Tom Scholz Rockman Boston Tone

I am with you on this pursuit. I just watched guitarinteractives great overview of the pitchfuzz algo and am thinking it might get close as early on I could hear the basic distortion flavor. Add pitch to get the chorus and a little short delay and it might be the core. Might still have to play with an EQ and compressor. Tom’s Graphic band EQ was pretty extreme. If I recall he really boosted 400 and 800. I had a Boss OD20 which had a ‘Rockman’ model but it was garbage. I used to own the X100. I think I will boilerplate Don’t Look Back as it has a lot of the tonal colors I like. Keep me posted and I will do the same. An elusive sound to be sure and 8 am feeding a Vox! So I have my work cut out for me! Gonna hitch a ride on the Eventide….

Ok – trying to match to ‘Don’t look back’. Far from perfect but actually I like the sound nonetheless.
First off here is my setup.
A. I don’t own a Les Paul. So closest I have is my SGish Wechter with SD trembuckers bridge and reverse ’59 in the neck. For the main opening riff I actually set my humbucker in parallel which seemed to add a little definition but overall used the series as it sounded better for the lead lines.
B. I did use my analog alien Joe Walsh Double Classic compressor at about 4:1 ratio into my Full Drive 2 set with just bit of clean boost into the preamp of my nighttrain G2.
C. I ran the H9 as ‘post’ which I have in my FX loop with settings shown. I created the expression to toggle for the bridge neck humbucker darker sound. What I discovered is that my normal splash of reverb on my amp was too much and I really dialed it back to cleanup the definition.
I consider this a starting point. I am still thinking an EQ in there might get it closer
Let me know what you think. In my rig I do love the way the chords sustain and tail off.

Took the fulltone out of the path. Upped the preamp gain and increased the top fuzz to 42. Voices to 1.0 pitch to -10 and + 10 and turned off delay 2. Better.

Seems pitchfuzz could do what this does – at least series option. https://www.oldbloodnoise.com/pedals/excess-distortion-chorusdelay.

Hey there good people. I thought I’d revive this thread since I’m new to the H-9 and also trying to nail that signature Boston tone & harmonies too.

Any help with settings or presets would be much appreciated.

Thanks

I play in a Boston tribute band and I use a pretty simple set-up to replicate Scholz’s tone.

A Dunlop Q-zone pedal for the “parked wah tone” gets me the rhythm guitar tone. It works well because I can blend the wet-dry signal in order to not have the effect becoming too overwhelming.

For the harmonized solo parts, I use an Eventide H9 with pre-programmed settings in a loop that I activate w/a momentary looper pedal. I apologize for not sharing the exact details of the settings. I need to keep things somewhat ambiguous. I hope you understand.