"I've also built a pedal board specifically for this recording" cut to shot of Dan with 20K worth of guitar equipment struggling to find room to put down cup of tea .. " right we are getting there" 🤣🤣
I tallied up Dan's "home studio" gear in a spreadsheet. Thus far, he went just north of $10K USD in gear, which does not include the Gig Rig G2 and pedals populating his pedalboard in the second half. I only tallied the Kingsley Page and Audio Kitchen The Big Trees guitar preamp pedals from the previous video into the picture And I am not suffering with pea-green envy at all looing at those amazing Focal Shape 50 nearfield monitors sitting in his studio room. Nope, I am not GASing for them at all... (full disclosure: I am totally GAS'ing for them something terrible...) This series makes my < $1500 AKG C214 LDC and Digitech ValveFX preamp >> Focusrite 18i8 >> Reaper DAW based home studio look so bloody shabby... oh, the humanity... (wink) =D
first lesson of IRs: get an IR for the cab with the mic in a 'good' position.. and stick with it. All the moving and EQing can get you crazy if you just want to play. Accept that there is a 'hidden' sound engineer who says 'the cab is mic'd up fine', and you only have your amp + your fingers to control the sound :).
Hi Dan! I wanted to pass on a trick I picked up from Gaz Williams of Sonic State for working with IRs. Having used IRs for several years, I still cant get past the 2 dimensional quality of the sound. To help alleviate this, once you have recorded your guitar part, simply toss a 57 (or whatever you have handy) in front of your studio monitor and rerecord the guitar part as though your monitor was a guitar cabinet. Obviously be careful to not have monitoring turned on for the track you are recording to or you will get a painful blast of feedback. Once you have rerecorded the track and checked it for phase it can be mixed in with the original guitar track to add back some of that missing 3rd dimension. Even when recorded at fairly low (neighbor friendly) levels this can make a big difference. Great video and I cant wait to hear the record! Thanks and stay safe!
Dan, I'd encourage you to stay the course. In the same way that you are a subject matter expert with all things pedal, your learnings here benefit an entire community of musicians who are struggling with these issues. Thanks for all your hard work!
reverb > gain. a well kept secret! Kevin Parker has done this from day one and he’s got just about the best ears in the biz. fantastic vid Dan! love to see you out of your comfort zone and learning. it’s very inspiring
Daniel, you SOB!! On yesterday’s Q&A, you managed our expectations about today’s VLOG production quality. Not expecting much, I tuned in today to a flawless preso!! Absolutely great content!...We are on to you now, Mr. Steinhardt. Well played.
Dan, the look and sound quality of your vlog has certainly come a long way! It's great to see visually how this one looks. Also loving this journey your on its fascinating seeing you gents tackle this from your different perspectives.
Of course......still play through your gear for your performance, but send a clean DI in to the box........use the track as a safeguard if you must or as a second option to see what’s possible as an engineer for yourself. The other really nice thing is if you’re off the beat, you can edit the direct audio and stretch it or shrink it so the transients line up on the beat. Give it a shot!.......it’s hard to go back once you experience the possibilities. Rock on buddy!......love the show!!!!
I'm not sure how Dan did this, but the production quality of this episode is off the charts. Without question the best sounding TPS show ever. Visuals are exemplary. It's like he put in 13-15 hours working his fingers to the bone to make this vlog.
Fantastic episode Dan, but would have loved it to be longer! You're achieving fantastic things, and steep learning curves are the most rewarding. Already loving the song, those harmonised guitar lines are lush! Keep on keeping on :)
That sound for the breakdown is amazing, Dan. Nice touch there. Also, those harmonies! Mixing different modulation effect on the different parts is genius. Really helps them smear across the stereo field but also retain their own character. Love it, mate. Big ups from Down Under!
Thank you for all the effort, Dan. Great job! What I find interesting in both vlogs is the different goals. Dan is working towards an EP and Mick is working towards a demo.
Hi Dan, Excellent VLOG 👍👍👍. I love the Track so far, particularly the Guitar Harmonies, just Brilliant! I am enjoying watching your journey with IR's and Tech in general, I wouldn't have known where to start! Take care mate ♥️👍. Melbourne, Australia.
