How do you make instruments to stick together (glue) so well with each other in a mix? I know it's probably eq related but I wanna know if there's anything else you could say about it.
Camilo Hernandez I know you’re asking Keyan specifically, but I feel like I have a decent opinion on this. For me, what makes them glue together is actually everything before I mix. I make sure my signal going into my interface or amp is as clean as possible, I make sure my parts are recorded as perfectly as I can record them, and I always make sure my tones sound good on their own. Good arrangement helps as well. You could have the best tones in the world but the parts need to fit together. Those things will get you 90% of the way there. The mixing part is just the fine tuning tool if that makes sense
LOL Was that a late April Fool's joke? Because Amped Roots came out exactly a year ago. You've been busy shilling premium plugins that you've missed all the amazing free amp sims of 2020.
Hey keyan, you do a tremendous job of teaching us so many things. However, could you also tell us more about making tones if you have a low end guitar and not guitars like you have. Like a high end guitar you know😅
For those of you less than morally inclined, Reaper doesn’t stop working after the “60 Day Evaluation” is over, it just reminds you they’d like some money for their hard work developing one of the best and most affordable DAW’s in the game.
Wow I hadn't realised how much you're riffing style has influenced mine until now haha. I've been finding myself using the same kind of rhythms a lot (mostly by accident). Great stuff!!
It's fantastic to see your channel growing, but it baffles me as to why it's not happening faster. This is seriously some of the best guitar-focused content on you tube. Thank you Keyan!
I just wanted to say thank you for putting this kind of content out, ive been playing guitar for a long time now and its gotten stale since i had been in a band, and ive just wanted to write music and these videos have been a massive help when it comes to learning how to use my software. I appreciate the videos a lot! Also youre a killer guitarist.
I have to say, I just got an interface where I'm finally trying to adjust myself to ACTUALLY recording myself as opposed to having someone record me... Your channel has helped me tremendously when it comes to finding some of these neat free plugins for guitars.. and watching your videos makes me realize how bad I need to change my fucking strings lmao... Cheers man. Absolute love your content.
Bro I trust you completely. My tone for everything that i do is either Bias Fx 2 and now the new Soldano plugin and I use your presets untouched. 🤘🏽keep it up!
Great peace of music. These free plugins just show that in a lot of cases what most matters is your ears, taste and habiliteis to proper dial and mix all of it. Of course there are amazing paid plugins and I’m not questioning this.
I downloaded all of the plugins and have everything working except that the Nadir plugin won't load your impulse response file. Is there something to fix that? Also, I'm so glad I found your channel! I have been trying to find guitar tones like this for a long time but I don't know anything. Haha!
Thank you Keyan so much , you helped me a lot with the sound setup , this is my first preset ! The video is useful even for those who are not strong in English, I am one of them! Good luck in your new endeavors !
I have bias fx2 and I use it more for the effects itself like ambience but sometimes I realise that there are loads of good distortion tones for free, like this one and also the emissary, I also saw your video how to get good tones in bias fx2 and it helped me a lot :)... today is so easy to get good tones but also is so hard to buy every single one hahaha. Greetings from Brazil buddy
Always such quality content, man. I just finished building a guitar this weekend and I was struggling to find a decent tone to go with the P90s I put in it. This tone actually sounds really nice with just a couple minor adjustments to the EQ and the brightness on the drive pedal. I love trying out the tones you recommend! Thanks so much for all your hard work!
FYI... Follow the exact steps he lays out for a good tone. If you skip any of these it'll sound trash. The eq, pedal and the IRs in Nadir. It honestly sounds really good.
cool riffs and chuggy tonesssss!! not usually a big fan of jackson, but that thing of yours is just beautiful. u should take a look at the djent god by amped and the black rooster audio cypress
Great video again dude. Here's my question....what is your video and vocal setup for your videos? How do you edit your footage and mix your vocals? Cheers
@@Balesz36 So the problem was that nadir is part of a free bundle where you get the emissary amp and something else but I didn’t know that back then. I watched another video on how to install the nadir and figured ir out so I managed to get the same tone to work properly. Thanks for asking! Edit: I use Reaper atm
What's your go to oractice routine amd what exercises did you use to develop new skills, like more progressive tapping, maybe some fancy lead work? Oh, yeah, btw, would be good to know weather you can slapp or sweep
First off, thank you so much for doing this, I learn a lot from you ! I just downloaded these exact plugins and did what you said. It defiently sounds better that the amps I used before. BUT I've been struggling for sooo long to get a decent tone out of my guitar. Still when I try to groove to a drumbeat it sounds muffled and doesn't fit. I have a theory about it might not be the plugins or my signal, but my guitar. I use a stratocaster mexican. I know that's not an ideal guitar for metal. I've tried everything so I might need to get a new guitar before I can play rock music. It would be cool if you one day showed exactly how you mix your guitars so it fits with the drums and in the mix.
