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Was listening back last night to the gig Playing Dead did in Lowell after the Furthur show ... the envelope sounds pretty fat and sassy now after I tweaked the preamp volume a little bit. Not really like a MuTron, it's a bit less "liquid" but very controllable with touch.

Would be interested in anyone else's settings on it to compare ...

http://playingdead.net/063010shakedown.mp3

(Excuse the big miss on the opening chord ... and after I counted it off, too ... LOL)

Agreed the AxeFX does a fine job with the effect. That's one effect that multi-effects boxes, even good ones, seem to struggle with.

sounds good, fairly responsive w/ proper quack. It reminds me a bit of those fall 77, april/may '78's where jerry's EF was really barking. 4-16 -78 fire, 4-21-78 truckin' come to mind.
For real though, Vic, this thread is useless w/o the receipt. Cough it up.

It's the same wah block settings as I gave you a while back, just pushing it harder on the input with the volume block. That and running the new "Double Verb" amp block with some extra gain to fatten it a little.

My AxeFX is 2000 miles away now. Have you upgraded to 10.1 yet? I'm psyched to try it but not the day of a show, which is usually when I see my rig again lately.

http://playingdead.net/envelopefilter.syx

Adjust the filter block right in front of it (as I did if you open this up in the editor) and boost it till it sounds just exactly perfect ...

playingdead wrote:It's the same wah block settings as I gave you a while back, just pushing it harder on the input with the volume block. That and running the new "Double Verb" amp block with some extra gain to fatten it a little.

My AxeFX is 2000 miles away now. Have you upgraded to 10.1 yet? I'm psyched to try it but not the day of a show, which is usually when I see my rig again lately.

Are you calling the filter block and volume block the same thing?

Yes, i'm at 10.1 and i never mess w/ my stuff prior to a gig. 10.1 is cool. I've been messing around w/ the fuzz face into hiwatts and bassguy w/ a 335 type guitar. Pretty slick. Have you messed w/ the trainwreck yet? If not, do it, it's pretty satisfying. I just have the 'wreck block and a reverb block into one of my cabs.

I think I have a filter block on that one ... same difference, really.

Toying with getting a second one for use here ...

playingdead wrote:I think I have a filter block on that one ... same difference, really.

Toying with getting a second one for use here ...

you could slum it w/ a standard.


What are you using for expression pedals?

I had someone verify that my Jerry patch would run on a Standard. It will. But a used Ultra sells for like $75 less than a new Ultra, so might as well get the one that holds its value since it would be a temporary purchase.