Really took the end of the world for a TPS episode on IRs 😂 in all seriousness though, this is incredibly helpful, especially now. Thank you guys for continuing the inspiration through all this, it's appreciated by us all. Can't wait to see more unfold
9:52 "the weak link is me" Know exactly how you feel. I know the feeling of stting at home on my own with kit and not knowing how to do something. Spend so much time learning that I forget about playing,which is the real reason I'm doing it.
I love the new ownhammer IRs, l have a Strymon Iridium and use it as a IR loader with my tube amps and a suhr reactive load. The ownhammer IRs in there (and in the strymon manager) are the best I've ever heared for low to mid gain sounds. Also, the mesa IRs in the two notes software are amazing, as rebea pointed out. Great blog!!! Love the show!
Great stuff Dan. I'm delving into the world of home recording myself since the lockdown and it's really inspiring to see you powering through, even when things get tough. Keep going - it sounds great. That reverb into drive sound is epic!
Hey Dan! Thank you for your amazing efforts to help us all find great sounds at home! One thing I've tried is adding a compressor plugin before my IR loader to get some of that feel back that's lost between the amp, reactive load, and interface.
Props to you man. It took me 8 months to get my first song recorded and mixed by myself (as a hobbyist). It's a huge undertaking, but worth it. Once you get the first one done, the rest becomes much more natural and it gets easier. I just finished recording guitars for my band's album, and it was much more of a breeze.
“I’ve also built a pedalboard”...(insert pedal table!!) - l love it! Really looking forward to more videos and possibly a lessons learned wrap up at the end. Stay safe, Dan!!
Hey Dan! It’s a massive learning curve recording songs by yourself and good on you to you to put it on a vlog. One thing I’ve learnt on the engineer then performance thing is to divide up the work flow. Eg work on sounds and other technical things. Have a break. Then go and do the recording after the break. It takes longer, but I find I give a better performance that way as the break gives you a chance to change your mindset.
Finally! Reality. Love your show, great information as always and will help while working in my home studio. Revv D20 with torpedo cab built in on it's way.
That Pedal Show - Dan, I was pleasantly surprised to see you put reverb ahead of fuzz and overdrive. It's a magnificent sound, is it not? You have dipped your toe in shoegaze waters.
The little Orange cab (8"?) sounded sweet. Seeing Dan surrounded by his board, switcher, power supply, addition pedals strewn around, cabling, amps, load box and vintage tele, orange cab... made me smile
Sounds good. I've been using a loadbox and IR's for a while now...really works well. It never sounds exactly like my amp and cab in room, but I have tons of options with different cabs...more than I could fit in my house! You could also split signal with one going D.I. so you can re-amp later, if needed. I usually use amp with drive pedals or clean into DAW and add all effects in DAW program. Makes adjusting in mix way easier. Always enjoy "That Pedal Show" videos.
I strongly Identify with something Dan is struggling with. I am both a musician and an audio engineer, and I find that they are completely separate brain spaces. Even though I have the equipment, knowledge, and skill to engineer my own recordings, I always prefer to hand that duty over to someone else so I can focus on the performance and nothing else. However that's not always a luxury that I or many other folks have. What works for me is to set aside separate blocks of time. I'll take a week and just get a session template for the project together, and dial in various sounds that fit what I am looking for, save those as presets that I can recall later. I don't worry about writing or performance at all during this time, just getting things dialed in. Then I take a few days off and come back to write and record my parts. It's much easier when you have a palate of sounds ready to go and easily tweaked on the fly, allowing you to focus on the music and be creative.
I struggled hard with IR’s for all the same reasons Dan mentions. It’s like anything else, takes time and experimentation. You eventually begin to understand what you like and why you like it and it begins to get easier. I don’t live in a place I can turn amps up, so I *had* to figure this out if I was going to regain joy in my guitar sound.
