Beginner tutorial: Guitar tone, using freeware vst only.

[Flow Of Time]

I wrote a tutorial on my style of guitar tone today. Most of you won't need it, but it could be helpful for beginners:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2a4ege346m753n/gnarly_low-mids_with_a_sparkletop.pdf

Have fun with it!

 

[Mashreef]

Thanks for sharing dude

 

[Mashreef]

tube scremer part should come 1st than the amp

 

[A.H.]

tube scremer part should come 1st than the amp

Did you even read it?

 

[LBTM]

We need more people making tutorials for the basics. Congrats dude

 

[Flow Of Time]

tube scremer part should come 1st than the amp

If I'd do it that way, the gain on the amp would be on 5 while tweaking the tube screamer.. Not optimal^^

 

[Kohugaly]

Dude, there is something weird with your tutorial.... If I toggle poweramp off at step 3. all the settings related to it (presence, low end) become irrelevant at step 7. cos' it's off.

 

[LBTM]

Dude, there is something weird with your tutorial.... If I toggle poweramp off at step 3. all the settings related to it (presence, low end) become irrelevant at step 7. cos' it's off.

Exactly what I was thinking. Besides that it's a great tutorial.

@Flow Of Time take some time to edit it and it will be perfect! We would love more tutorials on the future. Will there be any?

 

[Flow Of Time]

Well, fuck... You're right of course. While I was writing the tutorial I forgot to toggle off the poweramp and did it afterwards.
I will change that in the PDF. For the time being just ignore the stuff about presence and low end unless you want to use IRs without imprinted poweramps.

Do the following for "HIGH" and "LOW":
Add a tad on the "HIGH" knob until your notes start to "shimmer".
Turn up the "LOW" knob until your lowend gets a little bit more body without beeing "boomy".

 

[Kohugaly]

How do I find out whether the impulses I use have imprinted poweramps or not? and what is the difference in the sound?

 

[Bay Studio]

How do I find out whether the impulses I use have imprinted poweramps or not? and what is the difference in the sound?

Good question!

 

[LBTM]

How do I find out whether the impulses I use have imprinted poweramps or not? and what is the difference in the sound?

Go to where you've got the impulses and search if they're passed through a power amp. The difference? There will be a tone difference depending on the power amp settings the guy who made it had. (Resonance, Presence for example in a 5150 if I'm right)

 

[plisken]

I wrote a tutorial on my style of guitar tone today. Most of you won't need it, but it could be helpful for beginners:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y2a4ege346m753n/gnarly_low-mids_with_a_sparkletop.pdf

Have fun with it!

Nice guide! but you should probably mention that X50 is windows only. There is no Mac version.

 

[lanky noob]

Nice guide! but you should probably mention that X50 is windows only. There is no Mac version.

I know this all too well
My want for a mac au 5150 ampsim gets greater ever day

 

[Bay Studio]

My want for a mac au 5150 ampsim gets greater ever day

Why don´t you go and try out Amplitube 3, it has a 5150 model in there (called 150W, you´ll notice when you see the head design with the big block letters).
Or go and try out the Peavey Revalver amp sim. Has the 6505 in there (which basically is the same as the 5150).

They both sound good, but being a real amp guy and not using amp sims, i´ve had the best results with Amplitube 3 when trying to emulate a tube (5150) sound.

 

[Flow Of Time]

Fixed.

 

[colonel kurtz]

How do I find out whether the impulses I use have imprinted poweramps or not? and what is the difference in the sound?

i could very well be wrong, but i was under the impression that any/call guitar cab IR's are going to include a power amp. since the IR is created by mic'ing a tone sweep thru a cab, you have to run thru a power amp to make the speaker physically make noise. of course, there could be some other totally different way of making IR's that i'm not familiar with, but this is how i've always known it to work.

 

[LBTM]

i could very well be wrong, but i was under the impression that any/call guitar cab IR's are going to include a power amp. since the IR is created by mic'ing a tone sweep thru a cab, you have to run thru a power amp to make the speaker physically make noise. of course, there could be some other totally different way of making IR's that i'm not familiar with, but this is how i've always known it to work.

they could be passed through a speakers' normal power amp rather than a guitar power amp. but most of the impulses you will find will be through a guitar power amp.

 

[Flow Of Time]

Redwirez and Recabinet use linear transistor poweramps for example

 

[LBTM]

@Flow Of Time instead of "(Klick on „this“ to here the sound...)" you could just underline or color "this". Also it would be great if you linked to a mix with drums and bass also.

have you thought of making more tutorials? it would be great!