Guitar Advice

[ashgallows]

Hey guys, I've been a lurker on here for quite a while and need some advice I havent yet seen posted on here.

I've found that amp sims with ir as well as a tube amp line out with ir is way too static as in the frequencies may be scooped but the chug just isnt there.
I have a 6505+ boosted going into a soldano oversized cab, but the only way It fits in here is if the bloody thing is pointed directly at me, so blaring cans in front of blaring amp doesnt make for good tonal adjustment. and to be honest the soldano doesnt sound half as good as some of the ir s minus the chug of course.

does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make this work?
Should I just break down and pay someone to reamp for me?
If so i was wondering who made this ir
it's labelled marshall 1960A T75 SM57 and the specific ir is "+1 on axis+3_01"
it's the closest one to perfection i've found and I would be interested in hitting whoever made that up for reamping in the near future.

 

[ashgallows]

any opinions?

 

[kronk_1985]

i don't really understand what you're trying to do. haha.

You want to make the Impulse tone sound like an actual cabinet? Or the other way around?

 

[ashgallows]

Sorry I should clarify. i am asking if there is some technique i'm not aware of to make impulse's give the same chug i.e. dynamics of a real amp. I have heard pretty good tone come out of these things, but obviously not as good as the real deal and the dynamics are just static. Which is fine in some cases, but it just doesnt seem to cut it with what i'm doing.

I was also asking if you recommend me just ditching that route for using a reamping service on here as it is pretty impractical to mic an amp in my current living situation. And if that is the suggestion, if anyone knew who made the impulse that I named off previously (pretty sure most people on here have it) because that impulse is very close to the sound I am after and I would be interested in having it reamped through the actual cab that was made from.

 

[chrisrivalry]

there's a thread concerning "god's impulses" where someone added a bass resonance plug-in such as the waves R-Bass in line after the IR, then through multi-band compression and filtering you take away the majority of the meat behind it but there's still that low end thumping going on that we associate with live amps.

 

[IanM]

There's no substitute for real amps. Reamping may be your best option considering the lack of space you have. IR's are great and have a purpose and it depends how serious the recordings you want to make are. Luckily I live on a property and can crank the amps to get the speakers moving and push some air. Good luck.

 

[ashgallows]

@ianm yea i was using the 7170 for a bit and then when i switched to using a real amp the difference was staggering as far as the sheer power of the tone.
@chrisrivalry I just read that article, that is a great idea. i might just have to use that to possibly layer a few sims under the real guitar tracks.

 

[Damage, Inc.]

There's no substitute for real amps.

+1. If there's no air moving, it won't sound the same.

 

[ashgallows]

yes, actually i track some micing my vetta yesterday and even thought it it's amp sims, cranked loud with a decent amount of lows through it, it's pretty damn usable. Now i just have to find a way to sell this soldano cab and pick up one better suited to me. I'd love to track with my 6505 and layer some vetta models under it to fill out the sound.