First Nebula Test!!!

[AeternusEternus]

I just did this in Cubase using Nebula in at least one instance on drums, guitar, and bass. This is a really versatile little bastard. It's Superior 2.0, a Marshall JMP1 preamp and my own Nebula 1960A program, and a Peavey Max Bass preamp and some KeFIR bass impulse. I wish I was better at mixing, but this is enough to fool my friends.
http://www.myspoonistoobig.net/leeksneb.mp3

 

[kev]

Am i the only one who would LOVE to hear some Guitarhack´s impulses with nebula?
i am always using his impulses

Me too, i always revert to his old set. Hey which canary island are you on dude?

 

[Splat88]

I just did this in Cubase using Nebula in at least one instance on drums, guitar, and bass. This is a really versatile little bastard. It's Superior 2.0, a Marshall JMP1 preamp and my own Nebula 1960A program, and a Peavey Max Bass preamp and some KeFIR bass impulse. I wish I was better at mixing, but this is enough to fool my friends.
http://www.myspoonistoobig.net/leeksneb.mp3

Can you share that 1960A nebula file?

 

[AeternusEternus]

Can you share that 1960A nebula file?

Surely. It's 80 megs. I'm uploading it somewhere right now.

Where Marcus's first program was created with a distorted preamp session, mine was done with a clean reverb session. For anyone who doesn't know, sessions are basically templates that you have to load into NAT 3 when you sample something.

The reason I chose reverb was because I figured the closest thing to good-sounding cab programs would be by following in the footsteps of static convolution. The old-style cab impulses we've always used were close enough to the sound of cabinets, it just needed a little more. So, I went that route.

Since then, I've tried distorted reverb, distorted preamp, and one more distorted reverb, and the clean reverb is the best so far. If anyone is looking to do some sampling, I encourage you to tried clean reverb. I've only done it with 2sec.

 

[noarin]

hey AeternusEternus, nice sound.. that bass sound is cool as well; is that just a mark bass pre-amp? can you give me a link to it somewhere?
I'm definetly, getting Nebula as well.. sounds amazing guys..!

 

[AeternusEternus]

hey AeternusEternus, nice sound.. that bass sound is cool as well; is that just a mark bass pre-amp? can you give me a link to it somewhere?
I'm definetly, getting Nebula as well.. sounds amazing guys..!

It's this Peavey unit here -> http://guitargeek.com/gearview/386/

I love the little thing. I've put it up next to Ampeg SVX, the Sansamp RPM and the Sansamp RBI, and several other amps, and I really just can't get away from the Peavey. It's got a tube channel (one 12AX7) and a solid state channel, and you can select one or the other, or you can blend them. In that bass tone, though, a lot of the magic comes from KeFIR and a few bass cab impulses that I like to go back to.

I'd bet that a nice Ampeg tube preamp would dominate this Peavey, though.

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The link to the 1960A / MD421U program is here -> http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ABK3SEJ0

So, most, if not all, of my cab programs from here on out will be made with the clean reverb setting. I like the fact that I can blend my dry tone with the FX tone, because that blending factor can be really important. I really appreciate how accurate it is to the actual cab, too. It seems like that clean reverb session is the next logical step for convolution cab modelling, and everything else that comes with NAT3 is an added bonus.

You CAN get good cab sounds from other session files, as evidenced by Marcus, who is now 1 for 1 in making awesome Nebula programs. For me, though, I'm going clean reverb.

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

So any impulses can be loaded onto Nebula 3? Btw, whats the ultimate difference between 2 and 3? They seem equivalent

 

[spioraid]

So any impulses can be loaded onto Nebula 3? Btw, whats the ultimate difference between 2 and 3? They seem equivalent

32 vs 64 bit sampling difference. Check out the previous thread on procuring Nebula 3 by Metaltastic.

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Me too, i always revert to his old set. Hey which canary island are you on dude?

I live in Gran Canaria

 

[Metaltastic]

which sounds closer to the actual miced signal though?

edit: just saw you used a vst... and from looking at the pic i see no amp head, are you using some sort of generic poweramp into the cab?

Probably the impulse, since as I said, there's a lot of extra harmonic distortion cuz I guess the Nebula sampling process really tried to distort the power amp/speaker. And in the pic you'll notice the cables leading up the wall to my room, where my 2 channel Dual Rectifier was donating its power section

 

[blackbird]

AeternusEternus, thanks for the Cab! 1 question: Why the program produce signal only on the one channel? it happens when I mute the dry slider....

 

[Metaltastic]

He might not have checked the "mono" option under the deconvolve tab in the expert settings...

 

[Metaltastic]

ok, stupid riff and first test with revalver and UNTOUCHED guitars. I did nothing to them, not even LP/HP so they need some work, however I was surprised as to how good they sit in the mix right from the start, quadtracked:

http://www.keinezeit.de/mp3s/nebula/test1.mp3

I will do a full mix with some post-work soon, I dig the depth, certainly way cooler than impulses so far!

Hey Bernhard, pretty cool, though I feel the guitars are too low, the kick too boomy, and that china in the right channel MADDENING The upper harmonic distortion sounds really cool though, I dig!

 

[F.E.T]

I haven´t had the chance to try it out for myself, but a big thanks to Marcus for the time and effort he´s putting in!

 

[Metaltastic]

I just did this in Cubase using Nebula in at least one instance on drums, guitar, and bass. This is a really versatile little bastard. It's Superior 2.0, a Marshall JMP1 preamp and my own Nebula 1960A program, and a Peavey Max Bass preamp and some KeFIR bass impulse. I wish I was better at mixing, but this is enough to fool my friends.
http://www.myspoonistoobig.net/leeksneb.mp3

Pretty cool man, though I never like judging guitar tuned do drop Q cuz I feel everything sounds heavy and awesome at tunings that low

 

[AeternusEternus]

AeternusEternus, thanks for the Cab! 1 question: Why the program produce signal only on the one channel? it happens when I mute the dry slider....

Marcus was correct. I made this before I knew about the Mono checkbox. I've been using it on mono tracks and panning those left and right. It seems to work fine for that.

 

[johnnypreset]

Was intending to grab a wee copy of this, but it looks like the Acustica website has exploded. Is everybody buying this just now?

 

[Metaltastic]

Yeah, I can't access it either, hopefully they'll fix it soon!

 

[johnnypreset]

Cool cool man, I'll grab it tommorow.
Keep up the sterling work dude, ya got me all excited

 

[Sickan]

Metaltastic, you wouldn't happen to have a tubescreamer you could make an nebulaimpulse off?