Great video! Just want to add this for any newbies guitarists who want to make huge metal mixes - fix your drums first before you get into the guitar tones. In my experience first get an absolutely banging drum sound, a huge bass tone, and you're gonna sound massive no matter what the guitar tone is. Like, the drum tone is more important than the guitar tone overall in my opinion. I spent YEARS trying to make my mixes sound huge by tweaking guitars and it never worked. But then I started studying other tracks, experimenting with mix templates, drum libraries and presets, and stuff and then I realised - if your kick and snare are massive, there's a good fx chain on the master bus, and your bass is big as a rhino's arse - you really are sorted and then the guitars are like, the raw pasta and the drums and bass are the sauce. Good pasta is important but the sauce is what really makes it a dish. You can get away with having ok pasta if you have excellent sauce, not the other way around imo.
@@RayFerrettiif you record both at the same time, you can use the printed tone for playback and then save heaps of processing power and put less strain on your CPU from constantly needing to feed DIs into an amp sim every time you hit play
This is amazing, gotta try this next time. I always feel lost when doing some of this stuff, I especially find myself trying to "mix" using the EQ sometimes when I'm not happy with the starting tone yet.
I swear this video fixed my tone issue! I applied it to my physical gear and it fixed the issues I had! I know its sad but i never thought of adjusting the amp settings besides the gain... But it honestly fixed my issues!
Idk whether I just have bad ears, terrible headphones (or both) but it's sometimes really difficult for me to discern the difference between the subtle tweaks he's making along the way to shape the overall tone. Stuff feels like magic ✨
He is going very fast and also knows exactly what he is listening for so I wouldn't worry too much if you can't notice it. You can for sure train your ears more and your listening device makes a huge difference
He's making subtle differences to an already good tone. When the amp is good to begin with only slight sculpting is needed. He's set this up pretty much exactly how I do my 5150 with a 10 band in the loop.
Look at this way he is doing things that individually change like 2-5% of the tone, and on its own that component can be hard discern but with years of messing around you notice them more and more but even so it’s such a small adjustment he is making. Then you take into account that he has made 10 different changes to different parameters and that all make a 2-5% difference it becomes a 20-50% difference than where you started. A good amp will sound decent with most things set to the middle position and really are there for fine adjustments in most cases.
Yeah man! I got a cheap 7 string Jackson last year and I'm modding it with some custom Stringjoy's and Graphtech locking tuners; still deciding on what specific amp/sim, distortion and compression pedals to get but I'm excited to get my tone sounding sick like this! I'm also a live sound engineer so I wanna use that to my advantage; keep this shit up man, love it! ❤🔥
Thank you for the great tutorial. Be interested to hear if you (or anyone else here) have any particular strategies for dealing with interference and noise. It seems to be pretty much absent throughout this vid.
back years ago I used to use physical amps and pedals ect. Never had a problem recording with active pick ups until trying to use an amp plug in. Can't get it to not clip. I've tried everything I can think of to get it not to clip. I use a Focusrite 3rd gen 2 channel interface. Maybe I need an interface with a better pre amp. Any ideas?
Hi Keyan, i have the same Juggernaut evertune 7 guitar that you have showed in other videos, I want to set it up on Drop E, i don't know if buying a 74-13 string gauge or a 80-11 strings for Drop E. Any advice? I know 74 is a little bit thinner but i dont' know if the 80 gauge is going to affect my tone. I hope you can help me. (Sorry for my bad english, greetings from Chile!)
Hey guys, i just got the Fortin Nameless Suite and tried to use Keyans Preset „The Tone“ for some Recording. Turns out i somehow have problems with the noisegate setting he is using.. it seems like its gripping so fast, that playing single-note lead riffs is not possible without losing a big piece of the sound. Can somebody explain to me, what the reason for this could be? I am using the scarlet 2i2 dialed in just so, that the input does not turn green. My guitar is an EC 1000 with emg 81 pickups. Thanks alot! Keep riffin🤘🏼
Honestly, the "stock" tone at 0:45 is what I've been preferring lately. Simple and natural. In your own words, you like a sterile tone, so I guess that's where we differ. I'm over guitars being sterile. 😅
Hi Keyan, Love your vids, watched you for a couple of years now! I have a video idea/suggestion: Buy a cheap entry level guitar, test it in a mix with no changes and then upgrade it with new pickups, strings, nut (whatever you can to make it sound better) and then test it in a mix, and then test one of your premium guitars in a mix. I think a lot of people don't understand how much of the sound of a guitar is just a really good tone/mix and what a couple simple upgrades could do. In my opinion, a cheap guitar with sensible upgrades can sound just as good as a premium guitar and I'd love to see you test it out! Could be an S by Solar 7 string, the Jackson JS22-7, the Ibanez Gio GRG7221QA (Loved your video with this guitar), or whatever you want, could even by a 6 string. Just an idea, if it sounds dumb or you think your Gio video already covered this extensively enough, then that's fair. But would love to see it explored a bit more. Cheers!
