Umansky type tone

MichaelCP

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Howdy all, just looking for opinions on what you think. 2 months ago G66 posted a video detailing the touring rig of intervals bassist Jacob Umansky. It sounds killer and I tried my best to recreate off what he said and the small visual clues we see in the video. However my tone ends up really sloppy sounding, lots of extra noise, not as tight as I’d want. Question A, how do you think he connects everything? And B am I just dumb and he just has a stupid tight gate on it? Thanks! Just got an FM9 so I wanted to give it a shot
 
Hey man, welcome to the rabbit hole. Please post your patch and I'll take a look. Ive got a Dingwall so I can post some clips too if needed.

Essentially he's doing one of two things..

(1) Splitting low and high frequencies using X-Over block - sending high to 5153 Blue and low to SVT
(2) Same as above but not splitting and sending whole signal to both paths.

Here's an old preset I haven't touched in a while, its more Nolly than Umansky but a similar approach
 

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Also, all his Dingwalls use the higher end FDV pickups which are WAYYY more spiky and punchy than what comes on any combustion/NG model
 
Hi, how can you replicate his sound using the FM3, considering the FM3 has limitations for this type of setup?
don't use an amp for the clean side of the signal - an EQ and compressor should suffice - you can send this signal to the CAB block if you want
 
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I saw in a recent interview that he uses Parallax in the studio and replicates it with Fractal for the live tones

I recently got an FM3 and was able to get a somewhat similar patch going in my FM3 (soon to be an FM9 for unrelated reasons) by copying how Parallax works, which can be considered as 3 parallel signals or, more technically, two parallel signals with one of those consisting of two parallel signals.

The sub signal is the DI with a lowpass filter going into a compressor. The drive split is the DI with a band pass filter going into a crunchy distortion and the DI signal with a highpass filter going into a fuzzy distortion, both of which combine and then go into a cab, which then combines with the clean sub signal.

My FM3 patch uses an amp for the bandpass signal and a drive for the highpass signal, both going into an IR cab. The patch takes up around 50% CPU and even less if you use two drive pedals instead of an amp.

I've attached two variations of the preset, IDR which one I ended up using when I was replacing my Parallax preset but they're fairly similar. I wasn't trying to get a perfect 1:1 replica of Parallax so I'm sure you can get much closer by finding drives/amps that get closer and a different cab. Also, note that I like to set the highpass filter for the fuzz signal much lower than where most people would set it to, judging from the Parallax stock presets, so you'll probably want to turn that up higher for your Umanski tone. I also have a compressor right after the DI input, which is not how Parallax works, so you might want to bypass that. I do usually end up either recording with compression coming in (from my Mike-E) or using a Distressor plug-in before Parallax, which is why that's there.
 

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