operative451 Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Hi! So, i'm mucking about with old kit. I'm actually getting some not-bad sounds out of my elderly Zoom 506 and as it pre-dates the POD et al, i came to wondering how it works. it's got some alleged 'Amp tones' where the drive section would be in a 505, but what actually are they? How did manufacturers do 'not modelled' amp tones? Is it like, a bit of drive, EQ and compression or something else? The clean sounds are ok, the drive is nasty though and the fuzz... Actually sounds kind of like a 'bitcrusher' type of effect! I've been mainly fiddling with it in a 'do i need a proper compressor' sort of way. and the tuner is handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 (edited) I've got a Zoom 506II which is a great bit of kit, in some ways I prefer it to my Zoom B1 on, which has taken over from it, I use the EG distortion which isn't spikey fuzz with maximum gain then EQ it to suit, EQ 0n 6, contour on 0, have the compression on C9 but I don't thing that does a lot with using the distortion, It's gets me into JJ Burnel territory, sort of. Just remembered there's a bassist in a local mod band who wouldn't use anything else, he gets a good sound too. IMO all amp sims are just distortion and EQing with presets Edited August 11, 2016 by PaulWarning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Yup, mainly drive and EQ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefrash Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Mainly eqing but with a mild colouration towards its particular flavour. .. in fact not always mild. Bare in mind an amp sim pedal almost always has other highly useful functions in it ( di/ multi channels/ gain/ speaker out / ground lft/ tuner out etc) making it a bit of a work horse. In my experience anyway. Funny though... I have a zoom506. .. my first bass pedal...I actually think the fuzz is quite cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operative451 Posted August 12, 2016 Author Share Posted August 12, 2016 Cool, thanks! Ok, back to fiddling... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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