The Elements, favorite settings, post them here!

[rustywire]

I'm not sure if it's been covered here...didn't read through the 28 pages...but The Elements can function as a buffered volume pedal/mute/manual tremolo.
Set Volume & Gain to minimum, fully ccw, Mix to maximum, fully cw. All other knob/switch settings can be set to whatever.
Using an expression pedal, toe-down mutes the signal and heel-down fully passes it.

Such a useful piece of kit. Brilliant

[Ryan]

Started with your suggestions, but ended up here:
High Gain, Up*, Up, Down
Gain 9:30
Bass 1:00
Mid 3:00
Treb 3:30

Keep in mind, my amp is set up very dark (roughly: B5, M5, T3 all out of 10). I use Up clip with my strat and down clip with my PRS with humbuckers.

Right on, glad you found a cool setting and welcome to ILF! And thanks Matt for all the great tips, nicely done! So did Randy always have that frozen modulation sound on his guitar like on Crazy Train? Like a chorus or flanger that's not moving plus super high gain? Is that right? Love that tone by the way, awesome sounding. Maybe a cocked wah or something that really pushed the mids? I don't know anything about that tone but it's cool and I'd probably set the Elements with pretty high gain, LED clipping, very high mids, mid toggle in the middle, bass toggle down.. kind of my Slayer setting too I guess.

Here's one of my favourites for bass. Great faux-muff sound with heaps of punch and body due to the Mids control :) Can get even more boomy with the Bass switch down, but i' play through a 15" cab, so this is ENOUGH :lol:

Nice, Jan! Very cool you play though a 15", that's something I'd like to add to my arsenal bigtime.

Aside from the volume knob, I leave my Elements like this all of the time. I sometimes swap the 'mid freq' switch to center as opposed to up.

Also very important to note that a lot of my favorite tones at this setting come about when I roll the volume back on my guitar. A rolled-back signal into this sounds so darned good. I roll up when I want that thicker sound or some more sustain, but more often than not am rolled back a bit. Also, when I want a different sound, I stack all of that into the Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop which also sounds amazing!

That's cool, Tim, pretty cooking setting there! The Barbershop is awesome, really unique sounding.

Awesome - that's pretty much my favourite setting as well!

My favourite Elements settings have the midrange knob either all the way up or all the way down, I always end up at midrange extremes.

I'm not sure if it's been covered here...didn't read through the 28 pages...but The Elements can function as a buffered volume pedal/mute/manual tremolo.
Set Volume & Gain to minimum, fully ccw, Mix to maximum, fully cw. All other knob/switch settings can be set to whatever.
Using an expression pedal, toe-down mutes the signal and heel-down fully passes it.

Such a useful piece of kit. Brilliant :hobbes:

Haha John, that's a really creative use of the Elements! I don't think I've heard of that setting before.. manual tremolo pedal.. *pretty impressed*

[SigurWes]

Anyone have a setting that can start me towards David Gilmour's overdrive sounds? Like the Colorsound Power Boost or Tube Driver? Sounds like the Another Brick in the Wall solo or the intro to SOYCD? I'm pretty close, but can't quite get it.


Current settings:
G12
V1
M3
down down up up
B2
M3
T2

(all settings o'clock)

[sylnau]

My new fave setting on low gain.

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[sylnau]

The favorite setting of the day!!!

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More mid.

[Ryan]

Heck yeah more mids! Nice settings, Syl, thanks for posting 'em!

[SigurWes]

Anyone still using the Elements? Anyone have a good setting for Steve Vai's ultra saturated lightning in a bottle sound?

[UnicornTrap]

I just got my elements today in the mail after wanting one for quite a while. I used sylnau's and ryan's slayer/high gain setting from page one, but I have the mix around 55%... with a mini overdrive (at low gain, high volume) before it. huuuuge!

[Ryan]

Right on, thank you very much!

[Timm Grimm]

Anyone have a good bass overdrive setting? Ala Demon.

[goroth]

everytime i stomp on the elements i end up playing old metallica or slayer.

diming them mids, it's the best, how am i supposed to NOT dime them?

This means that you are doing things right

[Ryan]

everytime i stomp on the elements i end up playing old metallica or slayer.

diming them mids, it's the best, how am i supposed to NOT dime them?

Yeah, I love that stuff too! Maybe some The Thing That Should Not Be into the opening groove of Hell Awaits... let's do it buddy!

I always put the mids knob either all the way up or all the way down, all the best sounds are at the midrange extremes if you ask me.

Anyone have a good bass overdrive setting? Ala Demon.

Good question, Tim.. I'd probably start in high gain mode, gain all the way up, clipping middle, mix all the way up, bass toggle down, bass knob at noon, mids knob all the way down, treble at noon, mids toggle up or down... I think that would rip and grind hard and be a perfect bass tone for all genres of music.

[Sparrow]

[Ryan]

Haha! This week hey buddy, thanks again and hope you dig it!

[Sparrow]

i had a busy day.

came home to my EPIC hhhhnnnng the mail.
got my sweet, sweet pedals Bud !! thanks so much

i CAN'T believe how F'n tweakable the Elements is??!!!
i Dimed shit !!! *smile*
bass and mid toggles .. yes please!

just too many sounds and tricks in this Guy Ryan!! i'm overwhelmed. i Love it.

i'm going to be diving into some Trem too!