You can get massive sounding guitars many different ways, bass is a big ones yes you are correct. The way I have always done it is by quad tracking and taking 1 set and panning them 80 percent, take the next set and do 20-30. Granted quad tracking is a pain in the ass however it will give you this massive wall of sound that just hits you especially when you go to mix it. Trust me it works. Not sure if Glen is willing to back me on this or not but I always quad track in stereo due to his advise and it has helped me get a super massive sound. Oh and please for the love of God don't multi track record, it doesn't work it will all sound like it's still in the center of your phones.
I can’t seem to get the bass to translate from my monitors to other speakers. I end up with way to much bass in the mix and I use bass guitar libraries. I do have some acoustic panels set up in the studio which I though would help.
Awesome tutorial as always, Glenn. Love the top end on the Tegeler EQP1. :D Thank you ever so much for reminding me of that legendary Klark review. I never laughed more at a gear review in my life!
Glen, I just want you to know, your videos have helped me get through so many rough times in my life. When things take a turn for the worst, I always find happiness watching your videos. They are always funny and put a smile on my face. That’s all
What I'm missing from this video is an accurate explanation of *why* this works so much better than anything else. Sure, endorsing a good product is fine. But maybe digging a little deeper would give people the information they need to replicate the effect for even less money.
The first time I heard Passion and Warfare, I was blown away, not just by Steve Vai’s playing, but the CD sounded better than any CD I heard up to that time.
It's nice that it's much more within reach for the mixers, but I really like that you show us what your doing with it as well. That way we can at least emulate it with current gear/plugins we have.
For Reaper users , Tukan makes some good Pultec EQ's. For Other DAW's Ignite Amps makes a pretty good free Pultec too. That 30Hz boost/cut trick is cool on guitars.
Glenn!!! thank so much for this, is great to see the tools than can create something like that, even if they are a bit out of reach for a lot of us, with videos like this we know what we can aim for in terms of sound and if possible hardware, cheers man!
I just tried this trick today on a new single im working on (don't have a hardware unit but I tried it in Reaper with the Tukan Studios EQT-2KAN Pultec plugin) and it was exactly what my guitars needed to pop out in the mix and not get buried behind the bass and kick drum! Thanks for this Glen! 🤘😁🤘
I would like to mention that Ignite Amps has a Pultec Eq plugin called the PTEq-X. It sounds great and is 100% absolutely free. It's been living on my drum buss for years.
I listen to TH-cam on a complete higher end home stereo system with a powered sub fed from my PC with a fairly decent sound card...holy fuck Glenn your mixes are stuff of legend! Sound so big and proud...I like it!
Nice! I do the same type of EQ moves on my mixes, but I will often use API to do the mids and neve for the high end stuff. That being said, the pultec/tegler sounds great as well, i sometimes use the 30hz trick. But always end up with API 560 i feel like it can give more ‘bite’ on subtle boosts in some areas and it can still carve out the low mids i dont’ want. Nice Euro Trip reference at the end too! “In BERLIN”😂. Such an underrated movie.
The Tegeler Creme tube EQ section looks pretty nice too. The high band and the low band are the real secret sauce, and a VCA buss compressor is always useful.
Wow! Great vid and examples. Glenn, can you please do a follow up of what you did for the bass in these same exact song examples. The guitars sound amazing, and now seeing what you did to make them work so perfectly with the bass is your real secret sauce! Thanks again Glenn!
A paramteric EQ is an absolute must in any recording environment. Learning the difference between what the adjustments do on a parametric and a graphic EQ is paramount. I even still keep a parametric in my live rig. It's an old Rocktron Pro-Q, but it works for a live situation. My main rig is an Axe-FX, but there is an analog guitar amp in the rig that has the Pro-Q in loop and at the ready in case the Axe takes a dump.
When i were a lad we had a pultec eq at the studio i had access to. Got some of the best bass sounds ever using that as my preamp. I was rather shocked a few years later when I tried to buy one for myself (and it cost more than twice my car). I've been chasing that sound ever since.