Dan, we really need a home studio tour so we know what monitors and equipment you are using other that that MASSIVE pedal chain LOL!! Thank's for being an awesome human being and helping us through these times of trouble!
i really love that series, it's really interesting! I'm basically at the same point, even tho i recorded and produced for ten years, it was almost ten years ago and back then we used real microphones, bad preamps and bad interface, loads of cracked software and absolutely not enough sleep to produce "pro" sounding stuff! When i got back to guitars in late 2018, not only i thought it was a mistake because now almost all my savings are gone but also when i heard about IRs i was AMAZED !!! i'm really late to the party with this but people don't even realise how much this is a game changer, for the price of a few IRs, a load box and or a torpedo cab etc, you can have so much more quality than you would have for the same price with mics and preamps. So now i'm going back to learning, the tutorials on youtube are WAY better than in the early 2007 when i wanted to get a good mix down. Anyway i can't wait to hear you EPs that's gonna be a great motivation a great recording! thank you so much for your work guys, it's really a good motivation!
Your comment "The weak link in the chain is me"... I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way! The challenge of trying to be the "engineer" as well as the musician is tough...
So I've been working with the Two Notes Torpedo Studio for the last few months now and wanted to add an additional point. So when you're recording normally, you get the exact tone that you want out of the amp, and you mic it in such a way to reproduce that sound as close as possible on the recording. That gets flipped around with the IR setup. You have to pic the cab and set the mics the way you would think they sound best, then set up your amp to sound the best with that mic configuration. The hardest thing is trying to figure out what to change when it's not sounding the way you want it to. The best thing and the worst thing about the IR setup is how much versatility you have in your sound.
Sounds pretty good there Dan. Another thing you can do that people miss- when you’ve done the tracking, turn off the IRS again, send the separate tracks to someone like me with a live room and lots of cabs and mics- and run them back out through real cabs at leisure!
I love your monitor stands..! I was just thinking about getting monitor stands, finally after 10 years, the other day and maybe you have discovered the truth Dan.
I just bought a Revv D20 amp with built in Two Notes. The main use is intended to be home studio recording & practice amp/looping. Interesting to hear what Dan an Rabea have to say.
Wicked sound having a reverb into drives, nice one Dan!! Ad a wodka bottle to the monitorstands please, euh right after you have introduced the Mini bar fuzz pedal to the misses. She will not suspect a thing, i promise!! Grtz!
Loving these Dan. Really interesting to hear guitar tones specifically for a recording. At first when I heard the SM57 I thought ‘oh no all the bottom end has gone’. But then I imagined it in the mix with bass and drums and all of a sudden it seemed to fit!
Great episode! But IRs aside, let's please have some love for the Moonphaser! I don't think they're made anymore but I've had mine since 2010. It is so crisp and totally usable at all settings, love it to bits!
loving these videos while everyone's stuck at home. And not for nothing, but I'd probably listen to a double album of Dan just messing around with the red panda tensor
Oh, how I hate TH-cam comment advice, but here it is anyway. Taking a page from your Pedal Jams/ Pick&Mix book, I have found a helpful way to deal with IR abundance paralysis. I do with IRs what you guys do with pedals and learn them totally separately from the creative process... I have dedicated 'learn tones' time apart from writing and recording... I 'pracitce IRs'. If it is a thing by itself it is fun exploration... if it is part of trying to capture inspiration like putting a mic in front of a speaker, it is torture... for me at least. Hope that helps or at least encourages. Appreciate you both sharing this process.
On the other hand, Dan is to be an AWESOME producer as he goes down his recording journey. He really understands what all that stuff does, as opposed to someone with loads of cash that buys equipment because they think it will magically solve their problems. Nonetheless, @Padraig Burke I still think that was hilarious! Sorry Dan. Love you and everything you've taught me. Carry on mate.
Idea for a future episode that I'm curious about: Two identical amps into different cabs with different speakers or two different amps into identical cabs?
Dan great info on IR's and seeing your experience using them. But, why hasn't anyone mentioned how COOL is the new progress bar with the sections marked out on it! The is the first video where I have seen that. Excellent job guys. You have always done a great job including great details in the notes section with time stamps but now this new addition is awesome.
Redwirez mixIR3 and lot of Celestion IRs will get get you many hours of joy and great sounds. If you stick to Celestion IRs, they will all be in phase and work beautifully ;-) You can mix up to 4 cabs at a time.
Dang, Dan, I love the three part harmony in the chorus. I maintain that I hear the influence of LRB from First Under the Wire. Sooooo good! You left me wanting more!
