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I have task paralysis with damn near everything, and then option paralyisis, and then you add the pressure of my bandmates hearing the changes next practice? Hell of a triple threat

Either JST Rex Brown or JST HellRaizer are my absolute go-to's... and for the love of all that is metal. PLEASE stay with the bass and dont be like every lazy/uninspired guitarist content creator using midi bass for your shit.. This brief demo is ballsy as fuck without that crap..

Brother that ff8 balamb garden perked me up like a dog whistle

This guy gets it

I love making music. All the gear is just supposed not to get in my way

Imho: with almost limitless options and limited time, I guess it boils down to stick to what works for you and move to the next step. Although I am not yet doing audio production full time, I try limiting the time I spend in tweaking tones: instead I get a preset, spend some time tweak it to my taste and if I feel its just consuming too much time, move to the next step. Just me. I hope works for you too. Sometimes, if the options are just too overwhelming it helps to simply stop and move to the next step, ready or not.

When i first got a cheap interface and a bunch of amp sim plugins, it was overwhelming with the amount of options. I now use an orange micro amp for personal practice and an nux mg 30 modellers for live shows and making covers

Each of these amp sims, whether they be amplitube, all the way up to the top of the line fractal, all have a certain timbre specific to that product. I've been a EVH first album tone chaser for over 20 years and NONE of these sims have the right 440 khz midrange bite, a real dimed 4 hole plexi has. You can tweak these sims, change out your actual pickups and change IR's 'till doomsday and change EQ settings and None of them will give you that exact Ed tone because the underlying timbre of the sim can't generate the correct plexi tone. You gotta admit, with all this computer horsepower they should be able to duplicate that by 2024, right? Those that have played these real amps know what I mean. Great video. Rock on.

I’ve done so much less creative playing since I got a fucking modeler. That perfectly *modeled* my experience. I sold my Axe 3 today, the digital shackles are coming off.

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Thank.. its my dilema actualy.. i jist need to practice but alway bulit new sound.. arr

Dude you hit the nail right on the head with this video. I often will look at getting new gear and it takes me FOREVER because there’s just SO much nice gear out there today, not to mention vintage gear as well. It really does make me reconsider getting into these amp sims. I was just looking at buying a new amp and I figured instead of spending a couple grand I could spend a couple hundred on an interface and go to the races. But after watching this it makes me think that I should go with my original idea and go with a real tube amp that I know I’ll like after trying it in the store. Because I am definitely the type to look for hours and forget that I should just be playing instead. Very good video. Makes you open your eyes to the way things are now. It’s kind of sad really.

IRs are the worst with this-It can take hours finding that magical one that’s both fun to play but also serves your track! So enforcing limitations (and taking advantage of HP/LP filters) can very useful to your sanity! As long as the IR has focus and definition in the midrange and a little low end, I’m good to go. I’ll high-cut any harshness if needed. Yet another reason I love my Helix-I’m no longer concerned with trying to keep things raw, and instead focusing on what’s RIGHT.

I can make y’all tone chasers feel better by listening to the guitar tones in “knives and pens” by Black Veil Brides.

OH GOD YES! Recently, I had to downsize, and unfortunately I went from an awesome Orange amp with ONE tone KNOB to this digital crap. I wasted years "tweaking" these useless amp sim settings instead of playing. Plugins SUCK. I can't wait to stabilize my life again and just grab a simple old-school tube amp again that will prevent my ADD brain from getting lost in settings...

I actually learned something unexpected from your video. Setting a timer before I start...adds a sense of urgency (if there isn't one).

This is why I'll pick a preset and just create a riff, song, solo, etc. Then after I will tweak parameters. I mean, you're just recording a DI anyway. Plus, I'm gonna use other plug-ins to sweeten the guitar track.

I used Amplitube a lot but found myself going back to the same 2 model all the time so I decided to invest in some sims that each does only one thing but does it good. Amplitube does one thing well: it probably helps finding the amp you like. But actually this doesn't even matter as one can create great music with any amp. They all sound the same. It's all just esoterism...

Perhaps someone here can help me: I use STL Tones and have also tried AmpKnob. However, I keep noticing that there is too much bass in the standard setting. The cabs always have too much low end. What is the reason for this? I always have to cut up to 140 Hz to get a good sound.