Very impressive sounds and a great demo of quite how extreme the settings can be on these beasts without harshness. Very minor point of pedantry: the high boost is always a bell, albeit sometimes a very wide one, but it isn't a shelf. I DIYed a stereo pair of these, along with a pair of MEQ5s that are all about midrange. Why does that design get so little love on guitar, I wonder?
3:30 Oh no please, don't waste some useable things like that... The ground could maybe host some plants, now it's polluted with KT crap, Jeez Glenn... Jokes aside, thanks for the tips !
The more I watch your vids and the more I listen to my favorite records, the more i realize that i really don't need anything more than my laptop and interface. To my (not trained) ears, simplicity seems to be key. 2 tracks for my guitar, bass ran through a high gain amp, and good drum programs. I do punk/goth metal.
Steve Vai's Pultecs... he borrowed them from Frank Zappa while he was mixing Flexable and Flexable Leftovers... and asked the estate if he could keep them. Sounds massive.
All these plugins do the Pultec trick, hope some of you find it useful: Analog Obsession Rare, RareSE, and FrankCS, Boz Digital Bark of Dog, Variety of Sound FlavourMTC, Audio Assault IQ505, Ignite Amps PTEq-X, TDR SlickEQ GE, Dead Duck Software DD Channel and DD Equalizer, and Purafied Audio VU Compressor if you max out the low end.
Glenn, what do you think about Pultec clones without tube in 500 series modules, like Wes Audio _Prometheus ? I never tried original Pultec, only this one
@@SpectreSoundStudios I’ve been playing for around 10 years and it’s honestly beat every guitar I owned I am super suprised how well it stays in tune and the playability on it and it’s super badass looking w the color changing paint!
Glenn, in one of your shows you mentioned cleaving low end on everything to eliminate low end clutter. Can you give us a thorough walk through of this process. I suffer from low end clutter. When I go in and start cleaving it from guitars etc my mic sounds worse …..
I’d recommend not going any higher than 80hz with your HPF, and adjusting the slope. You really want a little bit of low end in guitars because it makes them sound so much bigger, you just don’t want them blending with the bass in a way that sounds muddy. Your problem might also be in the low mids and not the actual low end, like see if there’s too much ~200hz in your drums, bass, and guitars that is building up. 500hz is another range that I take a lot out of drums pretty regularly, usually adds a lot of clarity to everything.
Interestingly enough, rap producers have been using this trick on 808 kicks for a couple decades now. Boost & cut the same frequency with a Pultech, no other EQ does it but it's like it takes away the bad stuff at that frequency and replaces it with pultech goodness
Analogue Obsession Rare, RareSE, and FrankCS, Boz Digital Bark of Dog, Variety of Sound FlavourMTC, Audio Assault IQ505, Ignite Amps PTEq-X, TDR SlickEQ GE, Dead Duck Software DD Channel and DD Equalizer, and Purafied Audio VU Compressor if you max out the low end.
@Jake_Sachs I'm all in on warm audio mostly because of price. But I'm still in the middle of building my studio from the ground up (building included). I just hope I'm not disappointed with my decision
Hey Glenn. Great stuff... I was wondering what your thoughts were on the BBE Sonic Maximiser. I've used the same one since 1996 and made a huge improvement with my sound. I love it. What's your take?
i'd ask about Latency/Phasing issues between the software & Hardware processors; but it's an Analog Eq ... precise phase shifting is kinda key to the sound. i don't expect a *bypass* Null test; just wondering how good Analog Inserts are from one DAW to the next. also, if it's a fixed recipe , why not do it when Tracking , before going into Digital ? too big a commitment ? yes, it does sound Massive, btw. congrats !
