The complete patch book

The Rig Bible

One document for the whole board: the signal chain, the bedroom-lead reset, the six gain stacks, and the six house tones. Current as of the Thornicus + Tom Quayle build.

Board state: Thornicus octave fuzz IN · Xotic SP OUT · Tom Quayle Dual Fusion = lead voice · compressor = open wishlist (Dynamics)

The signal chain

Wet/dry: the Badger is the dry/main amp running front-of-amp drive; its loop feeds the time-based effects into the Mesa as the wet amp, kill-dry. Two amps, one dry and present, one all ambience.

Front Guitar→ Thornicus Fuzz→ Venus→ SD9→ Butter Machine→ AC+→ Tom Quayle→ Badger 18 front
Loop Badger send→ Mobius→ TimeLine→ BigSky→ Mesa Express 5:25 (wet, kill-dry)
Dry / main amp
Suhr Badger 18 Mk2Power Scaling · MOSFET boost · buffered loop
Wet amp
Mesa Express 5:25fed via front input · kill-dry · volume = ambience level
Fuzz (front)
Suhr Thornicusdual: straight fuzz + octave fuzz
Lead voice
Wampler Tom Quayle Dual FusionEuphoria(Vintage) + Paisley(Modern) channels
Drive chain
Venus · SD9 · Butter · AC+tube-driver · mid-scoop · British · transparent
Loop FX
Mobius → TimeLine → BigSkyall wet mix MAX · level set by Mesa volume
Guitars
Suhr Black Burst (HH) · Modern · Classic S · PRS Custom 24
Wishlist
Compressor w/ parallel blendSP replacement · Cali76 · for bedroom sustain

The bedroom-lead reset

Low-volume leads die from three things: no power-tube saturation, Fletcher-Munson thinness, no speaker-driven sustain. This rebuilds the tone in order so each stage does its job. Start by bypassing everything, killing the wet (Mesa to zero), Badger EQ to noon.

Troubleshooting as you dial

FizzyDrive below Power · back the TQ gain off first
Thin / harshmore amp Mid · roll pedal Tone back · add wet bloom
Muddycut amp Bass further · drop delay repeats
Leads don't cutMid up · add the MOSFET boost or TQ Ch B lift
No sustainDrive just above Power · longer reverb decay · (a compressor fixes this properly)
Since the SP is gone: sustain now comes from amp Power-Scaling squash (Drive just above Power), the Tom Quayle's own compression, and the wet bloom — not from a compressor. It works, but a compressor with a parallel blend (Cali76) is the genuine next buy to restore effortless bedroom sustain.

The gain stacks

Six front-of-amp recipes. Five Tom-Quayle-led lead voices plus the Thornicus octave fuzz as a switch-to texture. Amp + wet stay as the reset; switching stack = re-dialling the dirt only. Clock positions = knob face (7:00 min · 12:00 noon · 5:00 max).

The house tones

The six ScottG voices — full patch settings across the whole rig. "Standard Issue" is the leave-on default; the other five are holidays from it. Note: these were written with the SP in the chain; where one calls for the SP, sub the Tom Quayle's compression + amp squash, or the compressor when it arrives.