POD Patches – Guitar World (May 2008)

Here are some guitar tones I cooked up to go with the May issue of Guitar World. Every month I make some POD patches to go along with the transcriptions I play through while practicing. People always end up asking me for the POD settings so here they are. You can download the patches in Gearbox format to use with any compatible Line 6 product. You can also put the settings into any other amp and see how close you can get. This month I made Motorhead, Metallica and Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar tones. There are some sound clips here too if you want to see how close you think I got before downloading the patches.

Motorhead – Ace Of Spades

Preview original album
POD X3 reproduction

Signal path (bass amp 1):

• Boost+EQ pedal
• 1968 Brit Bass (Marshall Super Bass)
• 1967 Marshall Basketweave 4×12 cab
• AKG D112 microphone

Signal path (bass amp 2):

• Boost+EQ pedal
• 1968 Brit Bass (Marshall Super Bass)
• Marshall Major 4×15 cab
• EV RE-20 microphone

I used my Line 6 Variax 700 Bass on the Clang-Green setting. This is a model of a 1971 Rickenbacker 4001 bass. Set your bass to the neck pickup to get the right sound. Lemmy uses these 4×12 and 4×15 cabs live which is why I went for the dual setup.

Signal path (guitar amp):

• 1997 Ibanez Universe with Dimarzio Evolution pickup
• 70s ProCo Rat
• 1968 Marshall Plexi Super Lead
• Marshall 4×12 with Celestion Vintage 30s
• Shure SM-57
• Parametric EQ
• Small room reverb

The guitar sound of Fast Eddie Clark is pretty shrill at times, especially on Ace of Spades. I used the Rat pedal to give it that extra bite. Make sure you use a hot bridge humbucker on this one.

Stevie Ray Vaughan – Texas Flood

Preview original album
Me noodling on the POD X3 SRV sound

Signal path (guitar amp 1):

• 1958 Fender Bassman
• Neuman U67 microphone
• Boss CE-1 Chorus-Ensemble
• Tiled room reverb

Signal path (guitar amp 2):

• 1964 Fender Deluxe Reverb
• Neuman U67 microphone
• Parametric EQ
• Small room reverb

I used my 1997 Ibanez Universe on this song too. I put a push/pull tone knob on that switches the two humbuckers to single coil pickups. The neck pickup is a Dimarzio Air Norton and this guitar sound was crafted using it in single coil mode in conjunction with the middle Dimarzio Blaze II single coil pickup.

Metallica – The Call Of Ktulu (clean)

My POD X3 sound clip

Signal path (guitar amp):

• 1992 Marshall JCM-900 (clean channel)
• Marshall 4×12 with Celestion Vintage 30s
• Sennheiser MD-421 microphone
• Chorus
• Large hall reverb

I just did a Ride the Lightning era distorted sound in February, so I focused on doing a clean Metallica sound this time. I used my Epiphone Les Paul 7-string for this one. The guitar has a Seymour Duncan JB humbucker in the bridge.

Gearbox files

If you have a Line 6 device compatible with Gearbox software, you can use these patch files to load my guitar sounds directly into your hardware. Just unzip these to your Gearbox patch directory and have fun!

Gearbox.zip

There is currently a bug in Gearbox that prevents dual amp patches from showing up in the tone locker. For this reason I have included three patches for each dual setting: amp 1, amp 2, and the dual.

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