I love you Glen, but I gotta admit I got a stereo pair of the kts next to my chameleon labs gear 😂 I think you got a really bad qa unit but I tube swapped mine and they sound good now, but before swap mine sounded radically different than yours did. For tinkerers and modders the kts are nice to use as a platform to modify. Even if you just keep the enclosure and pots it's cheaper than a pultec reproduction empty enclosure you can put new guts in. The kt76 is the best of them and it's nearly inaudible to a friends mc77 isolated tracks. 2a is almost unusable without an optocell swap tho. I got the igs cell to swap in.
This is one of the few things that I wish I had room for a physical version instead of the plugin. Really tuning the boost and attenuation is difficult with just one mouse cursor. I mean a midi controller works fine too, but man i reach for this type of EQ so often.
Damn.. 0:50 I closed my eyes... and couldn't hear much of a difference!? (NS10s and headphones..) ... should I be worried about my hearing? [edit 6:17, ok THAT I can hear!]
It’s a pretty subtle difference, not extreme like the later examples. The rhythm guitars just get a little boost in clarity and become more apparent in the mix. You don’t need to get your hearing checked though haha
@@DerSilvano I heard the effect and it does change the signal, but in a similar way as this hardware or plug in. But ears are funny and not everyone hears everything the same. I did manage to bypass the BBE SM fad though!
Fortunately, there are numerous software clones of The Pultec for those of us not so well heeled. :) The Waves PuigTec is my personal fave. But I have messed around with PTEq-X from Ignite/STL Tones. It's a freebie, but it sounds pretty dang good. In a mix, I'll be it would be hard to distinguish a difference.
Hello! I just played a modelling amp for the first time, a Fractal…Something…and thought it sounded pretty good, and wondered if you could recommend a cheaper, but good quality alternative? I’ve seen videos on here on the Quad Cortex etc, but am looking for a simpler (if possible) alternative for home use and recording. I’ve mainly been a tube amp guy using a Suhr Reactive Load IR, so the simpler, the better!
Thanks for this video, but I'm noticing that this is another consecutive Monday without any mix reviews. I understand that you've been busy, but I'm starting to worry. I have a Fryette P-50-E that I put a screwdriver through AND have an Eminence DV77... that's on backorder... and (hopefully) I'll have a timeline on both by mid-week. But I'm planning on having you check my mixes so I can be better than I am now. Are the mix reviews coming back, or will I have to go to someone who doesn't wear Robotech shirts? Seriously, can you put up some links? Those shirts are awesome!
My comment doesn't really fall under recording, so I don't really expect an answer or explanation, but I'm having an issue with playback. The issue is the vocalist is getting drowned out by the rest of the instruments. This is happening with actual songs like "Love?" from Strapping Young Lad, and I've spent hours with my computer's EQ and sound settings. I started to think my problem is my hardware. I'm using an older pair of BOSS headphones, and never really had an issue for years, till now. I'm just confused with the who situation haha.
You may be suffering Tarja syndrome. In Nightwish, the songwriter had to write around the frequencies the singer would sing so she wasn't buried. to find out, see what frequencies your vocalist is using, just murder-cut all the instruments at those frequencies. Then slowly bring them back in and see if that is the issue.
Sounds like you're missing some of the "mid" and getting more "side". First thing I'd check is that your headphones are plugged all the way in. Then, make sure any atmospheric effects on your computer are turned off (e.g. "spatializer" or "wide soundstage" or any other such nonsense). Those effects turn down the "mid" (where the vocals sit) and boost the "side" to make the soundstage seem wider. It boosts the difference between the two channels while suppressing what's the same between the two (but with a HPF so the bass isn't turned down). You might also try a different set of headphones to troubleshoot. Are you using your computer's internal soundcard/headphone jack on your laptop/etc? or an external interface?
@@SpectreSoundStudios thanks, later in the video I could tell a difference (not $4,000 worth of difference tho). The 1st sample sounded the same.........either way it still sounds killer.
I've been working in something I found interesting, what do you think about using a delay with 0 feedback that puts your main signal 100% on one side and the delay on the other side with only 13-15ms apart? I found it really cool while doing music with only one guitar
What about warm audio’s version that’s like $700? Any experience with that one? I always hear great things about their products and they’re usually reasonably priced.