2 possible things I can think of right away: 1) When I plug my guitar directly into my audio interface, it doesn't sound as good as when I either plug into a tubescreamer or another pedal that is NOT true bypass and that has a good buffer -- even if I don't turn the pedal on -- or if I plug into a D.I. (a direct box). I got a cheap Livewire active direct box, something like $50 new at the local Guitar Center, and it makes a noticeable difference when plugging into that and then into the sound card. 2) I have a MiM strat from 2008 that has a humbucker and 2 single coils, and it's fine for metal. But if the bridge pickup is also a single coild and you want a hotter pickup, it can be replaced by either swapping out the single coil to something like the Seymour Duncan JB Jr (I put one in a different strat guitar), which is a single coil-sized humbucker that sounds great IMO, or you could take the pickguard off and make sure the guitar is routed to have space to fit a humbucker (I'm pretty sure the MiM strats likely all are able to). Then you could change the pickguard and add a full size humbucker in the bridge, wired in with the single coils. Anyway, IMO because you say it sounds muffled, I think the first thing I mentioned might be the root cause, as strat single coils tend to be bright instead of muffled. And making sure to turn the overdrive pedal plugin on. A last thing; sometimes you need to adjust the input on the audio interface. It might help to turn the gain up enough where it's slightly clipping occasionally when playing hard.
Hey! First off, i love your channel! Love watching how you do things and how you play! Second, my question! When finalizing your mixes, how do you regularly go about setting your levels before hitting your master bus with compression, eq, etc? I've been having issues with my levels and how my mixes end up sounding because i'm a bit hearing impaired :') Thanks in advance!
What I don't like about ML Sound Labs is the fact that it's mono only. Why? I find it infuriating having to copy and paste the amp sim to my doubled guitar whenever I make changes to one side. I want both sides 100% the same. Every other plugin in my chain is stereo except this one. Also the guitar tone is about 50% of your mix. Your mix sounds huge because of the well produced drums and bass tone. I wish more people would realize this before asking why their mix isn't sounding huge.
Been using the free Ignite plugin for my home demos/writing with a tube screamer plugin, just gave the roots a try in combo with this precision drive emulator. THANK YOU for this video good sir! instantly I'm able to sculpt a far more articulated chunky ass tone, the built in gate in the drive with the gate on the roots pedal board was just what i needed to deal with this old as hell terribly old noisey ass apartment n its shitty old ass electrics!
Did i miss the part where you showed us how to put the plug ins into fl studio so you can use them? I really feel like the video skipped a bunch of steps between downloading the files and having everything set up and ready to go
For the riffs you kinda randomly play here and there during your videos, like when demonstrating a new tone package, are they riffs you wrote or from riffs from songs you like?
Dual tracking is much better in most cases. You can achieve super thick guitar tones with only 2 guitar tracks, quad tracking will only work in a few situations where songs are super slow and do not require much skill when playing riffs.
Awesome man, can you share this reaper template for details? I downloaded all plugins and i would like sound like you, regards from Costa Rica, Pura Vida!!
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How do you make instruments to stick together (glue) so well with each other in a mix? I know it's probably eq related but I wanna know if there's anything else you could say about it.
Camilo Hernandez I know you’re asking Keyan specifically, but I feel like I have a decent opinion on this. For me, what makes them glue together is actually everything before I mix. I make sure my signal going into my interface or amp is as clean as possible, I make sure my parts are recorded as perfectly as I can record them, and I always make sure my tones sound good on their own. Good arrangement helps as well. You could have the best tones in the world but the parts need to fit together. Those things will get you 90% of the way there. The mixing part is just the fine tuning tool if that makes sense
LOL Was that a late April Fool's joke? Because Amped Roots came out exactly a year ago.
You've been busy shilling premium plugins that you've missed all the amazing free amp sims of 2020.
