Trademark 60

Demo #1
"Clean Fender" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil/middle single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb

"Dirty Marshall" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: onboard spring rever

Demo #2
"4x12 Clean" Rhythm Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker/middle single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb, slight compression from a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor

"Van Halen 1" Tapping Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #3
"Hendrix-Little Wing" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil/middle single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb

"Hendrix-Purple Haze" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #4
"Stevie Ray" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb

"Metallica/Mesa Boogie" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #5
"Santana-Clean Rhythm" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: neck humbucker/middle humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb, slight compression from a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor

"Santana-Lead" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: neck humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #6
"B.B. King Blues" Lead Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: neck humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb, slight compression from a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor

"Clapton/Bluesbreaker" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #7
"George Benson Jazz" Intro Lead, and Rhythm Parts
Guitar: Yamaha AEX-500 semi-acoustic
Pickup: neck mini-humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb, digital plate reverb from an Alesis Nanoverb, compression from a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor

"Larry Carlton Jazz" Lead Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb, digital plate reverb from an Alesis Nanoverb, compression from a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor

Demo #8
"Compressed Lead" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

"Lead" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil
FX: onboard spring reverb

Demo #9
"Funk" Rhythm Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: neck single coil/middle single coil
FX: Slight onboard spring reverb

"Funk Lead" Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: Slight onboard spring reverb

Demo #10
Vox AC-30-Queen (Crazy Little Thing Called Love) Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: neck humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

Vox AC-30-Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody) Part
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 120
Pickup: neck humbucker
FX: onboard spring reverb

A/B comparison
Guitar: Yamaha Pacifica 112
Pickup: bridge humbucker
FX: slight room reverb from an Alesis Nanoverb

Right Side: TM-60 miked at the center of the cone, one inch from the grill cloth, with a Rode NT-1 large diaphragm condenser microphone.

Left Side: SansAmp amp simulator direct out

All guitars recorded using only unmodified presets from the owner's manual, with both the direct out and a Shure SM-57* microphone right in front of the speaker's cone, at about one inch from the grill cloth. The two signals went on different tracks, and (in most cases) where panned opposite during mix down, with the direct signal more towards the left, and the miked signal more towards the right.

ABSOLUTELY no outboard EQ has been added during tracking or mix down. * A condenser microphone would have done a better job at reproducing the true sound, and all the nuances of the amp, but the SM-57 has been chosen due to the fact that about 80% of all guitar amps ever recorded have been recorded using that particular microphone. Incidentally, pretty much every guitar player knows its sound very well, making it a very good point of reference, as well as an excellent choice for "real life" comparisons. However, a condenser microphone was used for the A/B comparison sample, to demonstrate how similar the sound of the amp in a room and the sound of the SansAmp direct out are.

Bass parts recorded direct with a Yamaha BBG5S bass, trough a SansAmp PSA-1 pre-amp, using variations of the SVT Preset. All basses have been moderately compressed during tracking, using a FMR Audio RNC1773 compressor.

All tracks written, produced and mixed by Fred St-Gelais, at "Studio La Chambre", Quebec, Canada.

Guitars, basses, drums, loops and programming by Fred St-Gelais

Additional Drum loops and percussions by Mike Letricits.