@@SpectreSoundStudios Hey, thats still far cheaper then the real pultec! As long as its good quality and it does the thing, it seems like a reasonable alternative.
Mostly unrelated question. Can you ( or someone) recommend a course or resource for someone that is super dumbed down. I am completely blind walking into walls with the DAWs I have tried. (Reaper and Audacity of that matters) the "beginner" courses found for software are still beyond me.
my "secret" of huge guitars has always been a well played and mixed bass with fresh strings, that's for sure.
A clean, well-played bass is a MUST! Most overlooked part of the mix that even professionals fail to execute.
That's a GIGANTIC part of it, no doubt.
You can get massive sounding guitars many different ways, bass is a big ones yes you are correct. The way I have always done it is by quad tracking and taking 1 set and panning them 80 percent, take the next set and do 20-30. Granted quad tracking is a pain in the ass however it will give you this massive wall of sound that just hits you especially when you go to mix it. Trust me it works. Not sure if Glen is willing to back me on this or not but I always quad track in stereo due to his advise and it has helped me get a super massive sound. Oh and please for the love of God don't multi track record, it doesn't work it will all sound like it's still in the center of your phones.
I can’t seem to get the bass to translate from my monitors to other speakers. I end up with way to much bass in the mix and I use bass guitar libraries. I do have some acoustic panels set up in the studio which I though would help.
@numanuma20 bass traps? Also, speaker dampers (foam pads) help tremendously and setting your speakers at the correct angle and height.
While this is still out of reach for a lot of us, the barrier to entry on things like this is coming down, and we should all be happy for that,
Awesome tutorial as always, Glenn. Love the top end on the Tegeler EQP1. :D Thank you ever so much for reminding me of that legendary Klark review. I never laughed more at a gear review in my life!
It’s Krap Teknik or nothing!!! :)
Phenomenal video. The wealth of knowledge you share on a regular basis is unbelievable. Thanks Glenn!
Glen,
I just want you to know, your videos have helped me get through so many rough times in my life. When things take a turn for the worst, I always find happiness watching your videos. They are always funny and put a smile on my face. That’s all
Glad to help!
¡Gracias!
What I'm missing from this video is an accurate explanation of *why* this works so much better than anything else. Sure, endorsing a good product is fine. But maybe digging a little deeper would give people the information they need to replicate the effect for even less money.
The first time I heard Passion and Warfare, I was blown away, not just by Steve Vai’s playing, but the CD sounded better than any CD I heard up to that time.
It's nice that it's much more within reach for the mixers, but I really like that you show us what your doing with it as well. That way we can at least emulate it with current gear/plugins we have.
For Reaper users , Tukan makes some good Pultec EQ's. For Other DAW's Ignite Amps makes a pretty good free Pultec too. That 30Hz boost/cut trick is cool on guitars.
The standard PulEQ in Reaper does the job quite fine if you gain stage it properly. It is working pretty perfectly fot the 40hz trick also.
@@rayduekington6365 just found this and tried it out, sounds amazing! Thanks for pointing this out dude!
@@rayduekington6365 What's that fx?
Cool stuff, im gonna work on my recording tone tonight. Those examples sounded massive soo thick and bassy but still defined and unmuddy 🤘🏽
Glenn!!! thank so much for this, is great to see the tools than can create something like that, even if they are a bit out of reach for a lot of us, with videos like this we know what we can aim for in terms of sound and if possible hardware, cheers man!
I just tried this trick today on a new single im working on (don't have a hardware unit but I tried it in Reaper with the Tukan Studios EQT-2KAN Pultec plugin) and it was exactly what my guitars needed to pop out in the mix and not get buried behind the bass and kick drum! Thanks for this Glen! 🤘😁🤘
I would like to mention that Ignite Amps has a Pultec Eq plugin called the PTEq-X. It sounds great and is 100% absolutely free. It's been living on my drum buss for years.
