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CHRIS ROSENAU
Chris Rosenau picked up the electric guitar as a teenager and has been playing ever since. For most of that time, Chris has been lucky enough to have a dedicated audience for his music. He’s played with a number of bands and musicians, including indie rock band Volcano Choir as well as Collections of Colonies of Bees. Throughout Chris’s career as a guitarist, he’s performed all over North America, Europe, and even Japan.
Chris is an avid fan of Zoom and regularly uses an H4n to document all his creative moments—from rehearsals to song ideas. Since the H4n has been an indispensible tool in Chris’s writing process, he had a fun time taking the G5n for a test drive to see all that he can do.
ADD THESE PATCHES TO THE PATCH POOL
- Sequi (For Direct Recording) - This is my re-imagining of guitar sound as if through an old 1990’s Electribe ES-1 Drum Machine…Sequencer blended with Slow Attach and TS Drive distortion.
- Sequi2 (For Direct Recording) - This is another sequencer-based effect, it’s a little bit different with a bit of Gold Drive distortion, adding compressor, and changing up the amp emulator.
- Rever (For Direct Recording) - I combined the Zoom’s Reverse Delay and Gold Drive to create a really nice, slow, open sound…playing to leave a lot of uninterrupted room for the effect to do its thing.
- Rever2 (For Direct Recording) - This is similar to “Rever”, but a slightly different reverse delay combined with the expression pedal.
- Shifty (For Direct Recording) - It uses a pretty intense distortion with a Pitch Shifter and expression pedal. It’s pretty wild, but I’m into it!
- PedalDeal (For Direct Recording) - This is great for creating and recreating a base delay loop to play over with just a little bit of compression and drive.
- Buzzo - The Melvins are one of my favorite bands. And while this doesn’t really sound like King Buzzo’s tone, it reminds me of it. Distortion, octave divider, and some delay.
- ReverPed - It’s a vamp on the reverse delay with expression pedal, with a way wider delay situation. It’s a great patch for creating atmosphere.
- Holder - I’ve built the patch around the Hold DLY effect, which lets me play something, kick the delay on, hold it so it acts like a loop, play a ruff, let go, and reset it.
- TremPunch - This is a non-traditional use of the Tremolo; they’re usually pretty weak and this is a strong one that acts like a loop or a metronome.
- Squared - This is the same effect as the TremPunch, but the Tremolo is actually squared off even more so it’s a more harsh sound, and I’ve introduced the really nice sounding Tape Echo.
- Faye's Tag - I really liked this Phaser, which I never play with. I slowed the Phase down a lot and put a nice distortion on it.
- Met - While it is very simple, I think it’s really interesting loopy-sounding patch. It’s just DYN DRIVE with the Tremolo set really slow and heavily square-waved out.
- Tromb (For Direct Recording) - This uses the Tremolo with distortion as a really nice, tight metronome/loop feel that you can play chords over, a drummer can play over, etc.