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@@Badlyer I highly recommend the Neural DSP amp sims! There are so many out there that can get the job done. I personally get most of my guitar tone from the bass. Without the bass, the guitar sounds pretty flat.

@caxpertheunfriendlyghost I've never heard of it but it's something I can look into!

@@HollowHeart-Studio Cool, hope it grabs your interest!

@caxpertheunfriendlyghost short answer to your question is yes. Yes, I can make that kind of music and have songs that are that style with shreddage haha. I'm not very good at writing like other people or explaining how to come up with riffs, but I can show the process of plugging in the notes and editing the midi. Then share the files, of course. My heaviest music was just the easiest to get off my plate first.

Thank you!

@@noahstrasmann1557 Big Thornhill fan here. I wish I could figure out more of their tracks but their style is so different than what I'd normally play haha

Downtuning helps a ton haha

@xBradRame Yes I've been writing, producing, singing, playing guitar, drumming, composing and video editing for a while now :)

@@HollowHeart-Studio daym! I'm almost on that level but getting old now so I've been doing less and less. Inspiring to see though

@@xBradRame I hear you! I have been feeling that a lot the past few years. Especially doing everything by myself. I wrote this song a few years ago and kind of lost the drive to finish anything for a while. I also get stuck in that loop of always finding something I could do better. 2 things changed my mind.. 1. an unreleased track will never have the chance to be good. 2. there will always be mistakes or something to critique, but you'll never get better if you never commit.

@rainoun_music thank you! I've really gotten the hang of mirroring how I play guitar and I've been trying to branch out to learning how to mirror more intricate guitar playing.

@@btssuga5617 100%

@@HollowHeart-Studio you can share midi files

@btssuga5617 the first track actually got scrapped because it was written before I figured out how to use shreddage but I'll consider bringing it back for a video and sharing the midi. 2nd is a collab in waiting on the vocalist to finish tracking. Once I have anything out, yes absolutely. I can't put out midi for works in progress :(

@@HollowHeart-Studio yeah great i wish you would share how to use Shreddage

@@btssuga5617 I have walk-throughs on my channel, brother. Feel free to check them out!

@@nicolaslima3724 thank you! Shreddage hydra.

Thank you so much! I also really appreciate the feedback. The vocal volume has been quite a debate back and forth behind the scenes, and I'll keep experimenting per song. I tend to just go with what the singer of a project wants because I swear it's 50/50 on what people consider the sweet spot haha.

@Finfire76 it's a template in the photo editing software I use, and the thought of seriously using it cracked me up. All hail the Beast

@@HollowHeart-Studio true 🥹

@jonl.b7168 th-cam.com/video/v8I5UJmnPJM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=vKxpK-kV8uz6RUkQ I recommend following this video. It's easier than me trying to explain

@@HollowHeart-Studio Thanks! The issue was a really weird bug. I only had to change the default keyswitch to something else, and then it magically works.

@jonl.b7168 yeah tbh I have to fiddle with it a lot to get it to work correctly. I have to adjust the timing of the first note and 2nd note separately until I get what I want. I always record the output once I have it how I want because sometimes it will glitch and not play the slide. So, recording the output aliviates that if you can get at least 2 take of it sounding how you want. I always dread slides when I come back to writing guitar parts haha

@@HollowHeart-Studio Good idea! The guitar sounds great though so I'm really happy with it. Just infuriating to mess around for so long and have no idea what's wrong! 😆

For this one I used toneforge Misha

I don't have the stratus, but it's the same instrument samples and sounds without a lot of features. You don't have access to notes above the 12th fret, and I believe you don't get all the articulations, but I can't recall which ones. I'm sure the site says exactly. I can confirm it's the same samples, though.

Thank you! GGD Matt Halpern signature with external processing.

Thank you for watching!

th-cam.com/video/c8ikmbaUzQ8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=KcRnHhQDkrECGZ26 this is my go to guitar tone currently. A lot of the sound comes from mixing the guitar with the other instruments. It doesn't sound too great by itself :)

No need to pay me, brother. My most recent video is walking through my guitar tone. This video shows you how to setup hydra like I do. th-cam.com/video/DTU-CCAfKII/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CVjs93LB2MzrsAkq You'd need to compose and program similar to get the exact sound but that comes with practice. Most of my guitar tone actually comes from everything else in the mix. I am fully booked on ghost writing and mixing at the moment.

Thank you! I just make sure it's not clipping coming out of kontakt and most of the velocities are at 90 max.

I'd love to take a look and give some thoughts. I'm running a really underpowered machine so I'm not sure how much help I'd be haha. Shoot me an email and I'll take a look sometime soon. I'm pretty busy these next few weeks but I'd love to take a look at what you have. Hollowheartstudio@gmail.com

Thank you! Getgood drums with Matt's signature kit. I think it was one of the first kits they put out. I use a cheap ekit to trigger the samples and it works great

In the first page of shreddage there's little guitar icons that light up when you click them. If you click 2 of them, it will be double tracked with 1 midi track. I normally pick guitar 1 and 4. If you've done that but something is up with the routing or your midi track, unfortunately I don't know anything about Cubase. So I couldn't say for sure.

Nooooo hahahaha don't quit. The videos I make just have throwaway riffs tbh. You can absolutely do better than this!