Nice, I’m gonna go download that right now
Absolutely this. I've started using this very plugin recently. It's free and it is amazing.
It's so clear, thanks Glenn, gets a tab better once the bong is down and turn the mix up lol
Love these short tutorials Glenn. So much great information packed into a few minutes. Thank!!
Definitly ,you are my fav music youtuber ,ever. Help me a lot for my cover ,love from France !
For everyone that needs info on how to make their recordings better, your videos are gold, thank you!
Amazing stuff man! Love that "thick" sound. Pretty mighty bass tone you got going on too!
I listen to TH-cam on a complete higher end home stereo system with a powered sub fed from my PC with a fairly decent sound card...holy fuck Glenn your mixes are stuff of legend! Sound so big and proud...I like it!
Thank you so much!
@@SpectreSoundStudios you're welcome dude...just love the sound of the music from this channel, always killer quality sound.
Nice! I do the same type of EQ moves on my mixes, but I will often use API to do the mids and neve for the high end stuff. That being said, the pultec/tegler sounds great as well, i sometimes use the 30hz trick. But always end up with API 560 i feel like it can give more ‘bite’ on subtle boosts in some areas and it can still carve out the low mids i dont’ want.
Nice Euro Trip reference at the end too! “In BERLIN”😂. Such an underrated movie.
Because you use the right pickups and the right tubes! 🤣🤣😂😂🤘🤘 Nice work dude! Nice tone!
😆
The Tegeler Creme tube EQ section looks pretty nice too. The high band and the low band are the real secret sauce, and a VCA buss compressor is always useful.
Same shirt in this vid as the one in the Klark Teknik vid. +1 for consistency.
It works on some sources but scooping the mids post amp or post cab achieves a similar effect.
Awesome video as always. Thanks for sharing your wisdom dude ⚡️
Thanks Glenn.
Wow! Great vid and examples. Glenn, can you please do a follow up of what you did for the bass in these same exact song examples. The guitars sound amazing, and now seeing what you did to make them work so perfectly with the bass is your real secret sauce! Thanks again Glenn!
00:07:00- ish - Well, that concept just blew the minds of most guitarists out there 😂
A paramteric EQ is an absolute must in any recording environment. Learning the difference between what the adjustments do on a parametric and a graphic EQ is paramount.
I even still keep a parametric in my live rig. It's an old Rocktron Pro-Q, but it works for a live situation. My main rig is an Axe-FX, but there is an analog guitar amp in the rig that has the Pro-Q in loop and at the ready in case the Axe takes a dump.
When i were a lad we had a pultec eq at the studio i had access to. Got some of the best bass sounds ever using that as my preamp. I was rather shocked a few years later when I tried to buy one for myself (and it cost more than twice my car). I've been chasing that sound ever since.
Very impressive sounds and a great demo of quite how extreme the settings can be on these beasts without harshness. Very minor point of pedantry: the high boost is always a bell, albeit sometimes a very wide one, but it isn't a shelf.
I DIYed a stereo pair of these, along with a pair of MEQ5s that are all about midrange. Why does that design get so little love on guitar, I wonder?
3:30 Oh no please, don't waste some useable things like that...
The ground could maybe host some plants, now it's polluted with KT crap, Jeez Glenn...
Jokes aside, thanks for the tips !
The riff at 8:06 is f’n sick.
The more I watch your vids and the more I listen to my favorite records, the more i realize that i really don't need anything more than my laptop and interface. To my (not trained) ears, simplicity seems to be key. 2 tracks for my guitar, bass ran through a high gain amp, and good drum programs. I do punk/goth metal.
Glenn: It can’t just be all guitar all the time
Half the people here: aw come on why not
That compression is sweet!
Steve Vai's Pultecs... he borrowed them from Frank Zappa while he was mixing Flexable and Flexable Leftovers... and asked the estate if he could keep them. Sounds massive.
