Does anyone have a preset sounding like Andy Timmons? I have Plini, Abasi and Nolly. Any preset ala Timmons will be appreciated. Thank you!
1 Like
I have a couple of presets for Timmons tones on Archetype Rabeaā¦ I could try to recreate them on Nolly and/or Plini and send here later. 
Any Andy Timmons preset for Plini or Nolly would be appreciated!
1 Like
Based on this video, I tried my best to recreate his tones. First I went for the sound of his clean amp (which wasnāt easy to mimic, so I did what I could with the amp knobs and the post EQ), then added the comp (being used as a booster). Afterwards I tried to make the blues driver sound using the comp + drive pedal on the plugin. Then finally I tried to copy the ādissipating analog trailā delay sound and just added the long-ish reverb.
Since thereās no ādual delayā feature on the Plini X, I just tried to get a similar time with the dotted 8 (on ping pong mode).
The Timmons inspired - Comp Clean.xml (3.7 KB) is that first sound of just the comp + amp + dly/rvb
The Timmons inspired - OD.xml (3.7 KB) is very similar but with the added overdrive, trying to match the blues driver.
The Timmons inspired - Octavia.xml (3.7 KB) is a combination of the high octave with the fuzz sound, to mimic the octavia tone.
And the Timmons inspired - POG Fuzz.xml (3.7 KB) Is the low octave + fuzz to get the octave riff sound he showed a couple minutes after the octavia.
He plays very dynamically, so to get a similar clean sound you gotta play softer, and the bite comes with increased intensity. I also noticed that switching between different pickups on my guitar altered the tone very drastically, and not all positions were appropriate to get similar tones, so Iād recommend single coil (or coil split) and in some instances either a bright neck hb or a lower output bridge hb.
For reference, Iām using a Custom 24 with 5-way blade switch, and the only āusefulā positions for these sounds on my guitar were 4 (coil-split neck + coil-split bridge), 5 (neck humbucker) for leads and fuzzy stuff, 1 (bridge humbucker) with volume slightly rolled back for OD leads. I guess a neck single coil would sound even better if you have that option.
(extra stuff - archetype rabea):
Iāve found a video where Rabea tried to make a Timmons sound with his own plugin, and I really like this tone, so Iām also uploading it here just in case anyone with Archetype Rabea want to give it a try.
andy timmons acc to rabea.xml (7.1 KB)
I made some tweaks with EQ and delay to my taste (to use at live gigs, that often happen to take my signal in mono):
crunch timmons.xml (7.1 KB)
2 Likes
Disclaimer: I know none of these presets are perfect, but Iām confident they will serve as a good starting point to achieve the desired tones. Anyway , I had a lot of fun dialing in the tones for these presets, so at least I hope you have fun experimenting and playing with them as well. Enjoy!
I realize now that the dual delay could be recreated using a combination of the āpreā delay pedal on the pedalboard section and the delay on the ambience section.
I guess just by setting the 2 against 3 pattern using both pedals would result in something close enough to mimic his timeline configuration.