Hey keyan, you do a tremendous job of teaching us so many things. However, could you also tell us more about making tones if you have a low end guitar and not guitars like you have. Like a high end guitar you know😅
How do you go about creating these awesome demos? i.e songwriting n' stuff.
For those of you less than morally inclined, Reaper doesn’t stop working after the “60 Day Evaluation” is over, it just reminds you they’d like some money for their hard work developing one of the best and most affordable DAW’s in the game.
Man, if only we could see these riffs in a band setting IRL.
Never say never
Why couldn't you‽
@@KeyanHoushmandLive Well
@@xcvd2534 dream came true
This dude is just waiting for the day when periphery need a new guitarist
Well he's definitely good enough thats for true
6:07 that riff brooooo !!! oooomgg is amazing
it’s Coven by Thornhill
@@kingnary9th688 thanks mate 😁
Seeing Keyan go all in when he plays big chords will never not bring a smile to my face.
This is the type of channel that you hit the like button without even having seen the video
When do we get a band with you and Joao?
Dude, that demo track was sooooooo tasty. It's crazy all the feels in just that short bit of time.. Well done, mate!
Thanks for making this vid! 🤟
that noise gate is a good tip. I forgot I could set that up to repair my weakened signal and high gain pickups.
Wow I hadn't realised how much you're riffing style has influenced mine until now haha. I've been finding myself using the same kind of rhythms a lot (mostly by accident). Great stuff!!
It's fantastic to see your channel growing, but it baffles me as to why it's not happening faster. This is seriously some of the best guitar-focused content on you tube. Thank you Keyan!
12:28 Gungrave
T H E riff
Keyan buddy, Thank you for this video. I finally found my favorite guitar tone. \m/
I just wanted to say thank you for putting this kind of content out, ive been playing guitar for a long time now and its gotten stale since i had been in a band, and ive just wanted to write music and these videos have been a massive help when it comes to learning how to use my software. I appreciate the videos a lot! Also youre a killer guitarist.
That thing at 2:13 got me misty eyed and that hasn't happened since I heard Toska - Abomasum for the first time.
What a fitting choice of jumper...
It's so comfy
Bruh you nailed misha mansoors tone with free plugins oh my days
I have to say, I just got an interface where I'm finally trying to adjust myself to ACTUALLY recording myself as opposed to having someone record me... Your channel has helped me tremendously when it comes to finding some of these neat free plugins for guitars.. and watching your videos makes me realize how bad I need to change my fucking strings lmao... Cheers man. Absolute love your content.
Bro I trust you completely. My tone for everything that i do is either Bias Fx 2 and now the new Soldano plugin and I use your presets untouched. 🤘🏽keep it up!
holy fuck bro the sheer energy outburst at 2:13 in that riff
Thank you so much for this video! Been looking for exactly this.
"the dr drive didn't sound anything like the pre--"
"and when i did an A/B i found i needed an EQ to get it right"
"I--- alright"
Great peace of music. These free plugins just show that in a lot of cases what most matters is your ears, taste and habiliteis to proper dial and mix all of it.
Of course there are amazing paid plugins and I’m not questioning this.
I downloaded all of the plugins and have everything working except that the Nadir plugin won't load your impulse response file. Is there something to fix that? Also, I'm so glad I found your channel! I have been trying to find guitar tones like this for a long time but I don't know anything. Haha!
Thank you Keyan so much , you helped me a lot with the sound setup , this is my first preset !
The video is useful even for those who are not strong in English, I am one of them!
Good luck in your new endeavors !
The demo song he did in the beginning song rocked hard
thanks so much for posting!!
Insane riffing. You could make a video or playlist with just these short songs you play in the begging of the reviews.
Congrats.
second? lol! anyway, looking forward to this! Your NDSP Soldano presets are awesome!! Thanks for the presets!!
Your doing exactly what i do pedal vst into amp sim into ir loader and in fl studio
dude you always come through with the best content and links to gear! thanks man!
great as always! Really nice vid. cutting 👍💪
Bro, I would love to hear a complete song based on what you just showed us!! MIND-BLOWING
Good god that Gungrave riff is just too damn filthy.
That IR sounds killer with the 5034🚀. I didn’t find the right IR for that amp until today, thanks🤘🏻
Thanks K Man !!! 🤘
Loved the tone! Nice video
Your riffs always slap.
Hey Kenyan, always great stuff… just wanted to let you know that TH-cam is Overlaying Caption Text that says “Hi my name is Ken Fishman…”😂
A fun surprise is that the modern drive end of the blue cat free amp can replace the amped roots.
