Michael Jackson "Rock with you" electric guitar strum sound

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Hi Forum

Anyone know how to recreated the Michael Jackson "Rock with you" electric guitar strum sound. Tried all my vst instrument for hours... can't even get close...
Any help ??

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Hire a guitar player maybe?
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An easy rhythm guitar part.

You can do this with Steinberg Virtual Guitarist --> riff-editor.
Within in 10 minutes you have this riff.

I don't own Real strat, but I guess you can also do it with
Real Strat very easily. Perhaps even better than with VG.
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Just to be clear... I have no problem to recreate the riffs... I need that exact sound of the guitar...

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Is there a riff editor in Virtual Guitarist 1 ?

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irem77 wrote:Is there a riff editor in Virtual Guitarist 1 ?
Sorry, no. The Riff-Editor is only part of Virtual Guitarist 2.
But here it is a very powerful tool. You can really get nearly
everything out of it.
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I think you need both bridge & neck pickups for this. Not too much treble or bright bridge sound. It may even be a Telecaster, but if you got a guitar that sounds similar, like a Strat, it should put you in the ball park.

It's either going through a DI or a very clean amp like a Fender Bassman, or a Fender Silverface Twin Reverb. The idea is any loud amp, like those running 100W will give you a much cleaner signal before the peaks start clipping causing the characteristic distortion effect.

Logic has a few of the amps like the ones I suggested, as does the Waves GTR, Plugin Alliance have a Bassman as well. The Treble may have to be turned down a little to pull out any overly harsh bright ness, but the Presence might be okay to post a little. The Bass may have to come down a bit if the bottom end is sounding a bit to full.

On top of that I think there is some subtle chorusing and probably a little plate that the rest of the mix was using.

Musically you'd also want to be playing on the top 3 or 4 strings, there may be some 7th chords, minors and even some 9th chords. Getting the right type of chord and voicing it correctly is a actually the biggest part of the sound, as is the strumming technique.

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BertKoor wrote:Hire a guitar player maybe?
+1
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