Note that these clips are meant as representative sounds. Tones and volume levels could differ depending on your particular setup. Setting positions are designated using clock positions.

• ALCHEMY: first passage is the bypassed guitar signal. The pedal is then engaged with GAIN = 12, LEVEL = 10, HUE = 12, TONE = 12. The sound is thick and rich with harmonics.
• MURANO: first passage is the bypassed guitar signal. The pedal is then engaged with GAIN = 12, LEVEL = 12, BASS = 12, TREBLE = 12. The tone is crisp and clean.
• DELIRIUM: first passage is the bypassed guitar signal. The pedal is then engaged with GAIN = 12, LEVEL = 10 and TONE = 12. A fine-grained, smooth overdrive tone.
• AURORA: pedal settings are GAIN = 1, LEVEL = 1. This clip is slightly different than the others because it is a lower gain OD and hence needs different material to showcase where it excels. Guitar is an Ibanez Roadstar II with neck humbuckers, into a delay pedal for slight echo. Note at 00:19 how picking harder gives you more sweet overdrive. It makes muddy humbuckers sound like single-coils, but with all the sustain.

Recording Details

• Guitar: Taku Sakashta Indian solid-body electric using bridge humbucker (Duncan Antiquities), tone and volume on max (except for Aurora clip above)
• Cables: George L’s
• Signal path: Guitar into JTK Harmonics pedal into delay pedal (very slight mix and repeat, 500-600ms), then into digital audio workstation laptop using a SigmaTel A/D chipset (24-bit 192 kHz capable).
• Recorded 24-bit mono @48kHz.
• Post-production effects: cabinet simulator and light reverb.
• No EQ or spectral enhancement other than above.
• Mixed in stereo at 24-bit, 48 kHz, downsampled to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz, then encoded to MP3 at a bit rate of 256 kbps, stereo.

January 2008
Player: JTK