Quest for Like a stone by Audioslave Zoom G1xOn patch

We've been playing this song for a while now. It was about 5 years ago I think when I joined Crossedwind (a band from Norwich) and we played this song. I was using Digitech RP55 that time and I just improvised by connecting an expression pedal on the unit. I think I wrote a blog about my Digitech RP55. So, just have a look on that one.

Now back on this Zoom G1xOn quest for Tom Morello's patch setting on the song Like A Stone by Audioslave. I looked online actually on what effects he was using and then try and copy it using my Zoom G1xOn. It didn't work. I looked on YouTube and found Chris Benton, check him out guys he's got loads of patches using Zoom G1On. Having said that, I copied his settings but because he was using Zoom G1On, it doesn't have an expression pedal to act as a Whammy pedal. But still the intro, verse and chorus were all great patches so I copied it.

Now on the guitar solo part, that was the most difficult one. I continue to search for the patch setting via YouTube and even online community and for some reason when I go started again to really get Tom Morello's tone, I accidentally used my Slash tone patch and just added the Whammy which is PdlMnPit effects by Zoom and edit the parameters and play around with the effect chain. Plus I added delay which I already knew about it because on my previous settings where I covered this song Like A Stone, I have always used the delay for the guitar solo. And yes, jackpot, I found that tone.

Note: I did a video about Effects Pedal Chain on my YouTube and also a blog about Quest for Slash Tone. Please watch it because it might help you as well to learn and know more on how I customize or setup my Zoom G1xOn.

Here's my simplified version of Like A Stone, the first settings that I did. This might help as well for you to understand or use on other effects pedal that you might have.

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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.

Hope you learned something useful here and please don't forget to subscribe on my blog as well as on my YouTube channel. All the very best to you guys. See you later!