The problem is its not ez im a musician not a foking pc nerd make all things ez its not that hard just put more hours into developing xizbsvzvq fuck the addons than making sure ur amps work tjan u only get left sound and u will never find out why cuz u suck at pc

Great video and solid points! I like to keep things simple as well!

simple

most amp sim tones sound good by them self but mix it into a song with multiple guitars other instruments youl find that most of them suck . so its up to you to find the ones that gel in a mix and then when your left with the few sounds that sound decent with multiple guitars and other instruments you wont waste any more time mucking the settings

I cant stand amp sims. They just dont do it. Theyre ok for demos but man they just dont even compare to a real amp and cab mic'd up. You can just fire up a sound and have it be great. You have to always screw with virtual mic positions and eqs. I can mic my amps and boom, good tone in 45 seconds, no fiddling trying to make it sound real because it is real.

2:15 “Life will find a way of reminding you that your time, is not infinite. Oh well, there’s always next weekend but didn’t you say that, last weekend?” Epic!

I think my favorite paid plugin is the Mammoth from Aurora DSP. For free, I’ve found really easy to dial in tones with the TSE BOD which is a simple Sansamp clone that does metal bass better than I expected

I'm using Mammoth by Aurora DSP because like you said, just works (and really good) That said, Parallax is rad, need to check Bogren at some point! Great video mate!

Fantastic videography man! And definitely agree with the story behind this video lol

It’s awesome to have a “why” video instead of the how. Can’t wait for more.

This video is art.

This has become a huge problem for me over the years. I've spent more time searching for tone than actually writing music. Thanks for the inspiration

What reaper theme is this? Pretty cool looking.

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Aaaah.... Thank you, Sir xx

No need for a loadbox to capture just the amp, just buy a DI box that can accept speaker level signals and your cab will be the load ;-)

Very nice. It would be interesting to hear A/B to see how closely the tone controls and mic movement match the real rig. Tonex does a good job of making it easy to to A/B after the matching is done.

Option paralysis is a real problem.

super true

I've more often than not found that presets do not sound like me. I like to get a sound on my Mesa for clean and dirty then add pedals on my board for specific flavors that I like to have for jamming. Modelers are great for recording since I never lived in a studio and hard wired recording is a God send, but I always need to adjust all the paramiters on presets to get what I want to sound like and then save them under my own custome titles. Have a tone in mind before you start up that device of plug in. It will help you get creative in the long run. Peace.

I like your voice

This video is the exact depiction of my life these last months… With two very young kids, I have very limited time to play and still spent 10% of the time playing and 90% of the time turning knobs in my DAW, blending IRs, auditioning profiles… The perfect tone I dial on Wednesday is utter trash on Friday and is reborn again on Sunday. I am caught in a negative spiral which completely killed my guitar passion. This video is really an eye opener. I have decided to delete 90% of my IRs collection and plugins. I am keeping only the essential ones and essential IR mixes. I am going to play more and fiddle less… Hopefully…

100% of the time I can tell when it’s not a real amp….without fail.

I think Neural DSP plugins are simple enough

I'm in the 'prefer simplicity' camp. At first I'm excited about all the options but quickly get frustrated I can't find 'the perfect one'. These days I just use one of my presets I like, build everything around it, then finish with all the messing around until I'm bored of it

Angus Young be like: hold my guitar. Btw, any idea how to keep things simple. I am new to this amp sims and perhaps you have suggestions which products to buy for dummies like me.

Great Video bro, it was me many years ago. Specially dealing with Impulse Responses until i really got tired of exploring unlimited effects and sounds that now days those plugin give us, and i bought a HUGHES KETTNER TUBEMEISTER 20 that can be connected direct to my audio interface and know that is my basic sound, i dont deal more with so much options and i just play the guitar now. So you really reminded me a lot of those old days moving digital knobs and the next day looking for a better sound that never came.

Using IRs with IR loaders instead of the plugins' own cabin simulations makes a difference like night and day for most plugins. If you boost your guitar with a real pedal, the results can be amazing with some plugins. You can try connecting it from the instrument input of your sound card or the line input with a di box.

what is that sim at 2:34?

we earing more your ``clic`` than the bass...

Is this really a problem with the amp sim tho? Or a time management issue? Lol