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Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 5:07 pm

Hi all,

here's a little song I wrote to test Shreddage 2 in a mix, together with Shreddage Bass. I got interesting feedback, ranging from "awful, sounds like Guitar Rig" or "sounds programmed" to "wow, cool sound" or "not bad at all".

Now I'm confused, so I am looking for more input

Here's the track:
http://soundcloud.com/sting-floyd/mixdown2-1

warfighter67 · Post by **warfighter67** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 5:00 am

Sounds pretty good. It only sounds programmed because every note is perfectly timed. Try moving the notes for both the drums and guitar every so slightly off tempo.

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 11:59 am

Thanks for your feedback! Here's a different version with slightly humanized note positions
http://soundcloud.com/sting-floyd/mixdown2

warfighter67 · Post by **warfighter67** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 1:38 pm

Sounds much better!

DarkFlameSquirrel · Post by **DarkFlameSquirrel** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:57 am

This is pretty freaking good dude.

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:25 pm

Thanks a lot, guys!

deadby100cuts · Post by **deadby100cuts** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:52 am

That sounds really good man, like REALLY good. Any advice on how you got your guitar tones as well as how you humanized the playing?

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:33 pm

Thanks a lot, glad you like it!

Here's the setup:
Cubase 7.5
Shreddage 2 with 4 outputs, so I used quad tracking and panned 2 channels hard left and right and 2 channels at 75% with -3 dB
Revalver 4: Hard panned channels used Flathill (Rectifier sim), the other channels used Engl sim
MIDI tracks in Cubase had a MIDI modifier with a random range of -1 to 0 for note positions. Used -10 to 10 first but that led to some dropouts.

deadby100cuts · Post by **deadby100cuts** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:05 pm

I use cubase 7.5 as well. How do you use a modifier to humanize it? That sounds REALLY useful lol, and Ive been trying to figure it out for a while. I feel like its right under my nose and I'm missing it.

Side note: On your clean tone, I can't seem to make a good clean tone, any advice? I can get a decent sounding distorted tone but cleans elude me.

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 7:33 pm

Hope the screenshot explains what I did. Sorry, my Cubase is in German language only

"Zufall" means "random", that should be the term used in English language version of Cubase.

As for the clean tone I used the Kemper Profiling Amp with one of Ola Englund's clean profiles. Basically it's just clean tone with some reverb and delay.

deadby100cuts · Post by **deadby100cuts** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 12:21 am

Thanks for the reply man. Apparently Ive been looking everywhere but the right place.

I had some issues with droppouts even at -3, 3. is -1,0 enough to make it sound human?

Voltago · Post by **Voltago** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 6:13 am

-1 and 0 looks like it's nothing, but apparently it works - got very positive feedback since then

Plus, Shreddage 2's internal quadtracking helps as well to make it sound more human.

Synthoridity · Post by **Synthoridity** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:32 am

As others here have said, it sounds quite good.

The melody is nice and catchy, and actually reminded me of a short melody from the Angel Island Act 2 music in Sonic Advance (yay nostalgia).

DarkFlameSquirrel · Post by **DarkFlameSquirrel** » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:59 pm

Synthoridity wrote:As others here have said, it sounds quite good. The melody is nice and catchy, and actually reminded me of a short melody from the Angel Island Act 2 music in Sonic Advance (yay nostalgia).

I was thinking the same but thought hardly anyone ever played the Sonic Advance games! Awesome! (I'm obsessed, please excuse me.)

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