Settings for Bradshaw/Dunlop/MXR Resonator gizmo

John McClung · Post by **John McClung** » 16 Oct 2013 6:09 pm

Just got the new Dobro emulator stompbox from Tom Bradshaw yesterday, here's my report:

It sounds great!

Here's a setting I like a lot; it even sounds wonderful on the low E string on my extended E9 Mullen.

Well done, Tom!

DALE WHITENER · Post by **DALE WHITENER** » 17 Oct 2013 6:08 am

I received mine yesterday also John and I fully agree with your accessment. Great product at a more than fair price.
Dale

Robbie Daniels · Post by **Robbie Daniels** » 17 Oct 2013 5:32 pm

I also received mine yesterday and I am impressed with it. My settings are about the same as your illustration. I think Tom did well.

David Pinkston · Post by **David Pinkston** » 22 Oct 2013 3:53 pm

I got mine. Sounds GREAT on lap steel.

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 23 Oct 2013 6:22 am

Are you guys putting it before or after the volume pedal? I have it after and it really varies the sound depending on volume pedal setting.

Setup:

Steel to Sarno BB to VP to effects to amp.

thx

bob

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 23 Oct 2013 3:51 pm

Bob,

I don't have one of these, but every simulator I have owned (Match-Bro, Bo-Bro, EQ boxes) have always sounded best before the volume pedal.

Since you are also using a Black Box, I would probably go: Guitar -> Black Box -> resonator -> other effects except reverb and delay pedals (I would put these after the VP) -> Volume Pedal -> amp.

Bob Snelgrove · Post by **Bob Snelgrove** » 23 Oct 2013 4:27 pm

Richard Sinkler wrote:Bob,

I don't have one of these, but every simulator I have owned (Match-Bro, Bo-Bro, EQ boxes) have always sounded best before the volume pedal.

Since you are also using a Black Box, I would probably go: Guitar -> Black Box -> resonator -> other effects except reverb and delay pedals (I would put these after the VP) -> Volume Pedal -> amp.

Got it! Heading down to practice right now.

Thanks, Rich

bob

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 23 Oct 2013 7:02 pm

more or less than $100?? whatever...it would be worth it just to support tom bradshaw, the most foolishly honest vendor/manufacturer on earth!

Peter den Hartogh · Post by **Peter den Hartogh** » 23 Oct 2013 11:26 pm

Link to Tom Bradshaws Website
http://www.songwriter.com/bradshaw/index.php

Link to the Resonator page with Audio Samples:
http://www.songwriter.com/bradshaw/resonator.php

Link to the Owner's Manual (pdf)
http://www.songwriter.com/bradshaw/pdfs ... manual.pdf

Len Amaral · Post by **Len Amaral** » 24 Oct 2013 8:57 am

I just got my MXR Resonator and it's a tone party. My weissonborn can sound like a dobro and adds unique tonal qualities to my other instruments. This pedal is not a one trick pony.

Lenny

Rick Anderson · Post by **Rick Anderson** » 24 Oct 2013 9:45 pm

Received mine and very happy with design..great job atom

C.D. Richards · Post by **C.D. Richards** » 25 Oct 2013 11:59 am

I rec'd my MXR Resonator and have tried it on several settings. I settled on settings very close to the ones John posted. Great effects at at very good price. Good job on design Tom. C.D. Richards

Robert Dominick · Post by **Robert Dominick** » 31 Oct 2013 10:55 pm

I just rec'd my MXR Resonator. Love it! It sounds great!! Great job Tom!!

Scott Hay · Post by **Scott Hay** » 1 Nov 2013 6:08 pm

Way cool. Gotta get one.

Tom Dehlinger · Post by **Tom Dehlinger** » 4 Jun 2014 5:08 am

I got my resonator pedal back in February but didn't have a chance to put it on stage until two weeks ago. Unlike everyone else I bought mine for a different purpose. Besides playing pedal steel I play dobro, and have struggled over the years to be able to play it with electric bands. The sound pressure on stage penetrates the guitar and blows up the "cone tone" and there is feedback before there is working volume. I've installed a McIntyre transducer on the spider and mounted an expensive lavalier microphone through the cover plate. These two installations required the use of a preamp, and those can get quite expensive, but didn't solve the sound pressure issue. I finally placed a lace sensor low profile magnetic pickup under the strings. Now I had volume, but the tone was magnetic, not cone tone. Tom Bradshaw's resonator pedal gives me the closest thing to real cone tone I've ever tried. The real proof was the comments from the band mates and sound man. All positive. My settings are very close to John McClungs (a little less blend). And I have to use nickel strings to balance the string volumes. Because it's a dobro I don't have to change how I play or think to get authentic tone. Cudos to Tom for figuring out the proper filtering to make this happen.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 7 Jun 2014 10:25 am

right on, tom. this is exactly what i always thought would work. i've got a dobro with a lace sensor and always thought the resonator pedal would be the simplist and cheapest option for getting dobro tone with volume. thanx...now i'm gonna get one!

Richard Sinkler · Post by **Richard Sinkler** » 7 Jun 2014 11:37 am

For most of us, playing a real resonator is impossible because of the feedback issues. That's where these doro simulators come into play. Chances are that nobody in the audience will notice it isn't an acoustic dobro. I would never try one in the studio though. If they insisted, I would lay down a track and at the same time, I would recommend they hire a real dobro player.

chris ivey · Post by **chris ivey** » 7 Jun 2014 2:24 pm

might as well welcome tom dehlinger ...this is the first time that i've seen a new forum member's first post be helpful info for me!

Paddy Long · Post by **Paddy Long** » 9 Jun 2014 7:14 pm

Chris - such sincerity mate - I'm impressed

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