Soldano looks different from mine.. The EQ is different and those two extra options on the main amp interface, 'transpose' and 'doubler'. What's up with that? Have they updated or something? Amazing guitar playing. Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. 👍🏻
The new Soldano X came out. It's a free update if you just have the original plugin. Transpose pitch shifts your guitar by semitones so you can play in different tunings, and the doubler is supposed to mimic the sound of a double-tracked guitar.
@@jimmymeinhart4265 hmm, .. Don't know if I'd have much use for either of those.. But I like the low and high shelf on the eq.. Looks like maybe some new presets too. I'm gonna grab it. 👍🏻
ya know when this man says things like "that airy top end" I then listen closely and go "ooh that IS an airy top end" I then quickly remember I have no clue what I'm talking about 😂
Great video. Gonna try this approach with my recently updated Gojira and Soldano X models. One thing I'm not sure you mentioned in the Eq section was that you've applied low and hi pass filters. Unless I missed it
@@KeyanHoushmandLivemy amp sim has a high and low pass built in to the ir section, i guess this one doesnt. I also low pass way higher like at 100 to 120hz
i cant stand cab sims ,amp sims , plugins any of that computer crap it doesn't matter, its fake, for recording its killer i am sure and it sounds great, but it doesnt really transfer to real gear well. if i just recorded i would get rid of all my gear except my guitars but really would only need one because you can make any decent guitar sound like anything you want with all that computer stuff i will see a killer pedal or amp and go look for reviews and most of the reviews are with computer and IRs or whatever, why even buy the amp or pedal because you can just use the computer crap for everything, and reviews plugging into computer are ridiculous
That's it, that's the tone!
there it is
This man’s presets do kick ass
thanks king
Especially on the nameless
please more of this
ill watch every single video
There’s heaps of videos like this on the channel that go all the back to almost 5 years ago, enjoy!
Great format, great explanations on what you're doing, why you're doing it, and how it interplays with everything. I love this.
Loved the straight to the point approach.... Boom boom, peace! Great format imo!!!😎😎🎸🎸
For the soldano I dialed it in 5 seconds. Hit the Ihsahn typical lead preset and made an EP with it 😂
you are my lifesaver keyan! thank you so much!!!
Great video! Just want to add this for any newbies guitarists who want to make huge metal mixes - fix your drums first before you get into the guitar tones. In my experience first get an absolutely banging drum sound, a huge bass tone, and you're gonna sound massive no matter what the guitar tone is. Like, the drum tone is more important than the guitar tone overall in my opinion. I spent YEARS trying to make my mixes sound huge by tweaking guitars and it never worked. But then I started studying other tracks, experimenting with mix templates, drum libraries and presets, and stuff and then I realised - if your kick and snare are massive, there's a good fx chain on the master bus, and your bass is big as a rhino's arse - you really are sorted and then the guitars are like, the raw pasta and the drums and bass are the sauce. Good pasta is important but the sauce is what really makes it a dish. You can get away with having ok pasta if you have excellent sauce, not the other way around imo.
I read all of this. Thank you.
would love to see you do this with bass and parallax!
Extremely helpful, as I’m just getting into NDSP plug-ins
Glad it was helpful!
And then you try to work with it in the mix and everything falls apart
All this guy does is record for mixes so I trust this to sound fine in a mix
Thats why you record DI with it.
You HAVE heard his mixes...right?
A lot of the time you just have to move the mic a little on the cab section while the mix is playin and the guitar will magically fit right in
@@RayFerrettiif you record both at the same time, you can use the printed tone for playback and then save heaps of processing power and put less strain on your CPU from constantly needing to feed DIs into an amp sim every time you hit play
This is amazing, gotta try this next time. I always feel lost when doing some of this stuff, I especially find myself trying to "mix" using the EQ sometimes when I'm not happy with the starting tone yet.
