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Does anyone know where the stems section has gone from the downloads section? There only seems to be instrumentals available for download now. I was hoping I might find stems from the new Rockband parachutes to everyday life dlc. As a side note.. is there a search option on the new forums because I couldn't see one?

Jonny uses 2 separate delays both set with different delay times to get the sound at the end of Fix You. I use a combination of my TC Electronic D-Two rack delay and a second delay from a Line6 M5 to achive the sound live. I can't remember what delay times I have them set to off the top of my head though but I could have a look next time I've got a show.

We've just picked up a Kawai MP7SE for the band. It's a heck of a bit of kit. What sound have you found works best? We were using the Kawai EX Pro from AcousticSamples before through mainstage but now we have the MP7SE we want to find something as close to the current sound as possible. We used it for the first time at a festival last weekend but didn't get much chance in soundcheck to run through the different sounds.

I'd love this too. It was really interesting. I've even messaged the rythm studio on facebook asking if it can be put back up but had no reply,

Also, it says invalid link once I log in to 4shared...

Are these the ones from rock band or different ones?

It does sound similar but the second ones sound somehow brighter and punchier. I'm guessing the second ones are the actual MP9000. Is there any way to make the soundfont brighter like the original?

Interesting. I'm guessing they're using Pro Tools on the macbooks? I'd love to have a good poke around their gear backstage. I wondered if they would still be using the muse receptors for the VST's since Muse Technologies folded a while back but it seems like they still are. I guess while they trust the macbooks for the playback they don't trust them to run the VST's. We run all ours from Mainstage and it's been rock solid (apart from the odd midi lead or the midi socket on the piano breaking!!)

Not yet but I will be over the next few weeks. I play in Coldplay tribute band Coldplace and we already use the Kawai EX Pro samples through Mainstage. Interestingly though, we were using a different sample set - the "player" ones I think. Fuzzyman has suggested to use the Rim/Side samples. There are definitely some strange overtones in the player samples that are really prominent on certain chords/notes. I'm hoping the rim/side samples are a bit more even. We probably wont put any reverb on for live use as the FOH soundguy usually likes to have the signal dry to add their own reverb depending on the venue.

I'm pretty sure all of the samples are triggered in the Muse Receptors. The keyboards are purely used as Midi controllers. Even Chris' piano is just used for a midi controller. The kawai has proper weighted keys so will feel a lot different to most 48 key controller keyboards you can buy, plus it looks more substantial.

It's a cut down Kawai MP9000 modified by Ken Rich sound services. You can see a picture on his facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=372823159451075 Mobile Link: https://www.facebook.com/KenRichSoundServices/photos/a.372822949451096.84434.135045819895478/372823159451075/?type=1&theater

Does anyone have a font that can make a logo similar to the one that's been used for the hindi logo on the amps and drumskin for the AHFOD shows?

The thinline re-issues are great guitars. The only problem is the pickups. They are nothing like the original Wide Range Humbuckers. In fact they are just regular (not even great) PAF size humbuckers potted in a wide range case. The original Wide Range pickups were designed by Seth Lover as an alternative to Gibson's PAF buckers, with a more meaty tone than fender's usual single coils but still retaining the clarity fender guitars are known for. They used a different magnet - Cunife, which is no longer available. Most pickups now use Alnico magnets. The original pickups are very rare and therefore expensive. They sound very very different from the pickups that come on the re-issues. There are a few alternatives, I have a set of these in my "Sunny" http://oilcitypickups.co.uk/wrandknuckle.html and they sound great. They are hand built and designed to give a very close sound to the originals. You can see the guitar in my avatar pic.

That's great! I've private messaged you... I don't think we've ever played twisted logic? Certainly not while I've been in the band. X&Y songs we've done in the past are: Square One What Id White Shadows Fix You Talk Speed of Sound Low The Hardest Part I'll get looking around for suitable venues. Where about's in the UK would people like to see this and how far would people be prepared to travel?