I have bias fx2 and I use it more for the effects itself like ambience but sometimes I realise that there are loads of good distortion tones for free, like this one and also the emissary, I also saw your video how to get good tones in bias fx2 and it helped me a lot :)... today is so easy to get good tones but also is so hard to buy every single one hahaha. Greetings from Brazil buddy
if you had to pick another instrument to play what would it be
i totally forgot that i downloaded TDR Nova months ago and still haven't used it. thanks for reminding me \m/
For amp section may use lepou. Old but gold
So much energy in guitar playing. So cool!!
This is pretty great sound for all free plugins! Also, sounds killer in the mix.
My man finally checked out the Dr. Drive
Forget the tone, that's a SICK riff dude.
25k Question!
When can we plan on getting some original music from you 🥺
Mate! I’d love to get a rundown of your computer and interface setup. I’ve got a MacBook and need a lesson or 2 on the setup!
Always such quality content, man. I just finished building a guitar this weekend and I was struggling to find a decent tone to go with the P90s I put in it. This tone actually sounds really nice with just a couple minor adjustments to the EQ and the brightness on the drive pedal. I love trying out the tones you recommend! Thanks so much for all your hard work!
Can you recommend a good 7 string for your style of playing. Been using custom 24 prs forever, in the market for something heavier.
Amazing video!
Little did we know this one is gonna become the monster “Pulse”.
Top tone ! thank
the stock cab is also good
FYI... Follow the exact steps he lays out for a good tone. If you skip any of these it'll sound trash. The eq, pedal and the IRs in Nadir. It honestly sounds really good.
Thanks fam sounds great. No questions really
thanks for making this video I will be sure to try out the tones for myself they may sound bad cause I'm using a strat currently.
godayum that song was CRISP !!! reminded me of Novelists
Looking forward to this 🤘
Absolute banger of a riff.
Cant believe i havent subbed already , myy badddd
cool riffs and chuggy tonesssss!! not usually a big fan of jackson, but that thing of yours is just beautiful. u should take a look at the djent god by amped and the black rooster audio cypress
Great video man! thank you, now we need to know how to complete that sound, I mean the mix, the bass, the drums...
AWESOME Big time .... What are you using to get your Dum Tracks ?
Epic riffs as usual. Is your 7 string in drop A?
Great video again dude. Here's my question....what is your video and vocal setup for your videos? How do you edit your footage and mix your vocals? Cheers
That gungrave riff🤘🤘
Beautiful demo song
Searching for the best monitors to play through. Without breaking the bank. Any suggestions? Great video BTW. New subscriber
Man your playing is sick! How you developed your own style?
Good tone!
You did a good job explaining your setup.
Question, not sure if it was mentioned, but are you using a DI box? Or just a regular audio interface?
I think now he only uses a focusrite scarlett 4i4 without a DI box, direct to the inst input
Late reply, but he uses a DI box or his input clips when he palm mutes.
Killer tone man! But i'm having trouble installing the NadIr.
I just started Messing with plugins in general.
What’s the problem exactly? And DAW are you using?
@@Balesz36 So the problem was that nadir is part of a free bundle where you get the emissary amp and something else but I didn’t know that back then. I watched another video on how to install the nadir and figured ir out so I managed to get the same tone to work properly.
Thanks for asking!
Edit: I use Reaper atm
this shit busin. What daw are you using
What's your go to oractice routine amd what exercises did you use to develop new skills, like more progressive tapping, maybe some fancy lead work?
Oh, yeah, btw, would be good to know weather you can slapp or sweep
This video is fantastic but MAN there is a lot of 4k in that tone.
Yo man the BEST IR IN THE WORLD link broke
Yeees, great video.
Do a video on Stevie T's Djentgod amp plugin.
I did, but I liked this one more.
I agree. That 5150 III standard is magic in a mix. Even Joe Duplantier prefers it over the EVH stealth. Strange too since the stealth is tighter.
was that jukai at 7:50? :P
That riff was from Riff Wars 2 :D
Stellar tone aside, the composition of the riff is absolute choice.
12:28
What song is this riff from? 😳
ERRA!
@@heardlessmusic
I already got it, thanks😁
First off, thank you so much for doing this, I learn a lot from you ! I just downloaded these exact plugins and did what you said. It defiently sounds better that the amps I used before. BUT I've been struggling for sooo long to get a decent tone out of my guitar. Still when I try to groove to a drumbeat it sounds muffled and doesn't fit.
