MichaelW
Well-known member
New demo, lots of pedals used....the rest is TL;DR......feel free to skip....
A few months back there was a thread where we were talking about what we tend to play when we test pedals. @Robert mentioned that his was a big "A" chord...hahah.
Well, it got me thinking about how I generally test pedals, something I didn't even think about, but I realized that I too tend play the same "A" chord riff when I first fire up a new build. So I took my "test" riff, added a 1-4-5 progression and turned it into a song with an extended bridge section with some modulated changes for some contrast.
Thus, a rare original from me named "Stomping Ground".
I had also promised Wolfe Macleod a demo for the fabulous P90 pickup I got from him that I installed in my Harley Benton LP Junior project.
So I thought I'd do something a little different from my typical demo where I tend to use a lot of different guitars for different sounds.
In this demo, all the guitar tracks are done with the same guitar, to showcase both the incredible Wolftone pickup and also how versatile a single pickup guitar with
50's wiring can be. The harmonic content of this pickup is amazing. And the fact that I'm getting these killer sounds out of $155 guitar with some fairly modest upgrades (pickups, pots, bridge) is still mind boggling to me.
A couple of firsts for me on this demo:
First time recording myself playing bass (I'll ask for some forgiveness in advance, I'm not a bass player). My first bass I've owned.
First time programming drums. THAT was interesting.....turns out....I'm not a drummer either....hahah. I used the MT PowerDrumKit 2 vst plugin. This probably took me the longest time. (How many bars was that again.....can you even count Mike???
)
Pedals making an appearance in this demo:
In my time based buffered loop: Tourbus Delay, ManoWar Deluxe Delay, Gravitation Reverb.
In "front of board" pedal chain: General Tso's Compressor, Modus Operandi Boost
Main Guitar riff: Skylight Overdrive pushed by the Modus boost. Loving this crunchy, chewy overdrive!
Bass: Mercurial Boost into an Ampeg SVT UAD amp model.
Bridge rhythm guitars: Double tracked panned left/right. Touchstone Chorus running into my Electrovibe Mini.
Bridge slide guitars: Double tracked panned Left/Right: Modus boosting my Tellurian Overdrive.
Low gain bridge solo: Modus boosting the Jump Drive. Guitar controls rolled off for lower gain sound. Took a while but this pedal is really growing on me.
High gain bridge solo: Celsius Preamp boosting the Fuzz Aldrin (yah, I know this fuzz is supposed be voiced for Strats....but I've never been good with following directions...)
Outro guitar and slide parts: Modus boosting the Jump drive again but with guitar controls around 8 for both tone and vol.
A few months back there was a thread where we were talking about what we tend to play when we test pedals. @Robert mentioned that his was a big "A" chord...hahah.
Well, it got me thinking about how I generally test pedals, something I didn't even think about, but I realized that I too tend play the same "A" chord riff when I first fire up a new build. So I took my "test" riff, added a 1-4-5 progression and turned it into a song with an extended bridge section with some modulated changes for some contrast.
Thus, a rare original from me named "Stomping Ground".
I had also promised Wolfe Macleod a demo for the fabulous P90 pickup I got from him that I installed in my Harley Benton LP Junior project.
So I thought I'd do something a little different from my typical demo where I tend to use a lot of different guitars for different sounds.
In this demo, all the guitar tracks are done with the same guitar, to showcase both the incredible Wolftone pickup and also how versatile a single pickup guitar with
50's wiring can be. The harmonic content of this pickup is amazing. And the fact that I'm getting these killer sounds out of $155 guitar with some fairly modest upgrades (pickups, pots, bridge) is still mind boggling to me.
A couple of firsts for me on this demo:
First time recording myself playing bass (I'll ask for some forgiveness in advance, I'm not a bass player). My first bass I've owned.
First time programming drums. THAT was interesting.....turns out....I'm not a drummer either....hahah. I used the MT PowerDrumKit 2 vst plugin. This probably took me the longest time. (How many bars was that again.....can you even count Mike???
)Pedals making an appearance in this demo:
In my time based buffered loop: Tourbus Delay, ManoWar Deluxe Delay, Gravitation Reverb.
In "front of board" pedal chain: General Tso's Compressor, Modus Operandi Boost
Main Guitar riff: Skylight Overdrive pushed by the Modus boost. Loving this crunchy, chewy overdrive!
Bass: Mercurial Boost into an Ampeg SVT UAD amp model.
Bridge rhythm guitars: Double tracked panned left/right. Touchstone Chorus running into my Electrovibe Mini.
Bridge slide guitars: Double tracked panned Left/Right: Modus boosting my Tellurian Overdrive.
Low gain bridge solo: Modus boosting the Jump Drive. Guitar controls rolled off for lower gain sound. Took a while but this pedal is really growing on me.
High gain bridge solo: Celsius Preamp boosting the Fuzz Aldrin (yah, I know this fuzz is supposed be voiced for Strats....but I've never been good with following directions...
)Outro guitar and slide parts: Modus boosting the Jump drive again but with guitar controls around 8 for both tone and vol.
(E.g., I'm an old fart compared to most of you)
