Quest for Slash Tone using Zoom G1xOn

Our quest for Slash tone doesn't stop by using only Zoom G1xOn, there's loads of factors and obstacles to consider. First is the guitar Im using. Although, it has humbucker pickups but it's totally different guitar from Slash. It's a Silvertone SRK1 SG copy guitar. Pickups were changed to Warman Zebra humbuckers. I don't have an amp so we are using the Zoom G1xOn amp simulator for our Marshall amp, which is MS Drive so that there's a bit of distortion. Then I added Plate reverb to it so that it will have like a delay/echo for doing some lead stuff. That's all that there is in terms of gear. Now on the guitar, I mainly use the neck pickup and put volume all the way up and then tone between 1-2.

Oh by the way, the MS Drive settings are Gain: all the way up, Tube: 40 and Level: 103. Then the Plate reverb was just added as an effects and did not change any of the parameters.  Now, let's put this patch to the test.

Now, that we know it's working and it did sounded great. We will add some more effects to it and save some more patches on our Zoom G1xOn as Slash's patch.

Our clean patch is going to be same amp simulator but this time just the MS 1959 so that it has less gain. Then, will add some chorus effects and Hall reverb. Will save it as Slash Chorus.

Then, we will save our Slash lead as our second patch. So that from clean tone and we want to jump to lead, it's just the next patch. But this time, we will add Wah effects on our previously saved patch. We will use Wah100 which is copied from an Ibanez wah pedal.

Our last patch is our crunch patch with a bit of delay. Slash used this on the intro of Welcome to the Jungle. And that's it, that completed our quest for Slash's tone. Hope you like it. Here's the video for detailed settings of the patches we made.

How to get the guitar effects for No Roots by Alice Merton using Zoom G1Xon

I was face with a challenge when I was asked to learn the song No Roots by Alice Merton. First is the odd timing and then second, playing the bassline and at the same time strumming the guitar funky breaks. And the ultimate challenge was the guitar effects settings where a bass sound was combined with the guitar sound.

So, here's how I did it. I used Just Funk is patch B4 on Zoom G1xOn and might be the same on Zoom G1On and then added an effects called MonoPitch. Just watch the video because it's hard to explain it here. Also please support my blog as well as my YouTube channel. I would gladly appreciate if you can follow me and subscribe. Cheers!

How to remove the noise of Zoom G1xOn

I've had several questions on my channel on how to remove the noise or hum of Zoom G1xOn and my answer to them normally are: Check if it's the power adapter causing it, if it's the guitar lead, if it's the amp, or try the battery option. But, I've really never considered to check the pedal itself. Because Im quite happy with my Zoom G1xOn and have used it during gigs, rehearsals and even recordings. And, Im happy with it, my bandmates are happy and even the sound engineers are happy with my pedal.

However, recently, I made a video as an experiment or comparison for my Zoom G1xOn by using two different guitars and used different leads plus trying out plugging the Zoom G1xOn directly to an audio interface versus guitar amp. I was surprised that it was not the guitar or pickups or amps or leads that's causing the noise, it's really the pedal.

Here's the video that I did:

So, after I watched this video, it made me think that there should be a solution somewhere. And so, by pure luck, YouTube recommended a video for me from AshBass5 about noise reduction for Zoom G3, G3X, G5 and I've watched the video and learned from something from him. I thought, aha, I can use this for Zoom G1xOn.

So here it is. This is how to remove or minimize the noise of your Zoom G1xOn. Just go to EDIT and add effects, scroll and look for ZNR, then either turn the DETCT to Gtr-In and turn the THRSH up to 17 or 18. Or, you can leave the DETCT as Efx-In but put the effects first on the chain before the amp.

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Mosky 4-in-1 DTC delay converted to spring reverb

Here's how I converted the delay pedal into a spring reverb. It is very useful if your amp doesnt have reverb or you dont have a reverb pedal. Also reverb effects pedal is more expensive than delay pedal.

I put the level to 1 o'clock, delay at 9 o'clock, and repeat at 9 o'clock. It might vary, depending on what delay effects pedal you've got. But, for this Mosky 4-in-1 DTC, this settings works. Also if you don't have acoustic simulation effects pedal, this could be the solution.

Then I setup my overdrive for boost during lead or as a rhythm crunch. Level at 1 o'clock, drive 8 o'clock, and tone at 10 o'clock.

Distortion setup volume 1 o'clock, presence 1 o'clock, tone 10 o'clock and gain at 2 o'clock. I use this during lead or heavy distorted rhythm

Gear used:

Lyon by Washburn electric guitar, neck pickup.
Plug to Mosky DTC 4-in-1
Then out and into my Behringer GDI21
(It's like a DI box/amp simulator. I used the clean fender-ish option.)
Then out and plugged to Focusrite iTrack pocket
To to my iPhone 7 using Impact app that comes with the Focusrite iTrack Pocket.