I recently picked up a Two Notes CAB M and use a Bearfoot FX Dyna Red Distortion (Marshall AIAB) as the pre-amp. While amp-in-a-box pedals aren't necessarily a pre-amp, this has worked great with the gain down below 9 o'clock. I need to try my Emerald Green (Vox AIAB) too! It's been an amazing addition to the gear! While I haven't recorded with it, it's been much easier to play with backing tracks (using the aux in so far). The lessons I subscribed to offers a back track for each lesson to practice over so the quiet playing has also been a relief for my girlfriend :). Bluetooth connectivity is amazing for software edits and I really love the mic options for fine tuning of the sound. Really excited to see how your EP turns out Dan! Really love the harmonies and the reverb into fuzz tone!
I have many IR loaders including some of the mentioned here, but my first choice is the IR's in the free version of IK Amplitube for clean tones. The Cab section is completely free, very flexible, and sounds really good.
I love the fact that Dan’s monitors are each mounted on three wine bottles. I can’t remember reading that particular tip in Sound On Sound magazine! 😂🍷🍷🍷
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"I've also built a pedal board specifically for this recording" cut to shot of Dan with 20K worth of guitar equipment struggling to find room to put down cup of tea .. " right we are getting there" 🤣🤣
Padraig Burke 😂😂😂
That's exactly what I was thinking! 🤣😂
That gave me a good laugh too. The cut to the shot where he is sitting there with a mountain of pedals was perfect.
Well, it’s still “that pedal show,” after all! Haha.
I tallied up Dan's "home studio" gear in a spreadsheet. Thus far, he went just north of $10K USD in gear, which does not include the Gig Rig G2 and pedals populating his pedalboard in the second half. I only tallied the Kingsley Page and Audio Kitchen The Big Trees guitar preamp pedals from the previous video into the picture
And I am not suffering with pea-green envy at all looing at those amazing Focal Shape 50 nearfield monitors sitting in his studio room. Nope, I am not GASing for them at all... (full disclosure: I am totally GAS'ing for them something terrible...)
This series makes my < $1500 AKG C214 LDC and Digitech ValveFX preamp >> Focusrite 18i8 >> Reaper DAW based home studio look so bloody shabby... oh, the humanity... (wink) =D
I've also built a pedalboard specifically for this recording *cut to NASA ground control console*
Alan Angel Epic!👍🏼🤣🤣
Ahahahaha you are so right :)
Yes!
No kidding. The sight of all those pedals gave me a headache.
Dan: I've been talking to Rabea about the dos and don'ts of IRs.
Auto Captions: I've been talking to a beer about the dos and don'ts of my arse.
😂
Hahahahhahaha!!!!!
first lesson of IRs: get an IR for the cab with the mic in a 'good' position.. and stick with it. All the moving and EQing can get you crazy if you just want to play. Accept that there is a 'hidden' sound engineer who says 'the cab is mic'd up fine', and you only have your amp + your fingers to control the sound :).
Yep, "option paralysis" is something the Stones, Pink Floyd, Rush, etc., never really suffered in their early years!
Hi Dan! I wanted to pass on a trick I picked up from Gaz Williams of Sonic State for working with IRs. Having used IRs for several years, I still cant get past the 2 dimensional quality of the sound. To help alleviate this, once you have recorded your guitar part, simply toss a 57 (or whatever you have handy) in front of your studio monitor and rerecord the guitar part as though your monitor was a guitar cabinet. Obviously be careful to not have monitoring turned on for the track you are recording to or you will get a painful blast of feedback. Once you have rerecorded the track and checked it for phase it can be mixed in with the original guitar track to add back some of that missing 3rd dimension. Even when recorded at fairly low (neighbor friendly) levels this can make a big difference. Great video and I cant wait to hear the record! Thanks and stay safe!
Wow!!! Great idea!
This is hilarious! Mick here.
That is a cool idea! Definitely doable in the home studio!
Dan, I'd encourage you to stay the course. In the same way that you are a subject matter expert with all things pedal, your learnings here benefit an entire community of musicians who are struggling with these issues. Thanks for all your hard work!
Dan: "I've built a pedalboard for this"
Me: "right, of course. couple of pedals to record with."
*cuts to a pedalboard the size of my couch*
Nolan Derosia I laughed at his table-board.
