Vito Bratta

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Vito Bratta is one of my favs from back in the day. I was also a big ADA fan back in the day. I used a full ADA bass rig, and guitar rig including ADA power amps and cabs. I used the ADA B200S power amp and four ADA 2x12 splitstacks with my Ultra until I went FRFR. I sold most of it over the last few years...the only piece left is my last MP-2 with noise mod.

Here is the last incarnation of my full ADA rack for guitar....and yes, you can get many of the '80s and early 90s tones with them IME.

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rsm":w5ezwnip said:
Vito Bratta is one of my favs from back in the day. I was also a big ADA fan back in the day. I used a full ADA bass rig, and guitar rig including ADA power amps and cabs. I used the ADA B200S power amp and four ADA 2x12 splitstacks with my Ultra until I went FRFR. I sold most of it over the last few years...the only piece left is my last MP-2 with noise mod.

Here is the last incarnation of my full ADA rack for guitar....and yes, you can get many of the '80s and early 90s tones with them IME.

ADA-Main-Rack.jpg
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Dude why dont you see if these setting get you close, that is if Nuno Kept his settings the same as the recording preset Wagener had...Then they should be close to the White Lion settings...Maybe, Hopefully... :lol: :LOL:
 
According to that peice of paper, there is no difference in the setting for Nuno's main and clean tones??

I assume the "alternate" tone is a solo tone (more bass and treble)?
 
reverymike":2hmj1rkq said:
According to that peice of paper, there is no difference in the setting for Nuno's main and clean tones??

I assume the "alternate" tone is a solo tone (more bass and treble)?
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i would believe the alternate tone is the crunch tone with the volume rolled back on the guitar, and the main tone is the lead tone with a boost out front IMHO
 
Bratta wrote some GREAT guitar solos... Wait and Little Fighter solos are my favorite ones. Regarding the tone, here's my attempt on the Wait solo with a v-amp pro. Few mistakes here and there:

 
Jakem":23hxlj4p said:
Bratta wrote some GREAT guitar solos... Wait and Little Fighter solos are my favorite ones. Regarding the tone, here's my attempt on the Wait solo with a v-amp pro. Few mistakes here and there:

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Little Fighter is my fave WL tune, great solo, interesting rhythm parts too. Deceptively tricky.
 
ive owned an MP1 before. i have still never understood how people get recordings like extreme's CD out of them. it just amazes me...because the tones i was pulling were anything but :confused:
 
glpg80":3dtz7ft4 said:
ive owned an MP1 before. i have still never understood how people get recordings like extreme's CD out of them. it just amazes me...because the tones i was pulling were anything but :confused:
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+1

My friend had an MP-1 back when we were in school and i borrowed it for a bit. I just couldn't get a tone out of that thing that sounded any good. It's weird... Again i was sat there scratching my head thinking, how the hell did Nuno and Vito get those tones from this thing? :confused:

Maybe there's a trick to dialling it in, and could be fussy about the poweramps that it is used with.
 
I don't know -- I used a MP-1 back in 91-93, and I thought the tones were really good. I had a tone very much like Nuno's or Vito's -- and I used a Carvin FET 450 power amp.
 
I tried 4 times.....embed Failz. :confused:

Love the guitar & bass toan. :lol: :LOL:
 
Sometimes they add that "&featured"
on the end of the youtube number.....not sure why. Just have to delete that part of the number.

Only took me 2 months to figure it out! :lol: :LOL:
 
reverymike":2q03ntjw said:
According to that peice of paper, there is no difference in the setting for Nuno's main and clean tones??

I assume the "alternate" tone is a solo tone (more bass and treble)?
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"Voice" :)
T.C = Tube clean
T.D = Tube drive.
 
I will say, I too had trouble getting tones when I used only the preamp. The ADA rigs were a system: Power Amp and Speakers made the factory presets sound close.

Nuno's and other preset sheets have been floating around for years...I may have tried them (I'm sure I did) but I can't recall that they sounded right...my guess is they didn't or I'd have remembered them! :D

I think some of the preset notes have to do with the preamp voicing used. For me, the MP-1 came alive with the MQ-1, the MP-2 was/is a PITA to dial in but it did not need the MQ-1 due to the added outbound GEQ stage.
 
rsm":2ucuyjj7 said:
I will say, I too had trouble getting tones when I used only the preamp. The ADA rigs were a system: Power Amp and Speakers made the factory presets sound close.

Nuno's and other preset sheets have been floating around for years...I may have tried them (I'm sure I did) but I can't recall that they sounded right...my guess is they didn't or I'd have remembered them! :D

I think some of the preset notes have to do with the preamp voicing used. For me, the MP-1 came alive with the MQ-1, the MP-2 was/is a PITA to dial in but it did not need the MQ-1 due to the added outbound GEQ stage.
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I ran mine into a Amp Head....cant remember what it was. Nothing great...maybe a Crate Blue Voodoo? But With tweaking the amp eq and the MP1......I was getting Vito tone out of it. Pretty damn close for sure! :thumbsup:
 
I love my mp-1 and I get some great tones out of it, at least tones I'm plenty happy with. I'm not into trying to nail anybodies tone in particular. I play covers and I need plenty of versatility so the midi switching comes in handy. I run it in an a/b/y rig with a mesa triaxis and it pretty much stays on Y. I use a Fryette 2502 power amp. I about as happy with my tone as I have ever been and I've got plenty of versatility between the two preamps and the combination of the two. The triaxis has more low end umph. The mp-1 is able to give singing sustain without getting trebley of fizzy sounding. Weird rig I know but I'm happy with it and I like having something a little different. Now I just wish I had more skills.
 
Mudder":3ilqrrpa said:
Jakem":3ilqrrpa said:
Bratta wrote some GREAT guitar solos... Wait and Little Fighter solos are my favorite ones. Regarding the tone, here's my attempt on the Wait solo with a v-amp pro. Few mistakes here and there:

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Little Fighter is my fave WL tune, great solo, interesting rhythm parts too. Deceptively tricky.
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+1 on "Little Fighter"...it's one of my top 5 favorite guitar solo's of that era.
 
reverymike":3gv7nwep said:
I never really agreed with the Van Halen comparison either. Vito was very mapped out and intentional, where as Eddie was much more off the cuff and spontaneous.
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That about nails it !!! Although being compared to VH can't be bad.
+100 on Little Fighter !!! Love to crank that tune !!
 
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