“Can’t be all guitar all the time”…most savage truth bomb Glenn ever dropped
🤣🤣🤣
All these plugins do the Pultec trick, hope some of you find it useful: Analog Obsession Rare, RareSE, and FrankCS, Boz Digital Bark of Dog, Variety of Sound FlavourMTC, Audio Assault IQ505, Ignite Amps PTEq-X, TDR SlickEQ GE, Dead Duck Software DD Channel and DD Equalizer, and Purafied Audio VU Compressor if you max out the low end.
It’s all about the midrange. There’s a reason the tube screamer is so popular.
Glenn, what do you think about Pultec clones without tube in 500 series modules, like Wes Audio _Prometheus ? I never tried original Pultec, only this one
The Prometheus is awesome. I actually think solid-state Pultecs sound better on the mixbus than tube Pultecs. But that's just me.
I see that was the first time you ever swung a sledge hammer.
YES!!! It was on Passion & Warfare Whoooooo Hoooooooo Yeah!!! 😃
That Black County Customs IO Boost always does the thing!
Glen ur the reason why I got my Ltd arrow I trust everything that u say thanks man
How do you like that Arrow?
@@SpectreSoundStudios I’ve been playing for around 10 years and it’s honestly beat every guitar I owned I am super suprised how well it stays in tune and the playability on it and it’s super badass looking w the color changing paint!
@@SpectreSoundStudios would love to see u review a ESP custom shop that would b badass!
This thumbnail was much more captive.
Glenn, in one of your shows you mentioned cleaving low end on everything to eliminate low end clutter.
Can you give us a thorough walk through of this process.
I suffer from low end clutter. When I go in and start cleaving it from guitars etc my mic sounds worse …..
I’d recommend not going any higher than 80hz with your HPF, and adjusting the slope. You really want a little bit of low end in guitars because it makes them sound so much bigger, you just don’t want them blending with the bass in a way that sounds muddy. Your problem might also be in the low mids and not the actual low end, like see if there’s too much ~200hz in your drums, bass, and guitars that is building up. 500hz is another range that I take a lot out of drums pretty regularly, usually adds a lot of clarity to everything.
i wonder how the IGS RB500 stacks up against this or even the warm audio EQP-WA. thanks for the killer vid glenn.
Why change the thumbnail? Curious as to why you got rid of the one with the Solar guitar
What is the song at 0:51 and where can I get it?!
Interestingly enough, rap producers have been using this trick on 808 kicks for a couple decades now. Boost & cut the same frequency with a Pultech, no other EQ does it but it's like it takes away the bad stuff at that frequency and replaces it with pultech goodness
Glenn: turns off eq but it still sounds awesome, then turns back on the eq to make it still awesome
Me: bugger, I still suck!
It was when the smashed device was raised above your head, full roar, that I remembered to click like!
Holy shit a Savatage t-shirt in an SMG video. Let's go!
GLENN!!! What would be a plug-in alternative to the Tegeler for the engineers who are on an even tighter budget?
Analogue Obsession Rare, RareSE, and FrankCS, Boz Digital Bark of Dog, Variety of Sound FlavourMTC, Audio Assault IQ505, Ignite Amps PTEq-X, TDR SlickEQ GE, Dead Duck Software DD Channel and DD Equalizer, and Purafied Audio VU Compressor if you max out the low end.
@@EvilBlakey Wow. Thanks. That's a lot of options. Any recommendation? Obviously for heavy guitar riffs/parts.
What do you think about Warm Audio's version of the pultec?
Ever wondered why I’ve never put them on my show?
@@SpectreSoundStudios That bad?
I have a pair that I keep on my mix bus and I love them. I know other people love them too, but I guess Glenn just didn't like them
@Jake_Sachs I'm all in on warm audio mostly because of price. But I'm still in the middle of building my studio from the ground up (building included). I just hope I'm not disappointed with my decision
If guitars in your mixes sound massive then I'm the Pope
Hey Glenn. Great stuff... I was wondering what your thoughts were on the BBE Sonic Maximiser. I've used the same one since 1996 and made a huge improvement with my sound. I love it. What's your take?