I really find very INSPIRED the way you put together a show YOU ARE THE ONE AND ONLY!
reverb > gain. a well kept secret! Kevin Parker has done this from day one and he’s got just about the best ears in the biz.
fantastic vid Dan! love to see you out of your comfort zone and learning. it’s very inspiring
That main riff is so good! Good job Dan. The harmonized part sounds wicked too. Can't wait for the full track!
Daniel, you SOB!!
On yesterday’s Q&A, you managed our expectations about today’s VLOG production quality. Not expecting much, I tuned in today to a flawless preso!! Absolutely great content!...We are on to you now, Mr. Steinhardt. Well played.
Ah, cheers Z :)
Dan, the look and sound quality of your vlog has certainly come a long way! It's great to see visually how this one looks.
Also loving this journey your on its fascinating seeing you gents tackle this from your different perspectives.
So cool that you're bringing us along for the ride, Dan! Really enjoying these vids! Cheers
Dan, this is an interesting process to learn. Thank you so much for sharing the information. Great videos!
That guitar harmony really bring a Brian May element, especially becouse of the phaser. It's all sounding great Dan 👏👏👏
Yago Ravell reminded me of Frusciante’s harmonized parts circa Stadium Arcadium
Of course......still play through your gear for your performance, but send a clean DI in to the box........use the track as a safeguard if you must or as a second option to see what’s possible as an engineer for yourself. The other really nice thing is if you’re off the beat, you can edit the direct audio and stretch it or shrink it so the transients line up on the beat. Give it a shot!.......it’s hard to go back once you experience the possibilities. Rock on buddy!......love the show!!!!
I'm not sure how Dan did this, but the production quality of this episode is off the charts. Without question the best sounding TPS show ever. Visuals are exemplary. It's like he put in 13-15 hours working his fingers to the bone to make this vlog.
Fantastic episode Dan, but would have loved it to be longer! You're achieving fantastic things, and steep learning curves are the most rewarding. Already loving the song, those harmonised guitar lines are lush! Keep on keeping on :)
That sound for the breakdown is amazing, Dan. Nice touch there. Also, those harmonies! Mixing different modulation effect on the different parts is genius. Really helps them smear across the stereo field but also retain their own character. Love it, mate. Big ups from Down Under!
Cheers Otto 🤓🙏
Always interesting. And you make my day with your DIY bottles support for the monitoring system. Cheers from France...
Yay Rabea. I'm loving both yours and Mick's recording series
Sounding superb. The reverb break down guitar parts are so effective. Dropping the bass out it sounds nice and raw!
Thank you for all the effort, Dan. Great job! What I find interesting in both vlogs is the different goals. Dan is working towards an EP and Mick is working towards a demo.
Very interesting track so far! It's fun to watch your approach to all of this. I'm excited to see how the song flushes out.
Sounds fantastic Dan!! .. Great job.. looking forward to hearing the finished product 🙂
Man your guitar parts sound great! Very clear and present in your mix, and each has a great uniqueness. Well done!
Hi Dan, Excellent VLOG 👍👍👍.
I love the Track so far, particularly the Guitar Harmonies, just Brilliant!
I am enjoying watching your journey with IR's and Tech in general, I wouldn't have known where to start!
Take care mate ♥️👍.
Melbourne, Australia.
I like the DIY speaker-wine bottle holders. Helps the speaker tone be more sober this way I guess?
I just noticed those! It's a handy way to go with a three-point isolation approach!
Looooove the double-tracked part!
Triple?
Really took the end of the world for a TPS episode on IRs 😂 in all seriousness though, this is incredibly helpful, especially now. Thank you guys for continuing the inspiration through all this, it's appreciated by us all. Can't wait to see more unfold
Oh man! Reverb before the dirt at the end of the song sounds killer! Nice work! You guys are such an inspiration.
Cheers mate 🤓👍
9:52 "the weak link is me" Know exactly how you feel. I know the feeling of stting at home on my own with kit and not knowing how to do something. Spend so much time learning that I forget about playing,which is the real reason I'm doing it.
Love that riff, Dan! Can’t wait to hear the finished product.
I love the use of that reverb before gain sound in the breakdown. That really adds something special to that part of it! Excited for more! Stay safe!
Great work big Dan!
