Bought a Vox Tonelab! Have a listen!

[Strat-Mangler]

The MP3 is availble at the bottom of this msg...

NOTE : MP3 LINK FIXED!!!!

Here's the story...

I bought a Tonelab, after reading about it. I don't have a lot of money and have only one electric guitar and one acoustic guitar. Also only one amp. I'm hard to please as well, so I wanted something amazing. I saved up a lot of dough and finally splurged on a Tonelab.

When I plugged it in, it sounded awful. I had plugged it into my PC through the Line-In of my soundcard and the results sucked ass. I plugged it through my amp, a Fender Blues DeVille 4x10 and it sounded horrible as well. Let's just say I had regretted my decision.

By accident, a few days later, while I was playing some more through it, I accidently bumped the adapter that converts a standard headphone's 3.5 inch tip to the big round tip that can fit into the Tonelab's output and the sound became 5 times better instantaneously, but only on one speaker, for a brief instant!

Needless to say, I tried to find an angle and pressure where I would be able to have that sound for a lot longer a time, and in stereo as well. Finally, by pure accident, I discovered that the cable I was using was also defective.

It sounded much better now, but there was something missing. I decided to change the tube from the Electro-Harmonix to the Groove Tube I have in my amp. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! I didn't think it would have this kind of impact, but sure enough, it did!

So now, it sounds close to 10 times better than before!

Have a listen at a short clip of my cover of Hendrix' "Angel" without lyrics (I'm a good singer, but way too shy to record myself). ;)

Guitar is a alder body from a '94 Strat, Fender 57/62 pups playing in the neck position.

Tell me what you guys think!

http://www.asdsolutions.net/misc/angel.mp3

[tonemonkey]

Well Mr Mangler you know what I think, still, you getting used to it now?

[photoweborama]

I can't get to the link... but I have heard them and they are awesome.

[Strat-Mangler]

Link should work fine right now. Problem is that with Geocities, only about a dozen people/day can download the MP3. If anybody has a server suggestion, don't hesitate.

Yes, I do appreciate the positive feedback, tonemonkey & photoweborama. Actually, photo, this is a new clip. :)

If I get suggestions for the servers, I'll upload the MP3 over there.

[mgade]

No link no work

[photoweborama]

Actually, photo, this is a new clip. :)

Well what I meant was I've heard the Tonelab before, not your clip. I still can't get to the clip, but that's ok..

[zenland]

Still not working. This is what it said when I went there.
"If this site belongs to you, please read this help page for more information and assistance"
I've only read the review in GP but I would like to hear them.

[Strat-Mangler]

No problem. Just remembered that I have some storage space along with my web account, so I'll use that a re-edit the 1st post! That will be done tomorrow, so stay tuned. ;)

[Rickenjangle]

S-M,

I would never, ever plug anything through a headphone out if I could avoid it. You should get a couple of cables from Radio shack that are 1/4" on one end and whatever type your sound card has on the other end. The headphone output is usually always filtered, so it won't sound good through an amp, and is likely to be too hot of a signal anyways.

[Strat-Mangler]

It's not plugged through the headphone out. I guess I didn't express myself correctly. The cable has a 3.5 inch tip just like one would normally find on the end of a headphone wire. That's all I was refering to. :)

The cable is actually plugged in the output for the left channel of the Tonelab.

[chuckocaster]

sounds good to me. i personally prefer the vox modeling stuff over anything else. all the bands i've mixed that used that stuff sounded pretty damn good. glad to hear things worked out for you.

[hudpucker]

ooooo!! oooooooh!!

Can't get that clip to play, either. But I look forward to hearing it...

[chuckocaster]

i heard it just fine. nice avatar!

[Wilko]

3.5 inch tip?! Huh?

[Strat-Mangler]

The MP3 clip has been fixed! Have a go at it!

[Thunder]

IMHO...that sounds great!!! That's one of my favorite Hendrix tunes, great job!!

[Strat-Mangler]

Thanks a lot! I had to tweak the Tonelab for a long while before I managed to get that tone! Thanks again!

[hudpucker]

Sounds good but now that you've gotten a ToneLab...


it sure would be nice to hear YOUR playing in the JamZone instead of your rendition of someone else...



(best zombie voice) ....join ussss....

[mgade]

CoooooooooooOOOOOooooOOOOOoooool sounds man!

(Hud, is that Avatar legal in the US?)

[hudpucker]

(Hud, is that Avatar legal in the US?)

I certainly hope so--it's an actual graphic that was used liberally in the late 50s in the US. It also serves as proof that we are not quite as naive as we were back in those 'golden' days...

[moonpie]

What were you thinking Michael G?

Just looks to me like a couple of fellows looking for airplanes and dirt........sharing the duties, if you will............

Oh, you Europeans....always with your Colonial minds in the gutter..........

[mgade]

He he, and I'm a homofobiac or something.. Womaniac? Cogniac?

[Strat-Mangler]

hudpucker, yeah, no problem. It's just that it's the best way to gauge the sounds, since you're comparing it to the original. Don't worry ; I'll post some samples once I hear some nice Blues MP3s. :)

mgade, thanks a lot, man!

[Crazy Diamond]

I cant link to the clip,I'd love to hear it,and I'd like the patch as well.

I'll tell you this much...I have a 66 Blackface Vibrolux Reverb that has great tone as you can well imagine,but my Tonelab/Atomic Reactor 112 also has incredible tone,in fact it's hard for me to choose which sounds better.
If you get a chance to try the Tonelab/Atomic do yourself a favour and listen for yourself.

[SteveB334]

The link must be down again I'd love to hear it as well!!

[hudpucker]

Hey Crazy Diamond,


You have any clips of that Tonelab/Atomic combo? I'm seriously GASssing for one for my POD XT these days. Does the Atomic give it some of that tube 'feel' or is it just mainly the tone that is affected?

[Crazy Diamond]

Hey Crazy Diamond,


You have any clips of that Tonelab/Atomic combo? I'm seriously GASssing for one for my POD XT these days. Does the Atomic give it some of that tube 'feel' or is it just mainly the tone that is affected?

Definately real tube feel,when your Modellers volume goes over 4 your strings begin to feel like sponge.

You know that feeling when you can hear feedback about to kick in and you can control your sustain with your fingers or guitar movement...and then you change notes just because you feel like you're in control of your tone...is that a decent description.

It's a genuine Tube Amp,I love the bloody thing.

I only have a cheapo Peavey mic,so I dont think it would be fair to record some mic'd clips with it,but I'll give it a shot in the next couple of days....but in January my Engineering bud will help me do some genuine mic'd clips.