Th-U Overloud, Early Ty Tabor King's X tone

[Ricardo J. Rivera-Rodríguez]

I'm trying to recreate Ty Tabor's tone from the first 3 to 4 King's X records using the Lab5 emulator in TH-U without much success.  I have seen settings in videos but they are from the L7 with Alexis multiband eq.  Does anyone know where to get a preset with that tone?

[bats brew]

ty did a LOT to make that sound.

you wont find it in a preset.

 

part of his tone, maybe a large part, was his using the fender elite strat, that had  built-in active electronics that consist of TBX treble expander and MBX midrange booster circuits featuring a preamp that provides up to 12dB of gain.

he'd max out those boosts.

if you do not START your chain with something like this, you'll never get there.

it's the combo of those mid boosts, with the boosts available in the L5, that makes that tone happen.

here's the amp setup:

Lab Series L5 head (channel 2, Lo input, Bright: off, Volume: 9, Bass: 6, Frequency: 3.2kHz, Midrange: +2.5, Treble: 8.5, Multifilter: 6, Reverb: 1, Compressor: off, Master Volume: 5.5) [*Lab Series controls are marked from 1 to 9, so in these examples 1 is the same as a normal 0 setting and 9 would normally be 10; the midrange is cut/boost from -4 to +4], Crown MT600 power amp, two Peavey 4x12 cabinets with Celestion G12K-85 speakers