Uberjohn

Also known as Boss CE1, one of the best versions of chorus ever made.

If you use a wireless transceiver to connect your guitar to your pedals, then you will enjoy the same bright tone I am getting with the buffer built into my Les Paul Classic, which is also available from active pickups. The downside is that you can't turn it off if you are using a fuzz face or anything that is sensitive to input impedance.

I updated a new version of this patch on 1/22/2025. It has a 10 band EQ instead of a compression block. Enable the EQ to add treble to the tone. You can try a little less boost at 8 and 16 kHz to tame too much sizzle. Now if only I could remove the earlier patch to avoid confusion...

Sounds like you have 2 parallel audio paths active at the same time, with slightly different latency, and it is causing out of phase signal cancellation.

Ah, this explains why I could not find a patch for Nothing Else Matters that was worthwhile. So I spent time researching the amp and chorus they used and spent more time dialing them in myself - the CE1 defaults were nowhere near what I would use for chorus. Would have been nice to spend that time learning how to play instead. I'll upload my patch soon. Hopefully the next person will get a quicker start than I did.

I'm astonished that there's not a publicly available HX Stomp preset for the clean intro and outro on Nothing Else Matters. I'll try to upload a decent one later today. In order to build the preset I did some research, and discovered that the amp used by Metallica was a Boss Jazz Chorus, which has a Boss CE-1 chorus built in. Eureka! Also it helps if you can crank up the treble on your neck humbucker. The active pickups used by the band are very bright. I have a 2015 Les Paul Classic with a built in boost/buffer circuit that eliminates tone suck caused by distributed capacitance in the instrument cable, which really brightens up the 57 Classic pickups. They are so bright that I put metal covers on the pickups to reduce the treble a bit. You can also boost the treble on the amp model or add an EQ block if needed.

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks to both of you (Schmalle pointed me here.)

The software is already written, it just needs to be ported. Apple's OS is a close relative to Linux so it can't be all that major of an undertaking. Yes, it's nontrivial or I would be able to do it myself, but it's not that big of an ask. Microsoft and Apple are getting more intrusive every update, and I want to move entirely to FOSS.

It would be so nice to not be tied to Microsoft Windows or the equally bad Apple control freaks just to run HX Edit or Helix Native. Please provide us with Linux native apps. Thanks, John

Check out gilmourish.com for help with getting David Gilmour tone. DG used Tube Driver and compressor stomp boxes. Using the bridge pickup on a strat is another ingredient. DG uses a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 bridge pickup in his black strat. Heavy delay is a big component too. I use an FX100 and it does a decent job. I prefer the Civil War Big Pi fuzz model in my LA Lady pedal over the Big Pi model in the FX100.

Thanks! I installed the drivers on my Windows 10 system, making the FX100 a sound output device (via USB) and now I can play along with youtube and my own mp3s without any lag. I have connected the 2 "main out" lines to an old Yamaha AV receiver and drive either large speakers or headphones from there. Cables required: * USB 2.0 Cable - A-Male to B-Male (I have also used a USB 2.0 extenstion cable to lengthen the reach, but it is better to have a single cable.) * shielded audio cable, male 1/4 inch mono to male RCA plug (left channel from "main out" on FX100.) * shielded audio cable, male 1/4 inch mono to male RCA plug (right channel from "main out" on FX100.) Instead of the separate output cables, you could use the stereo headphone jack with a TRS plug on one end of the cable to a pair of RCA plugs on the other end.

You can also move the wild cards around in the signal change by drag and drop. So you can put your overdrive before the amp/cab, and tremolo after.

Once you have made your changes, hold down the active button (the ring around it will be lit solid red) until the ABCD switches flash. Release the button and then stomp the switch you want to store the settings into.

Hold down the currently active foot switch button (the one with a solid red light around it) for a few seconds until all 4 buttons flash. Release the button, and stomp the button for the slot you want to put the sound into. This overwrites the settings on that spot.