Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2004 10:36 am
<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Effect<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: SFP 3.1<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Requires: Modular III-FleXor<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> Hello 
I found the sound of FleXor stock patch amazingly good with my Stratocaster, and I decided to keep the basic saturation modules but to add some features and change something.
I added a Noise Gate module at the input, with the double advantage of its main task and a gain control in that stage.
Then I used a FleXor follower to make a compression circuit, right after the N.G. stage. A and D of the follower are those of the compressor, plus there is a slope control in the vca I used for the compressor circuit.
The output of this follower goes also to the first modulation input of the saturation modules, because if you use a very compressed sound you basically loose the touch response of the saturation, and so I decided to make possible a dynamic response using the envelope of the input. You can also have reverse response on dynamic, good to match solo and chords volumes.
Then I added a second Envelope follower, whose attack is modulated by a constant, that directly modulates the second modulation input of the Saturation modules. This one is needed to change saturation from the typical fast attack given by a diode rectifier of modern amplifiers to the vintage "Tube rectifier Sag" that is a very recognizable "blowing" effect on distortion arousal. If you want to play blues you'll want to have this position, while the other can be better for metal. And this is not related with the intensity of distortion.
Then, keeping the chain of the saturation modules as it is in the original patch, I added some volume controls and attenuators between them, to be more sound flexible with a control on the levels.
Then I added an XY Creamware Xfade, where I can mix the last stage with the sound coming out from previous stages. I connected it using the ABCD letters order related to the effective stages, so there is not a geometric correspondence with the modules in the patch, but you can move stuff around if you prefer...
At the end I replaced the 2 FleXor LP filters for the speaker simulation, with a mono insert module with a PEQ4 inside, more suited to reproduce the effective curve of a full range speaker, as there is a fast decreasing of freqs below 80/90 hz depending if it's a 12" or a 10" and different mid shapes for the different brands...I found a couple of diagrams on google and copied them in the settings.
Everything can be also used in a creative way, but it happens that I have an original '64 blackface Sup. Reverb of a friend at home, and I found quite easy to reproduce it's tone and nuances with this patch.
I hope you like it
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: alfonso on 2004-11-25 10:41 ]</font>
I found the sound of FleXor stock patch amazingly good with my Stratocaster, and I decided to keep the basic saturation modules but to add some features and change something.
I added a Noise Gate module at the input, with the double advantage of its main task and a gain control in that stage.
Then I used a FleXor follower to make a compression circuit, right after the N.G. stage. A and D of the follower are those of the compressor, plus there is a slope control in the vca I used for the compressor circuit.
The output of this follower goes also to the first modulation input of the saturation modules, because if you use a very compressed sound you basically loose the touch response of the saturation, and so I decided to make possible a dynamic response using the envelope of the input. You can also have reverse response on dynamic, good to match solo and chords volumes.
Then I added a second Envelope follower, whose attack is modulated by a constant, that directly modulates the second modulation input of the Saturation modules. This one is needed to change saturation from the typical fast attack given by a diode rectifier of modern amplifiers to the vintage "Tube rectifier Sag" that is a very recognizable "blowing" effect on distortion arousal. If you want to play blues you'll want to have this position, while the other can be better for metal. And this is not related with the intensity of distortion.
Then, keeping the chain of the saturation modules as it is in the original patch, I added some volume controls and attenuators between them, to be more sound flexible with a control on the levels.
Then I added an XY Creamware Xfade, where I can mix the last stage with the sound coming out from previous stages. I connected it using the ABCD letters order related to the effective stages, so there is not a geometric correspondence with the modules in the patch, but you can move stuff around if you prefer...
At the end I replaced the 2 FleXor LP filters for the speaker simulation, with a mono insert module with a PEQ4 inside, more suited to reproduce the effective curve of a full range speaker, as there is a fast decreasing of freqs below 80/90 hz depending if it's a 12" or a 10" and different mid shapes for the different brands...I found a couple of diagrams on google and copied them in the settings.
Everything can be also used in a creative way, but it happens that I have an original '64 blackface Sup. Reverb of a friend at home, and I found quite easy to reproduce it's tone and nuances with this patch.
I hope you like it
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: alfonso on 2004-11-25 10:41 ]</font>