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Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:12 pm

If you have $350 too much...

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:18 pm

That's not out of line for a set of pickups by any major manufacturer. It's a little bit higher, but not insanely so.

Cosmic Bandito · Post by **Cosmic Bandito** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:28 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:Those Kinman PUs are looking great... but I better keep myself away from looking at the prices.

I've got the Dimarzio Virtual Vintage in my Strat. They sound pretty nice and have like *zero* noise. My Luthier recommended them and has them in his own Strat. Probably the best bang for the buck as I got 2 of them for $150 installed (keep in mind these are NYC prices).

If you read reviews on Harmony Central, the Kinmans are where it's at if you have the cash. But I read somewhere that Seymour Dunkin is releasing replacement Strat pickups soon. I'd definitely keep an eye on that if I were shopping for Strat pups!

Anyway, I hated them noisy strat tex-mex pups especially if you run direct! They would just amplify any ground hum from my DAW like 20x. Forget about shielding, just change the pups - Single best mod I had done to my Strat!

luka2807 · Post by **luka2807** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:17 pm

Hey Midiworks,

How your ampsim is doing in hi-gain department? If you remeber we spoke about it couple of months ago. Think Rammstein or basicaly any modern metal/nu-metal band with that chugga-chugga kick rythm sound. I would like to send you a short mp3 clip but it is too complicated here with my lousy 56k modem.

Cheers

rawcan · Post by **rawcan** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:43 pm

Hi there,

I just heard some of the demoe mp3 and I'm really impressed. I didn't take the time to wade through all 27 pages of this thread

so this might be the everyday question: When and how much? I'm also interested in Nu metal sounds. How many different "channels" does this plugin have? You know, I just want to know it all.

Thanx in advance, rawcan

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:43 pm

Nu Metal is still a 'sought after' sound? Ugh. I thought we had gotten some taste. <grin>

jens · Post by **jens** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:53 pm

Lunch Money wrote:Nu Metal is still a 'sought after' sound? Ugh. I thought we had gotten some taste. <grin>

me loves Nu Metal guitar-sound!

luka2807 · Post by **luka2807** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:15 pm

Here we go.
Guitar Rig sample (taken from NI forum)
http://www.mp3lizard.com/download.cfm?id=15573
http://www.nativeinstruments.de/site/fo ... hp?t=24355

Not quite chugga-chugga but it shows direction.

rockstar_not · Post by **rockstar_not** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:36 pm

OK,

I didn't read through all 27 pages here. Has anyone pointed out the guitar construction kit over at audioshots auditorium? All clean Squier strat copy sounds, if I recall correctly. Its in SoundFont format, so you can 'play' the strat with something like sfz - route that into your amp sim, and see what pops out.

Here's the link to the soundfont thread and the sf itself at audioshots:
http://audioshots.com/auditorium/viewtopic.php?t=154

No chugga chugga sounds, but other stuff that you can make use of.

-Scott

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 4:49 am

Uhh, a 35mb zip...
Why they dont use SFPACK and than RAR the sf2 ?
That saves around 50%...

Just started to DL the mp3, yes not that bad.
I only wonder why I could not set up a sound like this with Guitar Rig... !?
Anyway, EVERYBODY can get a sound like that out of my amp easily.

There are no magic tricks to be used !

mondo tormento · Post by **mondo tormento** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 10:43 am

Any release date yet Midiworks? The people are getting restless

For ACDC type guitar sound nothing beats the Saro plugin along with a good speaker simulation.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 2:34 pm

mondo tormento wrote:Any release date yet Midiworks? The people are getting restless For ACDC type guitar sound nothing beats the Saro plugin along with a good speaker simulation.

As I said before, when I am 100% happy,
then there will be the release.

Today I created a few new speaker models,
based around the ones from the demos.
The results are more than amazing !

atm a new EQ is in work,
that will bring cpu further down hopefully.
So, everybody will profit from that long wait.

I must say, without all the help from you great people here at KVR,
there would be no amp at all.

Thank you all for your great support !

zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 12:22 pm

OK here's what I can do to help:

http://www.show.gr/zeoy/stang.mp3
http://www.show.gr/zeoy/pride.mp3
http://www.show.gr/zeoy/riviera.mp3

These tracks are recorded using a Tokai AST-56 Strat replica tuned a half tone down using a set of 11 sized (not 13 as SRV ...) GHS Boomers.

Recording chain was Guitar->M-audio Audiobuddy preamp-> Audiophile 2496->Tracktion (24 bit wavs).

Conversion with audacity+lame 256Kbps stereo (sorry for that) mp3's

I tried to minimize noise in the recordings but there is still some.

A few words about the tracks:
*stang is the main part of SRVs "stang swang" played with neck pick-up
*pride is the intro (not-exactly) of SRVs "pride and joy" played with bridge pick-up
*riviera is the main theme of SRVs "riviera paradise" played with neck+middle pickup combination (no tremolo bar though... couldn't find it)

Sorry for a few mistakes in my playing but my fingers didn't follow my brain as they should (long time no practise).

I hope they can be used to demonstrate how your plugin works with semi clean settings.

Cheers

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:51 pm

Great, thanks zeoy !

They are now online here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/rockmansoundmusic.htm
(Top 3 titles on the page)

Tell me how you like it please, I am not a jazzer.

Here you can hear the brand new speaker sims
and the new chorus.
Amps, EQ, speakers, thats basically all here.
(no compression, delays or reverb)

Saschas and Dimitars new takes follow soon.

zeoy · Post by **zeoy** » Sun Apr 24, 2005 10:26 pm

I am on a shity dial-up right now and can only listen to the lo-fi versions. Comments tomorrow

Guitar players, The soundclick MP3 demo page got updated !