumpered an Echoplex in there, you would have that early bootleg sound absolutely without a doubt nailed.

The Fools clip(WACF) you did a while back is just amazing because it shows how well a reamp/ slave rig cleans up with the twist of the volume knob.

Do you find with the re-amp/slave set-up that you have more control over your sound live and the leads/solos just seem to flow easier??????