You can really hear your love of Neil Finn shining through, sounds great :)
You guys are so great to learn along with! Both your recording series are a lot of fun with the best toy boxes. Cheers!!
I love the new ownhammer IRs, l have a Strymon Iridium and use it as a IR loader with my tube amps and a suhr reactive load.
The ownhammer IRs in there (and in the strymon manager) are the best I've ever heared for low to mid gain sounds.
Also, the mesa IRs in the two notes software are amazing, as rebea pointed out.
Great blog!!! Love the show!
Will you guys be selling those monitor stands in your store??
I was about to comment about those, but I thought iso would mean we all have lots of components for them!
Interesting solution to the over-flowing recycling bin problem!
There’d be arguments over which wines produce the best tones....lots of corksniffing going on....
David Tomkins obviously red wine will give the sound a more full bodied sound where as the white wine will give a clearer crisp tone 🤣
Haha, I literally was just here to comment about those. They sound way better if you drink one of the legs before playback
Dan, this is sounding great! Thanks for sharing, and keep up the great work!
Great stuff Dan. I'm delving into the world of home recording myself since the lockdown and it's really inspiring to see you powering through, even when things get tough. Keep going - it sounds great. That reverb into drive sound is epic!
Hey Dan! Thank you for your amazing efforts to help us all find great sounds at home! One thing I've tried is adding a compressor plugin before my IR loader to get some of that feel back that's lost between the amp, reactive load, and interface.
Props to you man. It took me 8 months to get my first song recorded and mixed by myself (as a hobbyist). It's a huge undertaking, but worth it. Once you get the first one done, the rest becomes much more natural and it gets easier. I just finished recording guitars for my band's album, and it was much more of a breeze.
Nice work Tim, yep, I think I’m over the worst of the learning curve... maybe ;)
sounds dope. Also, aways use wine bottles as speaker stands. The decoupling you get on top is out of this world.
Love Dan's monitor speaker stands, by the time Dan's frustration ends there will be twenty bottles holding up the speakers LOL ;) :p
“I’ve also built a pedalboard”...(insert pedal table!!) - l love it! Really looking forward to more videos and possibly a lessons learned wrap up at the end. Stay safe, Dan!!
Hey Dan! It’s a massive learning curve recording songs by yourself and good on you to you to put it on a vlog. One thing I’ve learnt on the engineer then performance thing is to divide up the work flow. Eg work on sounds and other technical things. Have a break. Then go and do the recording after the break. It takes longer, but I find I give a better performance that way as the break gives you a chance to change your mindset.
Great suggestion 🤓👍
Finally! Reality. Love your show, great information as always and will help while working in my home studio. Revv D20 with torpedo cab built in on it's way.
That Pedal Show - Dan, I was pleasantly surprised to see you put reverb ahead of fuzz and overdrive. It's a magnificent sound, is it not? You have dipped your toe in shoegaze waters.
So inspiring to see both of you work on your own stuff!
Sounds great! :D
x
Great work, Dan. Good on you for continuing to put yourself in an unfamiliar place to achieve growth. Fair play mate.
Dan - liking your monitor riser! DIY to the rescue!
Thanks for the update Dan!
That pedalboard is stuff of legend. Pedalboard goals
I pre-ordered the new two notes captor X that I'm so excited to get once they can ship, gonna be a game changer for at home recording for me !
Er I was going to say exactly the same! Wonder if loadbox sales are rising as everyone gets to stay indoors?
@@davejackson8376 id say 💯, along with USB mics, interfaces, whatever to get people going at home is prob booming
That guitar lead harmony section reminds me of a band called Nutz crossed with Queen. Really liking how this is coming along Dan.
Cheers Mr J ;)
The little Orange cab (8"?) sounded sweet. Seeing Dan surrounded by his board, switcher, power supply, addition pedals strewn around, cabling, amps, load box and vintage tele, orange cab... made me smile
Sounds good. I've been using a loadbox and IR's for a while now...really works well. It never sounds exactly like my amp and cab in room, but I have tons of options with different cabs...more than I could fit in my house! You could also split signal with one going D.I. so you can re-amp later, if needed. I usually use amp with drive pedals or clean into DAW and add all effects in DAW program. Makes adjusting in mix way easier. Always enjoy "That Pedal Show" videos.