I like his mixes and his modesty...
i'd ask about Latency/Phasing issues between the software & Hardware processors;
but it's an Analog Eq ... precise phase shifting is kinda key to the sound.
i don't expect a *bypass* Null test; just wondering how good Analog Inserts are from one DAW to the next.
also, if it's a fixed recipe , why not do it when Tracking , before going into Digital ?
too big a commitment ?
yes, it does sound Massive, btw.
congrats !
Im guessing on this one but is it because you don't record with a Gibson?
😂
Bass makes the guitars sound massive.
room verb is essential, an EQ is a polishing mean
I love you Glen, but I gotta admit I got a stereo pair of the kts next to my chameleon labs gear 😂 I think you got a really bad qa unit but I tube swapped mine and they sound good now, but before swap mine sounded radically different than yours did.
For tinkerers and modders the kts are nice to use as a platform to modify. Even if you just keep the enclosure and pots it's cheaper than a pultec reproduction empty enclosure you can put new guts in.
The kt76 is the best of them and it's nearly inaudible to a friends mc77 isolated tracks. 2a is almost unusable without an optocell swap tho. I got the igs cell to swap in.
I swapped tubes in mine. They weren’t the problem.
So you’re using that on the guitar bus?
Have you tried comparing these settings in the waves pultec plugin?
This is one of the few things that I wish I had room for a physical version instead of the plugin. Really tuning the boost and attenuation is difficult with just one mouse cursor. I mean a midi controller works fine too, but man i reach for this type of EQ so often.
Damn.. 0:50 I closed my eyes... and couldn't hear much of a difference!? (NS10s and headphones..) ... should I be worried about my hearing? [edit 6:17, ok THAT I can hear!]
i don't either
It’s a pretty subtle difference, not extreme like the later examples. The rhythm guitars just get a little boost in clarity and become more apparent in the mix. You don’t need to get your hearing checked though haha
There u go
Kind of does what the BBE Sonic Maximizer used to do way back in the day.
@@DerSilvano I heard the effect and it does change the signal, but in a similar way as this hardware or plug in. But ears are funny and not everyone hears everything the same. I did manage to bypass the BBE SM fad though!
Fortunately, there are numerous software clones of The Pultec for those of us not so well heeled. :) The Waves PuigTec is my personal fave. But I have messed around with PTEq-X from Ignite/STL Tones. It's a freebie, but it sounds pretty dang good. In a mix, I'll be it would be hard to distinguish a difference.
Review the new Triad 7 from Schechter! I want to know if the triple-bucker is worth it or does anything new or special!
The kind of equalization can be easily replicated with McDSP plugin EQ's (been using McDSP for 20+ years now).
It's because he has them set to W for wumbo, instead of M for mini.
Hello! I just played a modelling amp for the first time, a Fractal…Something…and thought it sounded pretty good, and wondered if you could recommend a cheaper, but good quality alternative? I’ve seen videos on here on the Quad Cortex etc, but am looking for a simpler (if possible) alternative for home use and recording. I’ve mainly been a tube amp guy using a Suhr Reactive Load IR, so the simpler, the better!
Can you do a review of the disruptor amp sim?
Why does your guitar sound great? Because your BASS sounds great!
Thanks for this video, but I'm noticing that this is another consecutive Monday without any mix reviews. I understand that you've been busy, but I'm starting to worry. I have a Fryette P-50-E that I put a screwdriver through AND have an Eminence DV77... that's on backorder... and (hopefully) I'll have a timeline on both by mid-week. But I'm planning on having you check my mixes so I can be better than I am now. Are the mix reviews coming back, or will I have to go to someone who doesn't wear Robotech shirts?
Seriously, can you put up some links? Those shirts are awesome!
