Rockman Tone in 2017

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LLL said:
I notice his virtual wah freq is set to 707Hz... this is part of the crucial midrange (roughly 600-800Hz) that provides clarity (not brightness), allows easy pinch harmonics, etc... but too much and you get a honking duck. :lol:
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That's interesting because Digitech has a downloadable pedal (which is also included on the RP units) called the Amp Driver which has an adjustable 600hz hump which they describe as a crucial frequency for the metal sound.
 
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Beer$ said:
That's interesting because Digitech has a downloadable pedal (which is also included on the RP units) called the Amp Driver which has an adjustable 600hz hump which they describe as a crucial frequency for the metal sound.
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Well, I wouldn't bother listening to any of my advice; cuz here, I only post mostly accurate cover tones/tunes recorded in my home studio.

I mean, it's not like I'm pumping out originals left and right here - only then would I know anything about tone...

:lol: :naughty:
 
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LLL said:
Well, I wouldn't bother listening to any of my advice; cuz here, I only post mostly accurate cover tones/tunes recorded in my home studio.

I mean, it's not like I'm pumping out originals left and right here - only then would I know anything about tone...

:lol: :naughty:
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Don't even worry about it man. I write originals for my band, do a lot of production work in my studio and I definitely appreciate and benefit from people who can deconstruct and emulate tones from scratch. We're all musicians at the end of the day.
 
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Beer$ said:
Don't even worry about it man. I write originals for my band, do a lot of production work in my studio and I definitely appreciate and benefit from people who can deconstruct and emulate tones from scratch. We're all musicians at the end of the day.
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If you listened to that Michael Sweet rig rundown, he has a great metal crunch tone (voiced more 80's style, of course, but still metal).

It's scooped to a point, but there's that wonderful "squeaky squonky" kinda honky pinch-harmonics-laden peaked midrange that just peeks out in the tone; notched of course.

That's the 707Hz.
 
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LLL said:
If you listened to that Michael Sweet rig rundown, he has a great metal crunch tone (voiced more 80's style, of course, but still metal).

It's scooped to a point, but there's that wonderful "squeaky squonky" kinda honky pinch-harmonics-laden peaked midrange that just peeks out in the tone; notched of course.

That's the 707Hz.
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No doubt. The frequency you hit the gain stages with is as if not more important that the output.
 
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Listening back to all the songs with Rockmans, it's a pretty d@mn serviceable tone especially for its time. I don't find it as thin as people have said. Even Painkiller and Dam That River don't lose any heaviness using Rockman heavy rhythm tones.
 
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Andy's Tone Tips contrasts getting an 80's tone using a Rockman X100 headphone amp, and then pedals:

 
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YouTube user rubenreza demonstrates his Rockman Sustainor with the song "More Than A Feeling":

 
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This video is a guitar ballad by Fredrik Tjerneld:


It's a few years old, but I don't think I've posted it before. It's recorded with a Rockman Sustainor.
 
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I sold all of my Rockman modules, except for the Equalizer, Stereo Chorus, and Stereo Echo. Had Tom Scholz designed the Sustainor with compressor and mid EQ defeat, it would be the most sought after solid-state preamp out there.
 
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YouTube user Kostas Xatzopoulos demonstrates his Rockman Stereo Chorus along with a Washburn EC 29 and Mesa Boogie V-twin preamp pedal:

 
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rbc said:
Andy's Tone Tips contrasts getting an 80's tone using a Rockman X100 headphone amp, and then pedals:

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Wacky... if he had bothered switching to an Ibby RG, a tricked out LP, something with a DD, and something with an EMG 81, i daresay their own creators couldn't his tone from their own
 
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LLL said:
This concept works great with a lot of different rigs as well.

Typically, the pre EQ is set to a "frown face" midrange hump so the guitar can sing (the guitar is a midrange instrument)... then post EQ, it is shaped further with a "smilie face" scooped mids type of setting.
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Has any amp/ampsim ever made this a feature? A combined control that boosts the fundamental before the pre-amp distortion and cuts it after the pre-amp? I don't know what you would call that. I guess that might have been what the Distortion Harmonics switch did on the Rockman Distortion Generator.
 
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Taylor Rhodes demos the Rockman Distortion Generator covering the Boston song "Cool The Engines":

 
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rbc said:
Has any amp/ampsim ever made this a feature? A combined control that boosts the fundamental before the pre-amp distortion and cuts it after the pre-amp?
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Not that I know of. But I do seem to recall my Alesis Quadraverb (still have it) had params. for pre and post EQ... but that
was all after the ADA MP-1 (signal chain-wise).

Plus that kind of rig setup is usually only found with professional big-name players; typical schmoe just drags his amp and pedals and plugs in.

It's like a half guitar, half studio rig.
 
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YouTube user Mikenekomaru GT does some comparisons in the sound between the XPR, Distortion Generator, Sustainor and X100. This is using Rockman distortion:

 
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