Hello!
I have only recently stepped into the Fractal universe, and came specifically for the ability to attempt recreating some of Frank Zappa's effects setups and tones. Like others on here "Yo Mama" from Sheik Yerboutie is one of my absolute favourite solos and textures. So the moment I got my FM9T 3-4 weeks ago, I set to work on trying to get close to recreating this epic tone!
I feel I have gotten it very close, I am very new to programming this device and still learning about levels and settings, so to some pros there might be some things that are wildly off, I'd love to hear what anyone interested thinks as I'm sure it can be improved on. I tried to simply follow what Frank mentioned about his setup in magazine interviews about his stage and recording setups and apply it to the FM9T as much as is possible and as you'll see the CPU is teetering on the edge of melt down! Maybe there are some tricks to thin this out a little?
It is not a polite sound, this preset is noisy! I'm betting the solo guitar track off the original might sound pretty harsh if it was played on it's own. I am also no sound engineer so I have just used my ears to eq this to sound and feel like the original.
Here is a snippet of me putting it through it's paces with an SG Special on the bridge pup, riding volume towards the end, getting very nice feedback at not too loud a volume from my Adam T5Vs in my workshop. Scene 1 is Yo Mama then the other scenes are token Zappa-esque sounds, some with the Dynaflanger Delay block which @InsideOut kindly shared in his Zappa preset, that is a lot of fun with a wah!
I have only recently stepped into the Fractal universe, and came specifically for the ability to attempt recreating some of Frank Zappa's effects setups and tones. Like others on here "Yo Mama" from Sheik Yerboutie is one of my absolute favourite solos and textures. So the moment I got my FM9T 3-4 weeks ago, I set to work on trying to get close to recreating this epic tone!
I feel I have gotten it very close, I am very new to programming this device and still learning about levels and settings, so to some pros there might be some things that are wildly off, I'd love to hear what anyone interested thinks as I'm sure it can be improved on. I tried to simply follow what Frank mentioned about his setup in magazine interviews about his stage and recording setups and apply it to the FM9T as much as is possible and as you'll see the CPU is teetering on the edge of melt down! Maybe there are some tricks to thin this out a little?
It is not a polite sound, this preset is noisy! I'm betting the solo guitar track off the original might sound pretty harsh if it was played on it's own. I am also no sound engineer so I have just used my ears to eq this to sound and feel like the original.
Here is a snippet of me putting it through it's paces with an SG Special on the bridge pup, riding volume towards the end, getting very nice feedback at not too loud a volume from my Adam T5Vs in my workshop. Scene 1 is Yo Mama then the other scenes are token Zappa-esque sounds, some with the Dynaflanger Delay block which @InsideOut kindly shared in his Zappa preset, that is a lot of fun with a wah!