I strongly Identify with something Dan is struggling with. I am both a musician and an audio engineer, and I find that they are completely separate brain spaces. Even though I have the equipment, knowledge, and skill to engineer my own recordings, I always prefer to hand that duty over to someone else so I can focus on the performance and nothing else. However that's not always a luxury that I or many other folks have. What works for me is to set aside separate blocks of time. I'll take a week and just get a session template for the project together, and dial in various sounds that fit what I am looking for, save those as presets that I can recall later. I don't worry about writing or performance at all during this time, just getting things dialed in. Then I take a few days off and come back to write and record my parts. It's much easier when you have a palate of sounds ready to go and easily tweaked on the fly, allowing you to focus on the music and be creative.
I struggled hard with IR’s for all the same reasons Dan mentions. It’s like anything else, takes time and experimentation. You eventually begin to understand what you like and why you like it and it begins to get easier. I don’t live in a place I can turn amps up, so I *had* to figure this out if I was going to regain joy in my guitar sound.
Dan just us the ox!!!!! It's soooooo much better then IR's for the tones you dig
Dan, we really need a home studio tour so we know what monitors and equipment you are using other that that MASSIVE pedal chain LOL!! Thank's for being an awesome human being and helping us through these times of trouble!
That riff with reverb into gain was LIT 🔥
i really love that series, it's really interesting! I'm basically at the same point, even tho i recorded and produced for ten years, it was almost ten years ago and back then we used real microphones, bad preamps and bad interface, loads of cracked software and absolutely not enough sleep to produce "pro" sounding stuff!
When i got back to guitars in late 2018, not only i thought it was a mistake because now almost all my savings are gone but also when i heard about IRs i was AMAZED !!! i'm really late to the party with this but people don't even realise how much this is a game changer, for the price of a few IRs, a load box and or a torpedo cab etc, you can have so much more quality than you would have for the same price with mics and preamps.
So now i'm going back to learning, the tutorials on youtube are WAY better than in the early 2007 when i wanted to get a good mix down. Anyway i can't wait to hear you EPs that's gonna be a great motivation a great recording!
thank you so much for your work guys, it's really a good motivation!
cheers matey, you're so welcome
Your comment "The weak link in the chain is me"... I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way! The challenge of trying to be the "engineer" as well as the musician is tough...
LOVE IT IF DAN ACTUALLY took a beginner into RI, DAW and equipment that a beginner might afford.
Cool - I can't wait to hear the finished EP!
So I've been working with the Two Notes Torpedo Studio for the last few months now and wanted to add an additional point. So when you're recording normally, you get the exact tone that you want out of the amp, and you mic it in such a way to reproduce that sound as close as possible on the recording. That gets flipped around with the IR setup. You have to pic the cab and set the mics the way you would think they sound best, then set up your amp to sound the best with that mic configuration. The hardest thing is trying to figure out what to change when it's not sounding the way you want it to. The best thing and the worst thing about the IR setup is how much versatility you have in your sound.
Hi Dan, I really love this video I think it's very honest of you but it's working pretty well
Great stuff Dan. Love your speaker stands - you finally upgraded from the VB tinnies.
Hahaha
Sounds pretty good there Dan. Another thing you can do that people miss- when you’ve done the tracking, turn off the IRS again, send the separate tracks to someone like me with a live room and lots of cabs and mics- and run them back out through real cabs at leisure!
Great idea 🤓👍
I feel "The OX Box" will save a lot of frustration and remove the need for doing endless searches for the right IR's. Nice sounding tracks thus far !
Wow D the tune sounds amazing. Good work. If the rest of the tunes on the EP sounds a good as this man... Can’t wait to hear the whole thing.
I love your monitor stands..! I was just thinking about getting monitor stands, finally after 10 years, the other day and maybe you have discovered the truth Dan.
That reverb into gain thing is the perfect sound for that part
I just bought a Revv D20 amp with built in Two Notes. The main use is intended to be home studio recording & practice amp/looping. Interesting to hear what Dan an Rabea have to say.
The gears amazing, the weak link is me... Thats exactly how I feel every time I record
Wicked sound having a reverb into drives, nice one Dan!!
