Katana - Axe-Man Patches #1

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AXE-MAN WROTE>

Here is my first lot of patches.

The usual disclaimer...I like gain, they are aggressive patches, they won't suit many people's tastes, they might be too bright for your guitar/amp setup or have too much gain etc. With any luck they give you an idea of a basic signal chain.

I used a K100C 1x12, a darker guitar like an mahogany Anderton with an ebony board with a SD JB in the bridge and a coil tapped Jazz in the neck (no actives etc). I've tried every single dirt pedal and found good clarity with these two internal ones. Some of the others create too much dirt or bass or seem a bit flubby and lose clarity when adjusted etc (they are digital dirt boxes rather than SS).

Patch 3 uses a Bogner Blue. Everything at 12 apart from mids which are 3/4 and volume which is 3/4. Plexi mode, variac off, no boost, pre EQ to the left and structure to the right.

The external pedal sounds really good and allows me to use internal delay.

They are aimed to cut but not take my head off. I've used my Jim Root Terror mostly to help craft the rough tonal envelope (how bright, how much presence, the heft of the bottom end, levels of gain with a boost etc).

They are set for home playing levels. Quiet to quite loud but not gigging volumes. Bottom end response was important and matches my tube amps. It has a nice chunk about it now.

Don't complain if they sound crap! :p


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Elantric

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Quotepatrick2099 said: ↑
I got my Katana 100 watt combo. Thanks to Elantric, getting everything set up was easy.

It took about 30 seconds to dial in a warm clean, with a little bit of reverb, that I liked. I haven't have much luck with a clean chorus sound I liked, but I'm not used to that many parameters for a chorus, so I'll have to mess with that some more.

I wasn't having much luck dialing in a dirty sound I liked. I put the parametric eq in FX and dropped the 8k and 16k, which helped a little, but something was still off. I had remembered someone in this thread saying to lower than gain and use an OD pedal at low gain. I tried this and it was MUCH better.

So now, I have a clean I like and a dirty I like. I'm using a one-button Marshall footswitch to go between the channels, that is working perfectly.

Axe-Man wrote>
Most modelling systems and even amps work best like this.

Reduce the amp gain a notch or two, add a boost to kick it up to what you'd want the amp driving and use the EQ on the pedal to add tightness/clarity etc. Use the parametric to sculpt the sound to your liking with additional tweaks to BMT and presence as you see fit.

Often you go from a very dirty but kind of fuzzy, overly bass heavy tone lacking elements of clarity to something much more aggressive and percussive and clear.



Quotegustavz said: ↑
just tried to import your patches into my BTS and it worked fine. Many thanks!
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=19669.0;attach=15089


So i'm looking forward to a great exchange-bank of user-patches maybe here:
https://www.vguitarforums.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=825cad142990126d5172da34d5e6107e&board=235.0

I like your Clean-Sound and the use of the parametric EQ, although for me there is to much of gain in the further patches, but this depends only on my taste.
Again: Thank you for sharing!

Axe-Man wrote>
Yes, it's definitely more of the brootz/Djent side of the spectrum and won't appeal to many. I really wanted to explore how heavy this thing could get and feel it does well at a solid home volume level. This may expand the potential audience as so far it's getting a lot of love from clean guys and rock guys...just adding some love for the high gain blokes too!

Backing off the amp gain and reducing the boost slightly might also help provide a nice compressed lead tone and provide some ideas/directions for further exploration for mid gain players.

I still need to explore and tweaks the delays etc.

I'll have to check out the patch exchange Elantric!