Best electric guitar sample collection

[A3ntar]

After listening to the LPC demo, it felt to me a bit sterile and the guitar sound a bit distant. I am giving some others a listen. I liked the Quantum Leap 56 Strat one.

[Gregjazz]

Check out this, too:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100644

[manytone]

Check out this, too:

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=100644

Don't be shy Greg ..
I'll Post the latest tune you just sent me.

I put it on the Manytone server just now and added it to that thread also, Here is the link:

http://www.manytone.com/music/ManyGuitar_FunkyTone.mp3

It is Gregs NEW Guitar and Bass sets that are included in the upcoming ManyGuitar. The neat thing is that the chorded guitar and the lead guitar that you hear are the same SampleSet with different amp settings through the ManyGuitar interface. The Bass is also one of the new ManyGuitar sets.
Sounding pretty sweet Greg.
Paul

[Freemind]

- Hans Zimmer guitar vol 1 by Spectrasonics has clean electric guitar samples -- anyone tried it? http://www.ilio.com/spectrasonics/hansz ... index.html

I am using the Hans Zimmer Collection, but I am using them to Halion Sampler ( ver 2.0 ). There are some samples in that CD, that rock, and the sampling is very good! For rock, metal and rock ballad styles, is a good choice...I have tried them in a variety of styles though ( new age, ambient ), and with the proper fxs, you can have a realistic guitar playing...

[LijEyasu]

There's no comparison between this and the LPC Clean. Sorry. The LPC is by far the best library out now. It has the most articulations, and great sound. The only negative thing is the size.

The Vintaudio stuff is decent, but basic in the articulations department. I own it, but plan to get the LPC.

After listening to the LPC demo, it felt to me a bit sterile and the guitar sound a bit distant. I am giving some others a listen. I liked the Quantum Leap 56 Strat one.

[Yossarian]

You might want to add Raging Guitars from www.bigfishaudio.com to the list. It's an 11 GB library which uses the Kontakt player engine. It has both sustained notes and chords with different amounts of distortion. There are a few demos at the website.

/Yoss

[kevvvvv]

To date I find that chasing the mythical guitar sample set is just that - a myth.

I love electric guitar samples. Everytime I get a new set I think "... is this the one" - but no.

I thought Vint Audio guitars would be the final solution. But no. Very nice, but not "absolutely it".

Ultimate Guitar has a great tone, even if it doesn't fit a so-called high specification.

Steinberg's Wizoo Halion Strat is a beaut when heavily effected.

Sonic from Squids aren't even sampled at every fret, are 16 bit, and mostly aren't layered, yet they give a great sound straight out of the box.

Manytone Guitars sound good too, especially griels' jaath guitar.

As often as not the cheapies can sound as good or better as the expensive sets.

Go figure

[jeffn1]

To date I find that chasing the mythical guitar sample set is just that - a myth.

I love electric guitar samples. Everytime I get a new set I think "... is this the one" - but no.

I thought Vint Audio guitars would be the final solution. But no. Very nice, but not "absolutely it".

Ultimate Guitar has a great tone, even if it doesn't fit a so-called high specification.

Steinberg's Wizoo Halion Strat is a beaut when heavily effected.

Sonic from Squids aren't even sampled at every fret, are 16 bit, and mostly aren't layered, yet they give a great sound straight out of the box.

Manytone Guitars sound good too, especially griels' jaath guitar.

As often as not the cheapies can sound as good or better as the expensive sets.

Go figure

One reason Vintaudio could not be the final solution is it does not have chords/palm mutes chords. This is essential.

Lyrical Distortion does a nice job with chords (including palm mutes), but it does not have the large selection of chords available in LPC (I hope LPC has palm muted versions of all the chords; maybe I should check that out).

jeffn1

[k2500x]

Anyone tried the Vienna OVERDRIVE collection?
To my ears the demos sound better than LPC.

[Chris Hein]

LPC Electric Distortion and Clean Guitar looks like the thing. (Over 60 Giga-bytes, 150,000 samples recorded from a single instrument.) BUT - only for Gigastudio.

I did not read the whole post, but didn´t you see the group-buy thats going on:
http://prominy.com/shop/catalog/index.php?cPath=25
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/sho ... hp?t=38619

And, yes, there is a kontakt version of LPC.

Chris Hein

[k2500x]

Wow that LPC group buy deal is pretty phatt. I might have to jump on that.

[kevvvvv]

It's the extra hard disk cost that slows me up.

[jeffn1]

It's the extra hard disk cost that slows me up.

Almost all the demos were done with the clean version and an amp sim. The hard drive space is more managageable if you just get the clean or distorted verion, rather than both.

Doit, doit, doit, doit, doit, . . . .

jeffn1

[k2500x]

Almost all the demos were done with the clean version and an amp sim. The hard drive space is more managageable if you just get the clean or distorted verion, rather than both.

jeffn1

wow - I'm a bit surprised to hear that because the "demos" lead you to believe that's the sound you're going to get without additional processing. If they used additional processing on certain tracks I would like to know about it before I buy. I was expecting to be able to build trax like the demos without investing in additional FX processors (at god knows what cost?) Can anyone who has used this library please confirm?

[HellectronX]

I've listened to the demo's made using B Melia's lyrical distorsion. It sounds impressive, especially for some progressive metal
When I listen to such pieces, I get more and more fed up with my Steinberg VG's