"Cover" using the right patch

I'm not familiar with these songs myself.

Could you add the names of the artists, so I can find them, then I'll see what I can do for these songs.

Hi,

I would be interested as well in a reply.

I'm playing in a cover band myself and i'm planning to order the fantom G this week.

Greetings

I wonder what level of exactness you're expecting from your copycat covers?

Some of the songs you mention have been performed by so many people that the versions people know best aren't actually the originals. 'Mustang Sally', for example, is probably better known from the 1991 movie The Commitments here in the UK than the version recorded by Wilson Picket, let alone the original written and recorded before even that by Mack Rice.

Most people covering a song, even those in so-called tribute bands, are more concerned with trying to recapture the spirit of the original (or the version they're thinking of) rather than producing an exact facsimile. The more refined nuances are likely to be lost on your audience anyway during the midst of a live gig in a busy venue.

I would suggest you use your ears and trust your own judgement. There are plenty of decent patches among the presets so audition them yourself. It's not as if there's a shortage of horn section imitations on the Fantom-G. There are lots of Numanesque lead synths too. It shouldn't take that much tweaking to get somewhere close to what you're looking for.

I totally agree with comradec.

I actually think the 'best' coverbands I have heard are the ones that have not tried to replicate the originals, but just play the original in their own style, while not raping the original, but bringing some own heart into it.

The Commitments is one of my all-time favorite band movies. If anyone of you haven't seen it, go rent/buy it!

I have a lot of these 'Trojan Records' 3CD box sets that have Jamaican versions of old pop-songs, country-songs etc. Some of them are better than the originals, some not, but all of them get people excited every time I play them, because people know the songs, can sing along, but still it brings something new.

But as to stay on topic.

I think it is an great idea if cover-band people start posting patches in the open-patch archive thread + http://fantomg.navarin.de

Put the song name as patch name or something that describes the sound well.. I have a lot of user made guitar patches on my Boss GT-10 and I find it very useful to nail down certain styles by scrolling trough them.

1) Working for the weekend - Loverboy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayS_C8hqqkI

2) Cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x061EsM5prM

3) American Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMsIrKjSM6Y