RP 90 patches

IceCreamMan

Anyone have any ,please pass them on. I have had the RP90 for a while now always only using the standard presets which for the most part are ok...now getting into the custom stuff as the lil RP90 has some pretty good features and uses the same chip as the bigger RP range just does not have all the features.

so if you have any please send , if you want some send me a pm with yr email address. I have searched the net and while there are not many i did find a few.

cheers

AlanRatcliffe

In my experience, it's always best to learn how to create your own patches from scratch as it teaches you how to use the unit properly and find out what works best for your application.

With any modelling processor, break it down to basics (amp and speaker, then mic) and figure out exactly what each can do before moving on to the effects. When you do start using the effects, try them out one at a time and learn how to use each by itself until you have a good idea of the capabilities. Then move on to the next effect and finally, once you've learned them all, start combining. Once you've done that properly, you'll be able to do nearly anything with the unit and be able to create your own patches from an idea.

Presets and other users' patches are almost always created with a different guitar and amp to yours so you have to at least spend some time tweaking them to taste, but results can be a bit unpredictable compared to a from-scratch patch, where you know what each component in the signal chain is doing. Having said that, I do sometimes like reverse engineering others' patches to figure out exactly how they did something. ?

IceCreamMan

Alan Ratcliffe wrote In my experience, it's always best to learn how to create your own patches from scratch as it teaches you how to use the unit properly and find out what works best for your application.

With any modelling processor, break it down to basics (amp and speaker, then mic) and figure out exactly what each can do before moving on to the effects. When you do start using the effects, try them out one at a time and learn how to use each by itself until you have a good idea of the capabilities. Then move on to the next effect and finally, once you've learned them all, start combining. Once you've done that properly, you'll be able to do nearly anything with the unit and be able to create your own patches from an idea.

Presets and other users' patches are almost always created with a different guitar and amp to yours so you have to at least spend some time tweaking them to taste, but results can be a bit unpredictable compared to a from-scratch patch, where you know what each component in the signal chain is doing. Having said that, I do sometimes like reverse engineering others' patches to figure out exactly how they did something. ?

yip found that out on Saturdya arvie after faithfully trnscribing all the patches i could find ....albeit not many but i had some preconceived ideas of how to take this shortcut and use the RP 90 for its simplicity and portability. programmed it and while it sounded goodish through my lil vox mini on my ibanez it just made my ears bleed so will have to tkae the long way round to get this all ok ... ? so thats next saturday arvies job ..start with the amp models and muck around til i get something li like ...idea is to create no more than 5 or 6 patches for all my needs though....

AlanRatcliffe

IceCreamMan wrote programmed it and while it sounded goodish through my lil vox mini on my ibanez it just made my ears bleed

That's the other thing: most people can't program decent sounding patches anyway. Chances are it sounds like ass, even on their own setup. ?

so thats next saturday arvies job ..start with the amp models and muck around til i get something li like

That might be a little optimistic. I'm happy if I can program a patch a day that I'd be willing to use. The initial "getting to know" a unit can take days.

...idea is to create no more than 5 or 6 patches for all my needs though....

That's the ticket. Three or four "bread and butter" patches (basically clean, edge of breakup, crunch and maybe drive) for me. The rest are bonus, specialised "special effects" kind of things.

Something I usually do with a new unit is once I have most of my patches programmed, I'll start again with blank patches and try recreate my basic patches from scratch again, then A/B with my original versions. Almost without exception, the newer patches will sound better because while programming all the other patches I've gotten to know the ins, outs and "tricks" to the unit.