Tone 1, 3, 5 are hands down the best of the bunch for me. I was just about to pull the trigger on STL Amp Hub as I'm not getting on with Gojira X in the slightest. This has convinced me to stick and support the free vst route. Tone 3 is absolutely beautiful.
I’ve got emissary and the overdrive pedal and ir loader but I’m having trouble downloading the best ir in the world.. or getting it into the ir it’s self. Might you be able to help ?
Hey man awesome video. I tried copying your set up with a few of these tones and my tone sounds absolutely nothing like yours. Im honestly quite fresh with using DAWs (started today lol) but was your set up straight into an interface? I've copied your 1st tone exactly and it sounds like im playing on a 5w practice amp or something hahaha.
I'm new just trying to understand, cuz idk shit about recording . So u plugin your physical amp and use the gain from that and then just use the plugins for different tones?
Negative. Most people use an Audio Interface which is a device that takes an analog signal and converts it to digital. You plug your guitar into the Audio Interface using a 1/4" cable and then plug the Audio Interface into your computer via USB. The Audio Interface is basically a sound card and they're not that expensive either. On the back of your Audio Interface is usually XLR outputs or 1/4" outputs to connect monitors to. This opens up a whole slew of options and honestly, it's all you really need for professional sound. I'm apologizing now because I'm at work and I'm going to write you a novel explaining this stuff... Inside your DAW of choice, digital audio workstation, like Fruity Loops, Cubase, Reaper, Pro Tools, you setup the input output so it knows which signal to accept and which would be your Audio Interface. Inside the DAW (software) after getting that setup, which is often times automatic, you can then use digital effects. The best approach for this, in my opinion, is to create a folder inside of your DAWs root directory and name it VST or Plugins. There you can download all of your effects and save them into that folder which makes life a little easier because after you install a plugin, you have to point your DAW to that folder to load from, otherwise you'll have to individually point your DAW to multiple folders possibly. On windows it would be like C: > Program Files x86 > Cuckos > Reaper > VST I'm using an example for Reaper because it's also free if you decide not to pay for the license but highly recommend you do pay for it. Anyways, inside of your DAW, you'd add a track and then add effects. I don't know definitively if other DAWs do this but in Reaper it mimicks a signal chain in the order of what you open first. In a real life setup for guitar you'd have a signal chain like: Guitar, cable, into an noisegate pedal, into an overdrive pedal, into your amp and then cabinet, and delay and reverb after that. That's the signal chain. The same is true for Reaper. So if you wanted to make a digital signal chain you'd open up your: noisegate, drive, amp, cab, delay, reverb, in that order. And of course you can move them around inside the effects window. Turn on record monitoring and bam! People often talk about latency being an issue but I have not experienced that. That's when you pluck a string and then you hear it a moment later. My latency is so fast that it doesn't bother me. Another cool thing is, and I'm sorry for making this so long but I feel it's important, is Impulse Response technology and why you should know it. An impulse response or IR, is a snapshot of a cabinet + speaker + room + microphone. Someone sets a microphone up in front of their speaker and then sends a pulse of sound through the speaker which the microphone captures. This sound when recorded is the EQ of that speaker + cab + room + microphone. It's literally a snapshot of that combination and can be saved as a small file. You can then open up NadIR or Lapou Lecab software to load the impulse response, thus giving you a digital cab. Pair your favorite digital amp to that "cab" and you can come very close to recreating someone's sound. The only disadvantage to an IR is it being CD quality and it is not the entire spectrum of sound when compared to a real life cabinet. If you held the microphone directly in the middle of a speaker, it will give you a snapshot of where the microphone is placed and that will be different than if you moved the microphone to the edge of the speaker. You're limited to the microphone being used and the placement of the microphone. It can only pick up a limited range of frequencys and different microphones all have their advantages and disadvantages of what they can pickup. The same thing happens when professional bands record their