SigurWes wrote:Started with your suggestions, but ended up here:
High Gain, Up*, Up, Down
Gain 9:30
Bass 1:00
Mid 3:00
Treb 3:30
Keep in mind, my amp is set up very dark (roughly: B5, M5, T3 all out of 10). I use Up clip with my strat and down clip with my PRS with humbuckers.
Right on, glad you found a cool setting and welcome to ILF! And thanks Matt for all the great tips, nicely done! So did Randy always have that frozen modulation sound on his guitar like on Crazy Train? Like a chorus or flanger that's not moving plus super high gain? Is that right? Love that tone by the way, awesome sounding. Maybe a cocked wah or something that really pushed the mids? I don't know anything about that tone but it's cool and I'd probably set the Elements with pretty high gain, LED clipping, very high mids, mid toggle in the middle, bass toggle down.. kind of my Slayer setting too I guess.
DarkAxel wrote:Here's one of my favourites for bass. Great faux-muff sound with heaps of punch and body due to the Mids control :) Can get even more boomy with the Bass switch down, but i' play through a 15" cab, so this is ENOUGH :lol:
Nice, Jan! Very cool you play though a 15", that's something I'd like to add to my arsenal bigtime.
Clean Channel wrote:Aside from the volume knob, I leave my Elements like this all of the time. I sometimes swap the 'mid freq' switch to center as opposed to up.
Also very important to note that a lot of my favorite tones at this setting come about when I roll the volume back on my guitar. A rolled-back signal into this sounds so darned good. I roll up when I want that thicker sound or some more sustain, but more often than not am rolled back a bit. Also, when I want a different sound, I stack all of that into the Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop which also sounds amazing!
That's cool, Tim, pretty cooking setting there! The Barbershop is awesome, really unique sounding.
goroth wrote:Awesome - that's pretty much my favourite setting as well!
My favourite Elements settings have the midrange knob either all the way up or all the way down, I always end up at midrange extremes.
rustywire wrote:I'm not sure if it's been covered here...didn't read through the 28 pages...but The Elements can function as a buffered volume pedal/mute/manual tremolo.
Set Volume & Gain to minimum, fully ccw, Mix to maximum, fully cw. All other knob/switch settings can be set to whatever.
Using an expression pedal, toe-down mutes the signal and heel-down fully passes it.
Such a useful piece of kit. Brilliant :hobbes:
Haha John, that's a really creative use of the Elements! I don't think I've heard of that setting before.. manual tremolo pedal.. *pretty impressed*
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 3:18 pm
