![]() Like before, Music Is Win fancies tweaking with this sound a bit, so he swipes up on the delay slot, engaging it for some lead tones. The sound gives palm-muted power chords a chunky, percussive feel, evoking the unmistakably cutting sound of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets. Thanks to a mid-boosting overdrive pedal running into a high-gain amplifier, it’s an easy journey straight into the land of old-school thrash. Battery – Metallica High-gain tones and modelling amplifiers don’t always go together well, but that’s definitely not the case here.Music Is Win would rather a phaser over a chorus for this specific sound, but luckily the spark app means this only takes a quick tap on the modulation slot and a scroll down to Positive Grid’s included Phaser effect. This tone comes from running a compressor into the front of a 5150-style amplifier, along with some heavy modulation and some light delay and reverb in its effects loop. Eruption – Van Halen Assuredly one of the greatest guitar solos of all time, if not the greatest.While the soaring solo is an iconic part of this sound, the real test comes with the crunchy alternating octave riff of Purple Haze’s intro – and Spark delivers the goods: it’s wild and hairy, but it doesn’t lose any low-end thump. The thick octave fuzz running into a dirty British-style amplifier takes you immediately into Are You Experienced Hendrix territory. Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix Music Is Win pulls this Hendrix down from the ToneCloud, where you can find tens of thousands of tones that have been uploaded by Spark users across the globe. ![]() ![]() Music Is Win shows you how Positive Grid’s “Dancing In The Room” patch “works right out of the box.” This particular example sets Spark to run a Blackface Duo amplifier, allowing for miles of headroom so the percussive string hits can really ring out – and includes a booster pedal for when you need to kick into the solo at the end of the song. Slow Dancing In A Burning Room – John Mayer Mayer’s soulful yet modern take on blues has inspired countless fans to pick up a guitar, and this song from his 2006 record Continuum features one of his most iconic tones ever: immaculately clean and glassy, with just a touch of compression and soaked in reverb.Here are the ones Music Is Win takes a look at: Tones can be downloaded straight from the ToneCloud, an online database hosting tens of thousands of user-created patches. So how does Music Is Win go about getting eight iconic tones in around 20 minutes? Thanks to the Spark app, it’s quite easy – paired to the Spark amp itself, it provides an intuitive interface that lets you quickly adjust settings, and place effects into a predetermined signal chain of a noise gate, drive, amplifier, modulation, delay and reverb. Thanks to Positive Grid’s powerful and award-winning BIAS Tone Engine, Spark can model thousands of pieces of gear. Positive Grid’s Spark provides a much easier and cheaper route to achieving your dream tone.
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