music! They mic up the cabinet and then record their take. Often times they have to record several instances so a different mic can be used to give a "fuller" sound. And if you listened to their song on your computer with monitors or headphones, you can recreate that sound too because when their song was recorded, it was saved as 64 bit which is also what an impulse response would sound like too. So my point is, you can get CD quality with impulse response technology and sound just as good as your favorite band being played through your monitors. However, in a live setting, a tube amp will always sound better because your ears are the microphone and your ears can pickup a whole bunch of frequencys that a microphone cannot. The limitations of impulse response technology isn't as bad as it sounds though. The "snapshot" of a cabinet and microphone combination can be stored in such a small file that you can have unlimited combinations saved on your PC, assuming you have the memory. So for example if you wanted to sound like Metallica, they used a modded Mk2C+ amplifier with Vintage 30 speakers, you could find an IR with an SM57 microphone recorded smack in the center of the cone and then also load up another IR with a Royer 121 angled 45°. Play that on your guitar and you could come super close to sounding identical to them. Hope this all makes sense. With their combination recorded and played back through your monitors would be no different than loading up your IRs and playing your guitar through your monitors. Obviously theirs is mixed and mastered and your pickups and fine tuned digital amp and speaker placement will be different but you can come very close to sounding like them. I actually have a video demonstrating this called Metallica Orion Guitar Preset. But to answer your simple question, lol, guitarists use an Audio Interface 😂
Consider that this is dual tracker, with bass in a mix context. Your guitars sounding dry is likely a bass factor. The guitars here are EQ'd to glue nicely with the bass and kick drum. I know this was commented a year ago, but just in case 🤣
Tone 1, 3, 5 are hands down the best of the bunch for me. I was just about to pull the trigger on STL Amp Hub as I'm not getting on with Gojira X in the slightest.
This has convinced me to stick and support the free vst route. Tone 3 is absolutely beautiful.
Many TH-camrs fail to deliver such practical explanations. Great video without any bullshit.
Great breakdown of all the tones and settings. Many thanks!
This is a blessing of a video. SICK production too, you know how to dial in a powerful, focused, and balanced sound. Cheers!
I would have downloaded those plugins if he didn't swear.
Dude, amazing video. Very helpful.
Could you do one on using noise gates for guitar, especially setting up GGate for lead tones with high sustain?
Great video and resource for a free signal chain
Great info, thanks dude!
Can't wait to try this
I’ve got emissary and the overdrive pedal and ir loader but I’m having trouble downloading the best ir in the world.. or getting it into the ir it’s self. Might you be able to help ?
I think your tones are a tad treble heavy but this is awesome info man! But also we all got our own taste. Thats the beauty of producing
Great work! Everyone loves free and everyone loves great tones.......and EVERYONE loves Meshuggah
Thanks man, great info
Anyone have the Nalex Ninja plugin backed up they could send me? I can't find it online anywhere now.
Hey man awesome video. I tried copying your set up with a few of these tones and my tone sounds absolutely nothing like yours. Im honestly quite fresh with using DAWs (started today lol) but was your set up straight into an interface? I've copied your 1st tone exactly and it sounds like im playing on a 5w practice amp or something hahaha.
Same dude. I just dont understand at all.
Thank-you!
gOOD TONES!
How do you get it less bassy?
I'm new just trying to understand, cuz idk shit about recording . So u plugin your physical amp and use the gain from that and then just use the plugins for different tones?
I've watched this video like 20 times 🤣
Negative. Most people use an Audio Interface which is a device that takes an analog signal and converts it to digital. You plug your guitar into the Audio Interface using a 1/4" cable and then plug the Audio Interface into your computer via USB. The Audio Interface is basically a sound card and they're not that expensive either. On the back of your Audio Interface is usually XLR outputs or 1/4" outputs to connect monitors to. This opens up a whole slew of options and honestly, it's all you really need for professional sound. I'm apologizing now because I'm at work and I'm going to write you a novel explaining this stuff...