I might need to pull the trigger on a couple Neural DSP plugins to take advantage of the 50% discount that's going on right now
you can always download the free trial for 14 days, you won't regret it, I have 4 plug ins now from Neural DSP
DO IT
I use this approach for all of them!
@@KeyanHoushmandLive I wish I could. The euro is way to expensive for me in my country lol. I might buy two to not break the bank
@@Guips96 Soldano X + Plini X and you're set on every tone and feature possible
I swear this video fixed my tone issue! I applied it to my physical gear and it fixed the issues I had! I know its sad but i never thought of adjusting the amp settings besides the gain... But it honestly fixed my issues!
Great video. Good Job
Idk whether I just have bad ears, terrible headphones (or both) but it's sometimes really difficult for me to discern the difference between the subtle tweaks he's making along the way to shape the overall tone.
Stuff feels like magic ✨
He is going very fast and also knows exactly what he is listening for so I wouldn't worry too much if you can't notice it. You can for sure train your ears more and your listening device makes a huge difference
He's making subtle differences to an already good tone. When the amp is good to begin with only slight sculpting is needed.
He's set this up pretty much exactly how I do my 5150 with a 10 band in the loop.
Look at this way he is doing things that individually change like 2-5% of the tone, and on its own that component can be hard discern but with years of messing around you notice them more and more but even so it’s such a small adjustment he is making. Then you take into account that he has made 10 different changes to different parameters and that all make a 2-5% difference it becomes a 20-50% difference than where you started. A good amp will sound decent with most things set to the middle position and really are there for fine adjustments in most cases.
Great video Keyan! It would be super great if you would make another one with more "recent" low tunning. Like double drop D# for example. :)
Yeah man! I got a cheap 7 string Jackson last year and I'm modding it with some custom Stringjoy's and Graphtech locking tuners; still deciding on what specific amp/sim, distortion and compression pedals to get but I'm excited to get my tone sounding sick like this! I'm also a live sound engineer so I wanna use that to my advantage; keep this shit up man, love it! ❤🔥
Nice system! Trying to achieve a balance between crip picked riffs and slightly saggy palm mutes is always a challenge.
Hey keyan, what thumbuckers
do you prefer in your guitars for the type of music you play? Thx..
Do you deal with the input level? What kind of interface do you use?
Thank you for the great tutorial. Be interested to hear if you (or anyone else here) have any particular strategies for dealing with interference and noise. It seems to be pretty much absent throughout this vid.
back years ago I used to use physical amps and pedals ect.
Never had a problem recording with active pick ups until trying to use an amp plug in. Can't get it to not clip. I've tried everything I can think of to get it not to clip.
I use a Focusrite 3rd gen 2 channel interface. Maybe I need an interface with a better pre amp. Any ideas?
We have a very similar approach in dialing tone
Hi Keyan, i have the same Juggernaut evertune 7 guitar that you have showed in other videos, I want to set it up on Drop E, i don't know if buying a 74-13 string gauge or a 80-11 strings for Drop E. Any advice? I know 74 is a little bit thinner but i dont' know if the 80 gauge is going to affect my tone. I hope you can help me. (Sorry for my bad english, greetings from Chile!)
Hey guys, i just got the Fortin Nameless Suite and tried to use Keyans Preset „The Tone“ for some Recording. Turns out i somehow have problems with the noisegate setting he is using.. it seems like its gripping so fast, that playing single-note lead riffs is not possible without losing a big piece of the sound. Can somebody explain to me, what the reason for this could be? I am using the scarlet 2i2 dialed in just so, that the input does not turn green.
My guitar is an EC 1000 with emg 81 pickups.
Thanks alot!
Keep riffin🤘🏼
Sick
broo i'm speechless... in this video is amazing. that's also show us, how can we save more time . SUB
he is right, purple does in fact sound the best!
Timing of this vid is perfect for me. Happen to be dialing in a digital soldano also
Nice! Glad to hear it dude
What should I do if I can't change the amp's color to purple ?
