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TONE NAME: Bah Humbug

  • Created with: Helix LT
  • Author:
  • Band:
    Arctic Monkeys
  • Guitarist:
    Alex Turner / Jamie Cook
  • Guitar:
    Telecaster + Les Paul
  • Tuning/Strings:
    D-Standard
  • Style:
    Alternative/Indie/Rock/Psychedelic
  • Date: 10/28/22
  • Downloads: 1161
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  • Comments:
    Intended to capture the sounds of the Humbug/Suck It and See era, though it can handle some of the newer Arctic Monkeys tones too. In 4 Snap/4 Stomp mode. The four stomps up top are a toggle between a slapback delay (when engaged) and a longer tape delay (went turned off), a phase 90, a chorus, and a toggle between a shorter spring reverb (when engaged) and a longer plate reverb (when turned off). The first snapshot is the clean Vox tone that can be used for the clean tone from the band in any era. It's set to have the longer reverb and delay, though this can easily be tweaked song by song with the buttons top row. SS2 is the more crunchy clean tone - think Favourite Worst Nightmare era - with a Teemah engaged, with slap and spring as the default. SS3 also has slap and spring defaulted, but with an OCD engaged for more distorted tones - this sounds great for the Dance Little Liar intro. SS4 is the lead fuzz tone the band is known for, which I typically use on the neck pickup with longer delay and reverb engaged. Used the Line 6 Drive here to emulate a tonebender, which i believe the band used int he studio. Additional stuff - using the OH VVRB E130 M+ IR, though you can use your own or a stock cab if you want. Also, there is a tremolo that's subtle engaged on for each SS, the band uses tremolo a lot so it made sense to have it always on here instead of dedicating a button to it. Additionally, the compression and EQ tricks from the SOAS project are used here, I like them a lot and think they work for this but tweak at your leisure. Lastly, EXP2 is set to engage an Autofilter block when you cross 50% of the expression pedal. Just acting as another button in lieu of one. I'm using EXP2 because my onboard expression pedal broke, feel free to adjust to EXP1 if you want. Band uses this effect on the Dance Little Liar intro, as well as a few of the songs off The Car. Overall, I think this hits both Alex and Jamie's tones fairly well, though I occasionally back off the amp gain when using my Les Paul for Jamie's parts.

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