Ad a wodka bottle to the monitorstands please, euh right after you have introduced the Mini bar fuzz pedal to the misses.
She will not suspect a thing, i promise!!
Grtz!
Loving these Dan. Really interesting to hear guitar tones specifically for a recording. At first when I heard the SM57 I thought ‘oh no all the bottom end has gone’. But then I imagined it in the mix with bass and drums and all of a sudden it seemed to fit!
Great video!!!! I do also record my music through torpedo captor. Sounds great no doubt!
Great episode! But IRs aside, let's please have some love for the Moonphaser! I don't think they're made anymore but I've had mine since 2010. It is so crisp and totally usable at all settings, love it to bits!
Yep, totally totally awesome
Wonderful Dan... thank you for filming
Wow the video/audio quality is fantastic in this one, well done Dan (i'm sure with the helping virtual hand of Mick)!
loving these videos while everyone's stuck at home. And not for nothing, but I'd probably listen to a double album of Dan just messing around with the red panda tensor
Love the wine selection!
Oh, how I hate TH-cam comment advice, but here it is anyway. Taking a page from your Pedal Jams/ Pick&Mix book, I have found a helpful way to deal with IR abundance paralysis. I do with IRs what you guys do with pedals and learn them totally separately from the creative process... I have dedicated 'learn tones' time apart from writing and recording... I 'pracitce IRs'. If it is a thing by itself it is fun exploration... if it is part of trying to capture inspiration like putting a mic in front of a speaker, it is torture... for me at least. Hope that helps or at least encourages. Appreciate you both sharing this process.
Right on Dan, sounding great!
Cheers Willie 🤓👍
On the other hand, Dan is to be an AWESOME producer as he goes down his recording journey. He really understands what all that stuff does, as opposed to someone with loads of cash that buys equipment because they think it will magically solve their problems. Nonetheless, @Padraig Burke I still think that was hilarious! Sorry Dan. Love you and everything you've taught me. Carry on mate.
I'm so glad I got a haircut just before the shelter in place orders came through! Thanks for keeping us sane, Dan! Sam goes for Mick!
The harmony part is great!
Idea for a future episode that I'm curious about: Two identical amps into different cabs with different speakers or two different amps into identical cabs?
Dan great info on IR's and seeing your experience using them. But, why hasn't anyone mentioned how COOL is the new progress bar with the sections marked out on it! The is the first video where I have seen that. Excellent job guys. You have always done a great job including great details in the notes section with time stamps but now this new addition is awesome.
Have been looking for something like this.
Also unintentionally being a great example of “never let the engineer design the UI.”
Love the speaker stands 👍
Dan, when you play the clip at the end and the drums/bass drop out, to quote you "sounds mega"
Ah, cheers mate :)
Redwirez mixIR3 and lot of Celestion IRs will get get you many hours of joy and great sounds. If you stick to Celestion IRs, they will all be in phase and work beautifully ;-) You can mix up to 4 cabs at a time.
Dang, Dan, I love the three part harmony in the chorus. I maintain that I hear the influence of LRB from First Under the Wire. Sooooo good! You left me wanting more!
Sounded like Brian May to me.
Sick riff man. Wanna hear those drums break into half time!
I recently picked up a Two Notes CAB M and use a Bearfoot FX Dyna Red Distortion (Marshall AIAB) as the pre-amp. While amp-in-a-box pedals aren't necessarily a pre-amp, this has worked great with the gain down below 9 o'clock. I need to try my Emerald Green (Vox AIAB) too! It's been an amazing addition to the gear! While I haven't recorded with it, it's been much easier to play with backing tracks (using the aux in so far). The lessons I subscribed to offers a back track for each lesson to practice over so the quiet playing has also been a relief for my girlfriend :). Bluetooth connectivity is amazing for software edits and I really love the mic options for fine tuning of the sound. Really excited to see how your EP turns out Dan! Really love the harmonies and the reverb into fuzz tone!
I have many IR loaders including some of the mentioned here, but my first choice is the IR's in the free version of IK Amplitube for clean tones. The Cab section is completely free, very flexible, and sounds really good.
I love the fact that Dan’s monitors are each mounted on three wine bottles. I can’t remember reading that particular tip in Sound On Sound magazine! 😂🍷🍷🍷