I have a theory about it might not be the plugins or my signal, but my guitar. I use a stratocaster mexican. I know that's not an ideal guitar for metal. I've tried everything so I might need to get a new guitar before I can play rock music.
It would be cool if you one day showed exactly how you mix your guitars so it fits with the drums and in the mix.
stratocasters are fine for metal even single coils don't sound terrible
the issue is probably somewhere else lol
2 possible things I can think of right away: 1) When I plug my guitar directly into my audio interface, it doesn't sound as good as when I either plug into a tubescreamer or another pedal that is NOT true bypass and that has a good buffer -- even if I don't turn the pedal on -- or if I plug into a D.I. (a direct box). I got a cheap Livewire active direct box, something like $50 new at the local Guitar Center, and it makes a noticeable difference when plugging into that and then into the sound card. 2) I have a MiM strat from 2008 that has a humbucker and 2 single coils, and it's fine for metal. But if the bridge pickup is also a single coild and you want a hotter pickup, it can be replaced by either swapping out the single coil to something like the Seymour Duncan JB Jr (I put one in a different strat guitar), which is a single coil-sized humbucker that sounds great IMO, or you could take the pickguard off and make sure the guitar is routed to have space to fit a humbucker (I'm pretty sure the MiM strats likely all are able to). Then you could change the pickguard and add a full size humbucker in the bridge, wired in with the single coils. Anyway, IMO because you say it sounds muffled, I think the first thing I mentioned might be the root cause, as strat single coils tend to be bright instead of muffled. And making sure to turn the overdrive pedal plugin on. A last thing; sometimes you need to adjust the input on the audio interface. It might help to turn the gain up enough where it's slightly clipping occasionally when playing hard.
Right now Roots is in 1.3.0 version. Make sure to update it!
7:35 What Monuments song is that?
Jukai
@@jacob7225 thanks!
Are you using Eurobass in your mix? I use it for absolutely all of Metal tracks, but was interested in how Djinnbass sounds
Hey! First off, i love your channel! Love watching how you do things and how you play!
Second, my question!
When finalizing your mixes, how do you regularly go about setting your levels before hitting your master bus with compression, eq, etc? I've been having issues with my levels and how my mixes end up sounding because i'm a bit hearing impaired :')
Thanks in advance!
What I don't like about ML Sound Labs is the fact that it's mono only. Why? I find it infuriating having to copy and paste the amp sim to my doubled guitar whenever I make changes to one side. I want both sides 100% the same. Every other plugin in my chain is stereo except this one.
Also the guitar tone is about 50% of your mix. Your mix sounds huge because of the well produced drums and bass tone. I wish more people would realize this before asking why their mix isn't sounding huge.
Guitar amps are mono and when you put a mic to them you record it in mono?
Been using the free Ignite plugin for my home demos/writing with a tube screamer plugin, just gave the roots a try in combo with this precision drive emulator.
THANK YOU for this video good sir! instantly I'm able to sculpt a far more articulated chunky ass tone, the built in gate in the drive with the gate on the roots pedal board was just what i needed to deal with this old as hell terribly old noisey ass apartment n its shitty old ass electrics!
I love your videos
Did i miss the part where you showed us how to put the plug ins into fl studio so you can use them? I really feel like the video skipped a bunch of steps between downloading the files and having everything set up and ready to go
For the riffs you kinda randomly play here and there during your videos, like when demonstrating a new tone package, are they riffs you wrote or from riffs from songs you like?
He does a mix of both for a lot of his videos from what I've noticed
Hi Keyan, why do you favour dual tracking guitars as opposed to quad tracking? Thanks!
Dual tracking is much better in most cases.
You can achieve super thick guitar tones with only 2 guitar tracks, quad tracking will only work in a few situations where songs are super slow and do not require much skill when playing riffs.
Would panning the IR to the left be the same as just loading the Best IR in the world into both R and L tracks and panning to 0?
Yep, it acts as a blend knob for mixing IR's. Set it to whatever you hear works:)
Awesome man, can you share this reaper template for details? I downloaded all plugins and i would like sound like you, regards from Costa Rica, Pura Vida!!
do you have to add a standalone amp and hook it up to my air|8 if so do u have to mic the amp or do i use a virtual amp cabinet plugin?