Free Boston/Rockman IR's (Zip updated Nov 19)

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"he did say the sound of the X100 on its own was pretty awful"

 

Well, take that with a grain of salt because tone is obviously very subjective and let's face it, the cork sniffers have been against ANYTHING without tubes since the Rockman was invented.  The fact that that was THE go to sound for so many studios in the 80's, because of it's ease of use, kinda puts that opinion in perspective (at least for me).... YMMV.

 

Here's a photo (though, it's not a great one) on Phil Collen's XPR rig that he used for Hysteria and in the studio... note the Palmer simulator on top, the Randall 220 amp in the bottom of the top head, the Rockman Pro Bass in the top of the bottom head, and the XPR under it.  Phil has been using the Palmer with a Marshall JMP-1 for a long time, and that is his overall preferred tone.

 

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" something that had that rockman characteristic, but sounded more rounded out"

 

Yeah, that's pretty much the Rev 20 Sustainor.... it has that Rockman characteristic, but also has the bite of a real amp.

 

"so is the XPR just a processor"

 

Yes, and there was a modified version called the XPRa, which had extensive mods to reduce the noise floor on it quite a bit.  There was also a "boombox" style one called the XP100 with a 100 watt stereo amp in it, as well as a rare XP212 which was the XP100 in a cabinet with 2 12 inch Celestian G12-T speakers.  Then of course, there was the full stacks with the 500 watt amp.  I have all of the above, including the full stack, XP212, Rev 20, etc.

 

I temporarily bypassed the cab sim circuit on my Rev 20 Sustainor and took some Kemper (sorry Helix guys) profiles of that, then ran that through Ozone Isotope for some EQ matches of various tone and created merged profiles.  I was able to get some pretty damn close tone matches that way.

 

"X100 characteristics in a helix tone, have you got any tips on how to do it? Should we be boosting 800khz or adding a static wah etc?"

 

I used to have an HD500, so I'm only vaguely familiar with the Line 6 amp modelers.... but yeah, I think I recall using compression, then an EQ curve like the 6 band photo posted from my web site (ahem!, without permission...  LOL!) and a Plexi amp.  From there, the cab sim IR's posted should get you in the general ballpark, I should think.  You can trade out the 6 band EQ with a cocked wah, and/or you can add a cocked wah AFTER the amp for an even more pronounced effect.  Like I said, this is pretty much what I'm doing with my Kemper and the tone matches are pretty close (I think so anyway, YMMV).  Here's a couple of examples... first directly from the master then followed by mine (which admittedly is a bit thinner, I think, but the honk is definitely there).

 

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MTAF_Lead.mp3