Mix reviews should be back next Monday. Was traveling & trying to get back to my regular schedule
@@SpectreSoundStudios Thanks, bro. Living in Barstow, there's really nothing else to look forward to! 😉
@@SpectreSoundStudios Tonight, he asked hopefully, as Barstow REALLY has no culture to speak of. I mean, yogurt comes here to commit su**ide.
Seems like I had a sticker of pulse tech from the 80's it was a tank with a laser barrel.
Didnt it say pulse tech built like a tank?
Big oval sticker
What about the Warm tube EQ?
Hey Glenn, Are there any plug-ins that do the exact same thing as your pultec.
Do you still use additional EQ (like specific notching)? If so, before or after the pultec?
Glenn during your time in London did you visit Abbey road
My comment doesn't really fall under recording, so I don't really expect an answer or explanation, but I'm having an issue with playback. The issue is the vocalist is getting drowned out by the rest of the instruments. This is happening with actual songs like "Love?" from Strapping Young Lad, and I've spent hours with my computer's EQ and sound settings. I started to think my problem is my hardware. I'm using an older pair of BOSS headphones, and never really had an issue for years, till now. I'm just confused with the who situation haha.
You may be suffering Tarja syndrome. In Nightwish, the songwriter had to write around the frequencies the singer would sing so she wasn't buried. to find out, see what frequencies your vocalist is using, just murder-cut all the instruments at those frequencies. Then slowly bring them back in and see if that is the issue.
Sounds like you're missing some of the "mid" and getting more "side". First thing I'd check is that your headphones are plugged all the way in. Then, make sure any atmospheric effects on your computer are turned off (e.g. "spatializer" or "wide soundstage" or any other such nonsense). Those effects turn down the "mid" (where the vocals sit) and boost the "side" to make the soundstage seem wider. It boosts the difference between the two channels while suppressing what's the same between the two (but with a HPF so the bass isn't turned down). You might also try a different set of headphones to troubleshoot. Are you using your computer's internal soundcard/headphone jack on your laptop/etc? or an external interface?
Are there plugins that come somewhat close?
What would you recommend for a general plugin suite, as opposed to getting them one at a time?
8:05 DAT BASS TONE BRUH 🤤🤤🤤🤤🤤
In the thumbnail, you remind me of a Metal Mona Lisa.
The only thing that Klark unit equalizes is fury.
My playing skills suck and my guitars are cheap and nasty. I'm gonna need to buy a Pultec.
What about Basses?
Maybe its just youtube or my headphones (Plantronics RIG800) but I could not hear any significant difference ON vs OFF with the PULTEC
Try monitors
@@SpectreSoundStudios thanks, later in the video I could tell a difference (not $4,000 worth of difference tho). The 1st sample sounded the same.........either way it still sounds killer.
Glenn,....since you are using external rack units, how should i leave my DAW guitar track EQ and also the Amp Sim EQing ?......
All Flat ??
I guess we'll just have to dream about it Glenn.
Ask to try one for free. They’ll send it for two weeks
I needed another thing to drool over...🤤
I've been working in something I found interesting, what do you think about using a delay with 0 feedback that puts your main signal 100% on one side and the delay on the other side with only 13-15ms apart? I found it really cool while doing music with only one guitar
You’ll get better results with two tracks
How does the nic crow labs tube driver eq. Plugin stack up?
What about warm audio’s version that’s like $700? Any experience with that one? I always hear great things about their products and they’re usually reasonably priced.
That’s mono. You’d need to spend $1400 to do what this does.
@@SpectreSoundStudios Hey, thats still far cheaper then the real pultec! As long as its good quality and it does the thing, it seems like a reasonable alternative.
glenn! class a/b vs d for bass amps. does it matter?
Mostly unrelated question. Can you ( or someone) recommend a course or resource for someone that is super dumbed down. I am completely blind walking into walls with the DAWs I have tried. (Reaper and Audacity of that matters) the "beginner" courses found for software are still beyond me.
Does it mix well with long hair?