Hello, do you know some plugin effect or general tricks to make the audio of an electric guitar (clean) similar to a steel or acoustic guitar?
Thanx
Acoustic guitar FX
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- KVRAF
- 3176 posts since 10 Jan, 2005
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
The only plug-in that I know of is ijData's Bodilizer:
http://www.ijdata.com/bodilizer.htm
It's mainly to bring life back to the sound of a piezo-equipped guitar, but apparently it works decently on electrics, as well.
One trick I've used fairly successfully is to record the electric as a "stereo" track (both channels are identical, though) or to convert the mono track into a stereo one. Then, I send it through BetabugsAudio's free PhaseBug and put the 2 channels a bit out of phase with each other. This will thin out the sound to taste. Then use a "realistic" reverb (ie. an impulse of a room) after PhaseBug so that the thinned-out sound is then placed into a "room" instead of through a virtual amp.
It's not perfect, but it's OK for certain kinds of acoustic sounds. Definitely not for anything that's meant to be up-front or 'present', but when it's blended into the backing track it's a pretty good illusion.
Greg
http://www.ijdata.com/bodilizer.htm
It's mainly to bring life back to the sound of a piezo-equipped guitar, but apparently it works decently on electrics, as well.
One trick I've used fairly successfully is to record the electric as a "stereo" track (both channels are identical, though) or to convert the mono track into a stereo one. Then, I send it through BetabugsAudio's free PhaseBug and put the 2 channels a bit out of phase with each other. This will thin out the sound to taste. Then use a "realistic" reverb (ie. an impulse of a room) after PhaseBug so that the thinned-out sound is then placed into a "room" instead of through a virtual amp.
It's not perfect, but it's OK for certain kinds of acoustic sounds. Definitely not for anything that's meant to be up-front or 'present', but when it's blended into the backing track it's a pretty good illusion.
Greg
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3176 posts since 10 Jan, 2005
Quite interesting solutions; I have had some good results using an exciter that "invents" high freuencies (in general, electric guitar sound is far less bright than acoustic).
But it was the custom Logic exciter; I still have to find a similar cross-sequencer (free) plugin; I've tried DigitalPhones dominion, but it seems to me it only enhances existing frequencies, while real frequency generation is needed here.
But it was the custom Logic exciter; I still have to find a similar cross-sequencer (free) plugin; I've tried DigitalPhones dominion, but it seems to me it only enhances existing frequencies, while real frequency generation is needed here.
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- KVRAF
- 12977 posts since 29 Sep, 2003 from Ottawa, Canada
As long as your signal is impedance-matched, you should still have plenty of highs in there without exciting them. I know there are VST that WILL recreate high frequencies from partials, but I don't have a very extensive list of them in my memory banks.
One of the plug-ins at Yohng.com will do the trick. Can't remember its name, though.
Greg
One of the plug-ins at Yohng.com will do the trick. Can't remember its name, though.
Greg