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I know some of you guys have allot more knowledge about Randy then me so I'm hoping you can help me out. I'm trying to buy his chorus and flange pedal and was wondering if any of you have experimented to find out what his settings on those pedals are? Also, suppose you were forming an Ozzy tribute band would you leave the flange and chorus pedals on for the whole show if trying to replicate the "Tribute" album?

Don't know about settings, but I don't think he used flanger much.

I think he left chorus on, but the settings were low on it. (Low rate, high width) So it would fatten his tone a little.

I researched for a long time and found most of his pedal settings ill try to find them on my computer

That would be awesome if you could find them!! Thanks So Much!!!!!

I've only heard him use Flanger on I Don't Know and Picking Up the Pieces.

chorus:rate at 9 or 10 o'clock and depth up to about 11
flanger: manual: 10 o'clock, width: 2 o'clock, speed: 10 o'clock, regen: 2 o'clock. sounds pretty good that way if you have the distortion in front of it
distortion plus: output all the way up, distortion all the way down; output all the way up distortion at 10 o'clock; i use output all the way up 2 and a half o'clock to get my randy tone mixed with my amp gain at 2 o'clock (i get a spot on 1981 tour tone except when my amps turned down it only sounds like it when cranked to six) there are alot of theories about his distortion settings
eq in picture
next ill upload his stage echo settings
btw the flanger was from a guy on tk that was basing it off of evh's settings they seem to work for randy stuff tho when u put distortion infront of it
i only made one of these(the last distortion one) the rest i just gathered from randy sites and hours of searching
hope this helps

heres his stage echo
to see the settings open it up and zoom in this is the clearest picture ive found of his stage echo

Damn Man! Most impressive and thank you very very much!! All your research is quite impressive. Do you have a band? I'd like to hear some of your stuff as I'm sure the tone of your axe rules all.

no problem dude. Im not in a band right now but ill send you some samples of my tone in a couple days my amps not with me right now

Sweet pic

TheMrAxeman wrote:heres his stage echo
to see the settings open it up and zoom in this is the clearest picture ive found of his stage echo

What kind of echo is that it does not ooh like a echoplex or a korg

A Roland Space Echo. I almost purchased one and an Echo-plex (AKA Jimmy Page sound). Randy had an Echo-plex in QR and used Peavey's. Also there was an AMS delay used for the albums with harmonies and delay, they are quite rare today and expensive. Joy division used them also.

hansolo wrote:A Roland Space Echo. I almost purchased one and an Echo-plex (AKA Jimmy Page sound). Randy had an Echo-plex in QR and used Peavey's. Also there was an AMS delay used for the albums with harmonies and delay, they are quite rare today and expensive. Joy division used them also.

I have Randy's space echo reissue settings some were on my computer give me an hour and I will find them or were the place I fond them

Here

http://s298.photobucket.com/user/knuxav ... s.jpg.html

From what I remember of the bootlegs, Randy's use of chorus always seemed a bit inconsistent to me. On some of the shows you can't hear it at all, on others its very obvious, arguably getting a tad too strong in the mix depending on your taste in modulation.

I suppose a lot of it would depend on the set-up for each gig and how it was recorded. I don't pretend to know exactly, but I would bet it would make a difference. Example-
-Randy using just two/three stacks or using the PA as well? (was the chorus sent just to his stacks?)
-Audio recorded off the mixing board, or from an independent mic
-Room acoustics and positioning of mic.

I remember a diagram once that supposedly showed how he chained everything together, maybe that has the answers.

Off topic: I do need to get a good flanger one day...

Rob