We're still trying to get the the USA. We've had an offer to play LA for the past 2 years but you wouldn't believe how tricky it is getting the work visa's arranged! We're hoping to get this sorted soon though. We're based in the UK but we tour europe regularly and have played all over. I think this show would have to be a UK show, possibly a theatre show but if it worked well and there was enough interest I'm sure we could do a few more dates. We've been getting back into X&Y lately and there will be a few old songs coming back into the set. We soundchecked The Hardest Part at the last gig!!

Hi guys, I was just wondering what with the 10 year anniversary of X&Y if people would be interested in a special X&Y anniversary show? I play guitar in Coldplace and we are considering doing this but I wanted to gauge interest from Coldplay fans. The idea would be that the show would be in two halves, the first half would see us play X&Y in its entirety, and the second half would be a mixture of hits. I have seen Pink Floyd tributes do a similar thing playing the whole of dark side and it works really well. It would probably just be a one off unless there was a lot of interest. What are people thoughts? I have included a link to our promo video [video=youtube_share;JEhTN3IYUvE] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Piano on Speed of Sound is a Tack Piano. It's a piano with metal thumb tacks pushed into the hammers. it gives a metallic, honky tonk ish kind of sound. They used one on Lovers in Japan and Viva La Vida too. The guitar also doubles up the intro riff too.

If you have the same tab book I do then it is truly shocking. I'm tempted to write to the publishers to complain. It's literally one of the most inaccurate tab books I've ever seen. Look at how they've tabbed True love... apparently it's tuned down a semitone too. It clearly isn't. If you watch how Jonny plays it it makes total sense and theres no way he would have played it differently on the record. Regarding Ink, you can clearly hear it's in an open tuning as you can hear the pedal tones when chris is playing. I tried it the tab book way at first and it makes no sense whatsoever!

It's almost certainly the Rat, he used that and an MXR Micro Amp for most things in the early days. The Fulltone OCD was on his board for the Viva Era but MX onwards he has used a RAT, Ibanez TS9 and 2 HBE Powerscreamers.

Mike builds boards for a number of top artists. They are all different as each artist's requirements are different. It looks like he uses some of the same things on a number of boards. but they're certainly not all the same as Jonnys. I don't think it's a midi switcher either. I'm pretty sure that it's just a loop switcher. Literally 1 button switches on one pedal.

Actually, the majority of Jonny's delays come from either his TC 2290 or Line6 Echo Pro in his rack, just as most of his reverbs come from the Eventide unit in the rack. His board has a loop controller (the stepped thing with switches) that switches in loops that contain the pedals (1 pedal per loop). Each piece of rack gear is in it's own loop too. I spoke to Mike Hill who build Jonny's board a few years back when I was building my own board (I play guitar in a CP tribute). Here's a pic of my board.

I asked the oracle this question a while ago regarding Jonny's amp: Q "Hi Oracle, can you please ask Matt McGinn what Jonny's new amps are that he's been using for the recent shows since the iTunes gig? How come he's abandoned his trusty Fender Devilles?" A "Your wish is my command... "Not abandoned, don't worry - it's the same rig, we just put the speakers in soundproof isolation boxes away from the stage, so the audience didn't get their ears blown apart in the small room.""

I asked the oracle this question a while ago: Q "Hi Oracle, can you please ask Matt McGinn what Jonny's new amps are that he's been using for the recent shows since the iTunes gig? How come he's abandoned his trusty Fender Devilles?" A "Your wish is my command... "Not abandoned, don't worry - it's the same rig, we just put the speakers in soundproof isolation boxes away from the stage, so the audience didn't get their ears blown apart in the small room."" I don't suppose you managed to get a picture of his current pedalboard did you?

Thanks very much Patrik. I'm dying to hear this! If anyone else has these it ight be worth uploading links on the multimedia section maybe?

I'm pretty sure it's a H7600 fakfak. I have the Eventide Space reverb pedal and though I've not tried I'm sure you could get the strawberry swing effect on there. It sounds like a backwards reverb to me. The Space has most of the reverb algorithms from the Eventide rack units, it's a great piece of kit. @42Panda The best thing to do is find some live versions, either bootlegs or official stuff and see what kind of tones Jonny uses live. His studio sound is always different to live, though I actually prefer his live tone, it's a bit more raw than the studio stuff.