You know the tone is gonna be fire when that amp skin changes
Honestly, the "stock" tone at 0:45 is what I've been preferring lately. Simple and natural. In your own words, you like a sterile tone, so I guess that's where we differ. I'm over guitars being sterile. 😅
Hi Keyan, Love your vids, watched you for a couple of years now!
I have a video idea/suggestion: Buy a cheap entry level guitar, test it in a mix with no changes and then upgrade it with new pickups, strings, nut (whatever you can to make it sound better) and then test it in a mix, and then test one of your premium guitars in a mix. I think a lot of people don't understand how much of the sound of a guitar is just a really good tone/mix and what a couple simple upgrades could do. In my opinion, a cheap guitar with sensible upgrades can sound just as good as a premium guitar and I'd love to see you test it out!
Could be an S by Solar 7 string, the Jackson JS22-7, the Ibanez Gio GRG7221QA (Loved your video with this guitar), or whatever you want, could even by a 6 string.
Just an idea, if it sounds dumb or you think your Gio video already covered this extensively enough, then that's fair. But would love to see it explored a bit more. Cheers!
Soldano looks different from mine.. The EQ is different and those two extra options on the main amp interface, 'transpose' and 'doubler'. What's up with that? Have they updated or something? Amazing guitar playing. Wish I knew how to do all that stuff. 👍🏻
The new Soldano X came out. It's a free update if you just have the original plugin. Transpose pitch shifts your guitar by semitones so you can play in different tunings, and the doubler is supposed to mimic the sound of a double-tracked guitar.
@@jimmymeinhart4265 hmm, .. Don't know if I'd have much use for either of those.. But I like the low and high shelf on the eq.. Looks like maybe some new presets too. I'm gonna grab it. 👍🏻
Is this on standard tuning?
Nice dialing. What tuning are you in?
Drop C#
Peace!
My amp doesn't have a purple skin. What do I do now?
Sell all your guitars and give up
@@KeyanHoushmandLive :(
HANDS DOWN. THE BEST TUTORIAL.
ya know when this man says things like "that airy top end" I then listen closely and go "ooh that IS an airy top end" I then quickly remember I have no clue what I'm talking about 😂
Great video. Gonna try this approach with my recently updated Gojira and Soldano X models. One thing I'm not sure you mentioned in the Eq section was that you've applied low and hi pass filters. Unless I missed it
He did mention it at the beginning of the EQ section, although it was only brief
Next, do it with beginner electric guitar
You should lowpass and high pass in the ir section
3:42
@@KeyanHoushmandLivemy amp sim has a high and low pass built in to the ir section, i guess this one doesnt. I also low pass way higher like at 100 to 120hz
Hi pass, sure
Low pass? Not always
me 5 seconds in....... "you can change the WHAT?!"
sounds like Pulse rhythm tone
Good ears, I used the Soldano for that song!
#tuning in vid?
Drop C#
Use “The Tone” in the Fortnite amp
bro said fortnite amp
@@joederbyshire_ 🤣🤣
its funny, when just a random youtube guy hear the difference bellow 0,5dB when eq
This doesn't carry over to the Fortin Nameless Suite X at all.
Too many knobs! Jeeez
scoop the mids, ALL THE GAIN. takes you 2 seconds. you're welcome
Why Keyan reversed
You okay bro? You look a bit tired 😂
Sounds like landmvrks
I believe they used this plugin for “Lost In A Wave,” so you’re pretty on point with that.
You need a fender on (or) a single coil to have that sound
Just pick presets only, problem solved
0:45 you zero in guitar playing, you can't mute without noises😁👎👎
0:45 you zero in guitar playing, you can't finish sound without finger noises 👎👎
Plugins are shit
The arrogance of this guy in this video makes him impossible to watch .🤮🤮🤮
You’re high
i cant stand cab sims ,amp sims , plugins any of that computer crap it doesn't matter, its fake, for recording its killer i am sure and it sounds great, but it doesnt really transfer to real gear well. if i just recorded i would get rid of all my gear except my guitars but really would only need one because you can make any decent guitar sound like anything you want with all that computer stuff
i will see a killer pedal or amp and go look for reviews and most of the reviews are with computer and IRs or whatever, why even buy the amp or pedal because you can just use the computer crap for everything, and reviews plugging into computer are ridiculous
Okay
Old man finds out about plugins and modelers what's new
@@broidk2391 😂"Computer crap"
That's good tone! Coming from a die hard tube guy.
Thanks for watching!