for George Harrison's 12 string

One thing I have been having some fun with is a simulated multi-tap
delay, which makes for cool rock guitar sounds a la older Aerosmith.

What you do is get your favorite Marshall tone, and input a stereo "2-2"
config.

For the first one, pan the whole module hard left. Then select "Quad delay"
module. Make the delay in milliseconds - 17 to 24 ms- and it gives you four
tap points that you can pan left from 0 to 99 and each at a 0 to 100%
volume. I do it in steps, with 100% volume far left pan (99), then 75% at
about 64L, then 50% at 40L, and 25% at 20L...you get the idea, the signal is
spread out and feed into the system at various pan points with a slight
delay.

Then for the second stereo module slot you do the same thing, only reverse
it. Choose Quad delay. Pan whole module right. Then quad delay, and set
ms at bigger level like 36 (so there is a "spread") and then do the four
pans and four volumes, just a 1% or 2 off of the left side's.

Voila, -- 8 point tap plus direct sound. Experiment with volume levels for
each of the delays and also the 24ms times, like 17-19 on one side and 33 on
another. A very fat sound, sounds like multiple mics.

Think about "Adams Apple" on Toys in the Attic, that ballsy sound...I like
it more for humbuckers thus far... and I think the methodology I outlined
here could be improved upon by some of you brainiac types out there! I got
inspired for this when running through my SansAMP PSA into a Roland VS-2480
and I selected a "multi-tap delay" effect from the card/board and it had
something like 12 tapped delays points and I was in heaven.

If I had another JM 150 module slot I'd throw a chamber reverb last on it,
and pan that 80% towards one side, to get a secondary wash of sound after
the initial died a bit. Jimmy Page used to do that. You can do that if you
use a 2-4-4- combo in stereo and use a dual instead of quad delay in slot #2
to try it. Remember to pan the reverb on 1st page towards one side (but not
hard, more like 80-20)

I've been able to spend some more time lately with the Jm150...I think Kevin
is right, use the Mesa Boogie II Combo in "clean A" mode with a PEQ "Curve
3" as your first module slot and a little verb and it sounds killer with a
Strat, it's making me actually prefer it to the Fender Twin model if you can
believe it.

My musings...hope they are helpful. I really hope to have some time to do
some killer patches and send them to John for his website, I'm getting more
critical of my olds ones. Super tweaking!!!

Buddy Gill

I play a Zion R/T Classic, which is very strat-like (and very awesome). Use your neck pickup and keep your treble down. Boosting the reverb level to 85% almost gives a delayish feel to the sound. This is a superb tone to have in your pocket for mellow stuff. The reverb almost sounds lexiconish to me on this particular patch.

Most of these use Strats except where noted, and I have the J-12 set up for effects on/off and pedals for things like gain control or effect parameters like reverb time etc.