Inside your DAW of choice, digital audio workstation, like Fruity Loops, Cubase, Reaper, Pro Tools, you setup the input output so it knows which signal to accept and which would be your Audio Interface. Inside the DAW (software) after getting that setup, which is often times automatic, you can then use digital effects. The best approach for this, in my opinion, is to create a folder inside of your DAWs root directory and name it VST or Plugins. There you can download all of your effects and save them into that folder which makes life a little easier because after you install a plugin, you have to point your DAW to that folder to load from, otherwise you'll have to individually point your DAW to multiple folders possibly. On windows it would be like
C: > Program Files x86 > Cuckos > Reaper > VST
I'm using an example for Reaper because it's also free if you decide not to pay for the license but highly recommend you do pay for it. Anyways, inside of your DAW, you'd add a track and then add effects. I don't know definitively if other DAWs do this but in Reaper it mimicks a signal chain in the order of what you open first. In a real life setup for guitar you'd have a signal chain like: Guitar, cable, into an noisegate pedal, into an overdrive pedal, into your amp and then cabinet, and delay and reverb after that. That's the signal chain. The same is true for Reaper. So if you wanted to make a digital signal chain you'd open up your: noisegate, drive, amp, cab, delay, reverb, in that order. And of course you can move them around inside the effects window. Turn on record monitoring and bam!
People often talk about latency being an issue but I have not experienced that. That's when you pluck a string and then you hear it a moment later. My latency is so fast that it doesn't bother me.
Another cool thing is, and I'm sorry for making this so long but I feel it's important, is Impulse Response technology and why you should know it. An impulse response or IR, is a snapshot of a cabinet + speaker + room + microphone. Someone sets a microphone up in front of their speaker and then sends a pulse of sound through the speaker which the microphone captures. This sound when recorded is the EQ of that speaker + cab + room + microphone. It's literally a snapshot of that combination and can be saved as a small file. You can then open up NadIR or Lapou Lecab software to load the impulse response, thus giving you a digital cab. Pair your favorite digital amp to that "cab" and you can come very close to recreating someone's sound. The only disadvantage to an IR is it being CD quality and it is not the entire spectrum of sound when compared to a real life cabinet. If you held the microphone directly in the middle of a speaker, it will give you a snapshot of where the microphone is placed and that will be different than if you moved the microphone to the edge of the speaker. You're limited to the microphone being used and the placement of the microphone. It can only pick up a limited range of frequencys and different microphones all have their advantages and disadvantages of what they can pickup. The same thing happens when professional bands record their music! They mic up the cabinet and then record their take. Often times they have to record several instances so a different mic can be used to give a "fuller" sound. And if you listened to their song on your computer with monitors or headphones, you can recreate that sound too because when their song was recorded, it was saved as 64 bit which is also what an impulse response would sound like too. So my point is, you can get CD quality with impulse response technology and sound just as good as your favorite band being played through your monitors. However, in a live setting, a tube amp will always sound better because your ears are the microphone and your ears can pickup a whole bunch of frequencys that a microphone cannot. The limitations of impulse response technology isn't as bad as it sounds though. The "snapshot" of a cabinet and microphone combination can be stored in such a small file that you can have unlimited combinations saved on your PC, assuming you have the memory. So for example if you wanted to sound like Metallica, they used a modded Mk2C+ amplifier with Vintage 30 speakers, you could find an IR with an SM57 microphone recorded smack in the center of the cone and then also load up another IR with a Royer 121 angled 45°. Play that on your guitar and you could come super close to sounding identical to them. Hope this all makes sense. With their combination recorded and played back through your monitors would be no different than loading up your IRs and playing your guitar through your monitors. Obviously theirs is mixed and mastered and your pickups and fine tuned digital amp and speaker placement will be different but you can come very close to sounding like them. I actually have a video demonstrating this called Metallica Orion Guitar Preset. But to answer your simple question, lol, guitarists use an Audio Interface 😂
Hey man, I'm on Reaper and just can't get the tone to sound even close to yours, it's VERY dry. Any help please?
Consider that this is dual tracker, with bass in a mix context. Your guitars sounding dry is likely a bass factor. The guitars here are EQ'd to glue nicely with the bass and kick drum.
I know this was commented a year ago, but just in case 🤣
sick
RVXX isnt free, so why did you include this?
subbing
why your cam look like a potato in that intro footage lmao. phone?
You look like a young, not cracked out, version of Jonathan Davis. Totes not trying to offend you either lol. Also how y'all like the agile geetard
Haha no offense taken I get Steve Aoki a lot too when I put my hair down, thanks for checking out the vid lmao