@@HollowHeart-Studio Damn, straight up told him he got destroyed by throwaway riffs ... That's strike 3 LMAO! ... ( but seriously, you better not give up Jason... If I can't quit neither can you, us 'metalhead + computer nerd hybrids' are in this together as a dying breed <3 )

@SadTown99 LMAO unintentionally killing with kindness. For real though, we are always our own worst critics ❤️. Even people we consider to be masters of their craft still feel insignificant to others. Do what you do to the best of your ability, release it, and continue to grow. Don't be like me lol..I have a folder full of tracks I don't consider good enough, but when I was 18-20 I would have only dreamed of writing those tracks. In 5 years, I'll probably think the things I've wrote recently aren't that good. Hell, even the stuff I started a year or two ago and am wrapping up now don't feel like they're up to par for me. We can keep it to ourselves and feel like we're insignificant, or we can do our best in the moment. Always do it for yourself :)

I'm guessing you're using shreddage 3.5 rather than 3.0. I know 3.5 looks different but I don't know anything about it. I instantly disliked the update, so I only use the prior version

Thank you! This is a real song I'm currently working on. I am a criminal, so the bass is just low guitar for the tone but I will track drums on my Ekit like I normally do once I have the whole thing done :) This is the last one in my little collection of tracks I've been writing. I'm hoping to finish recording vocals for the others while I get this one written. A year since my last song is way too long!

Thank you! This is the last instrumental I'm working on for a collection of singles I want to put out.

Of course! I tried doing a more in depth video with a voice over. Unfortunately, mental health is a bit rough right now. I just couldn't get myself through the script. So I compromised and made this. Always better to do our best even if it's not what we planned :) maybe once I understand tone a bit more I can do a more tutorial type video haha

Are you talking about the midi map I made for hydra? The thing that lists out all the articulations for me?

@@HollowHeart-Studio yea that. When it comes to using shreddage , I always forget what switches does what, especially when it comes to programming the midi.

@NathanDarkson984 yes, I can absolutely share it. Normally I don't because people who don't use reaper won't be able to use it and I'm not sure if everyone's settings are the same as mine. If it works, great! If it doesn't work, my brain is too smooth to help anyone figure out why it doesn't haha. Essentially all I did was open the manual, my midi map and kontakt. I'd press a note on my midi chart that the manual said should be an articulation and looked at the keyboard in kontakt to see if it was showing the correct key being pressed. If it was correct, I just labeled that note. If it's not correct, it's probably up or down an octave. If you're not familiar with how to make a custom midi chart, I know there's tons of reaper tutorials that could probably explain it much quicker and with visual aid haha. I'd upload my midi chart now but I won't have access to my pc for a bit unfortunately

I don't use presets for anything. I'm pretty sure the amp sim on this one was the otto audio 11 11 amp though.

Thank you so much!

I bought reaper about 11 years ago but I believe it was called personal/small business at the time. I've only updated it maybe 2 times since I bought it lol

No preset. I use the shreddage di and process it with external plugins like I would a real guitar.

oh thanks :0 what is the shreddage di? Sorry i just download the plugin and the INIT S3 hydra sound way differnt and chipper that what i see on youtube @@HollowHeart-Studio

@prodGABAI just raw guitar sound brother. I think it default but I bought shreddage 3 hydra the week it came out. So, it might be a little different for you.

Once the song is released, I'll provide the midi for it.

With shreddage, no. The way it's performed does match up with real guitarists where the peak of the wav hits a little after the beat. So I just leave it as is. With real guitar, I normally pull back to get the peak directly on the bar. I humanize the bass performance so it's sometimes a little late or early. For drums, I normally just play them on my eKit and quantize 90-95%. When I program drums for these videos, I don't waste the time making them sound more realistic. I only care about the bass and drums sounding more human in actual tracks I'm releasing. For shreddage leads, I do sometimes edit the midi to start a little early or release a little early. That way I can get a little more out of it. With my music, my rhythm playing and editing has always been very robotic.

@@HollowHeart-StudioI'll try to explain with real guitar. It might be obvious... On waveform. You need put very-very- very low begining of the your peak. That's tiny - is your pick atack. Pick atack must lay in beat - not peak. When you put peak in beat - you move your guitar after the click. Play simple linear riff with fifths intervals and 8 notes groupings. Then compare your 'piCk' atack on beat with 'peAk' on beat... Then >pick< atack before the beat. I hope you'll chose to play as third.

@user-gd4bd5ir7u I get what you're saying. That's how shreddage works by default, and I just let it be. With live guitar, I personally like the pick attack coming before the beat. You mentioned other styles of music having the timing be a bit ahead or behind. I personally don't have a preference or do anything one specific way. It's just to taste, honestly. There's not exactly a right or wrong way if you know what you're doing and it's intentional. I'm not sure if you're asking me my preference or telling me I need to do things differently haha. If you're asking me if I do anything to the midi to humanize timing, the answer is that I do very little to adjust the timing. When I edit real guitars, they sound like shreddage does by default. So, I only make minor adjustments to timing based on personal preference. I'm more concerned with velocities :)

@@HollowHeart-Studio I glad that that's there no misunderstanding. The worst thing might can be - letting someone give advice to ourselves. So I never tell anybody to do with only way.

I haven't recorded with a 6 string in ages, brother. I'd probably use the same tone I use for everything else but give the bass a little more mid lows if the guitar is tuned higher than drop B