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Post subject: Boston - More Than a Feeling preset?
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 3:19 pm
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I know it's impossible to get that lead guitar sound perfect from my Mustang III, but has anyone on here gotten close? I'm new to electric guitar and have spent hours messing with every knob in countless combinations to no avail. If someone has something, please post. I've tried the exisiting Boston presets, but they're not very close for this particular song. Thanks.


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Post subject: Re: Boston - More Than a Feeling preset?
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 4:58 pm
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Dtutt wrote:
I know it's impossible to get that lead guitar sound perfect from my Mustang III, but has anyone on here gotten close? I'm new to electric guitar and have spent hours messing with every knob in countless combinations to no avail. If someone has something, please post. I've tried the exisiting Boston presets, but they're not very close for this particular song. Thanks.


You've got to keep in mind a couple of things about Boston songs. Scholz was an electronics guy, who designed and built a lot of his own effects. Secondly, most of the guitar tracks on that album are triple tracked (or more).

That's a hard combination to try to match.

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Post subject: Re: Boston - More Than a Feeling preset?
Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2013 9:13 pm
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Yeah, that MIT background really paid off for him. He was meticulous. Triple tracks and more played into different mics and layered on top of each other. I'd just like to play the song and be able to get some semblance of his sound while playing it live at least. Thanks for the reply.


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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:36 pm
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perhaps playing with the "minor thirds" preset will get you there.
let us know how it goes...


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Post subject: Re: Boston - More Than a Feeling preset?
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:26 am
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genesis.phrozen wrote:
perhaps playing with the "minor thirds" preset will get you there.
let us know how it goes...

The thing is you can only have 1 modulation effect, so you are unable to stack chorus to that(unless you have an outboard pedal). You could try using Tape Delay as first in chain. Use shortest delay and 40%-60% flutter,15% feedback, Big Fuzz- max sustain-Diatonic Pitch shift 3rds-major scale. Post Amp - Ambient reverb ( not for space, just to fudge out any roughness- level 2 decay 6 dwell 5 diffusion 7, tone 3).
Overall you want to kick up the midrange for this sound with treble at no more than 9 o'clock position, Bass 10 o'clock. A multiband compressor would be useful here :lol:

thompal wrote:
You've got to keep in mind a couple of things about Boston songs. Scholz was an electronics guy, who designed and built a lot of his own effects. Secondly, most of the guitar tracks on that album are triple tracked (or more).

That's a hard combination to try to match.

Yep . Even they had problems. I saw them live at the Rainbow and though tight nowhere near the album sound.


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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 11:52 am
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DonX14 wrote:
thompal wrote:
You've got to keep in mind a couple of things about Boston songs. Scholz was an electronics guy, who designed and built a lot of his own effects. Secondly, most of the guitar tracks on that album are triple tracked (or more).

That's a hard combination to try to match.

Yep . Even they had problems. I saw them live at the Rainbow and though tight nowhere near the album sound.


Yeah. I saw them in 78 (?), and the sound with only one guitar was a lot different than the wall o' guitars on the albums.

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