Blending Multiple VST Amps..How?

[Slammer88]

Well, title says everything..Is there an easy way to blend 2 or 3 amps to achieve some kind of "unique" sound? There's an option within GR4 named Control Room, but its not that enough..Waiting for your ideas..

 

[Fredrik-Ablaze]

Well; copy the guitartrack to 2 or 3 tracks; add a different ampsim to each track, blend to taste; voila!

 

[Slammer88]

well, thats the easier way to do, which is also a pain in the ass for CPU any chance to do in "one common fx channel" lets say?

 

[Fox Mulder]

No.

 

[AeternusEternus]

Copy to each track and then freeze the track (depending on the DAW. I use Cubase). It'll apply the effect to the waveform and unload the VSTs, and when you unfreeze, it'll unapply the VST to the waveform and load it back up.

This is how I use Nebula. Two instances of it, and it starts bogging my system. So I'll load up my amp/cab sims, play my part, and freeze the track. When I want to add more, I unfreeze it. This way, there's only ever one unfrozen track.

 

[JamesNorman]

bounce the tracks then, so your cpu not being bummed!

 

[muckypup1]

bounce the tracks then, so your cpu not being bummed!

Yep, +10101010

I always bounce my guitar tracks because my CPU is so shit haha

 

[TheDriller]

Good lord,
what sort of single-core peasant shit are you guys using?

even with my gammy little q6600 i've never once needed to freeze a track.

 

[muckypup1]

Good lord,
what sort of single-core peasant shit are you guys using?

even with my gammy little q6600 i've never once needed to freeze a track.

I'm still on a embarrassing single core Pentium 4

 

[Slammer88]

well, i have a Amd X3 730, 3 cores namely, yet after lots of enabled plugins, it starts to "stutter"..

I thought this "freezing" thing only works for VSTI's..I'll give a try..

 

[SimonTaddio_Qc]

Well; copy the guitartrack to 2 or 3 tracks; add a different ampsim to each track, blend to taste; voila!

This, or you could use Aux Input.
Use your imagination, there's always a couple different ways to get to the same result, routing-wise.

 

[plague_rider]

Intel Core 2 Duo... on a Dell laptop... i've not had to "freeze" anything

 

[Slammer88]

That freeze thing in Nuendo 4(or Cubase, same thing), works only with VSTI's, sadly..

 

[ahjteam]

That freeze thing in Nuendo 4(or Cubase, same thing), works only with VSTI's, sadly..

nope, it works with track too.

 

[Slammer88]

how then?

 

[decoys]

click on the snow flake you see two times in ahjteam's pic

 

[Fox Mulder]

Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz overclocked to 3.2hgz here.
I can run upto 4 instances of POD Farm and one Ozone with no problems at all

 

[FF666]

Be careful with phase issues.
Every amp sim has different phase, even using the same sim with different gain settings.