I primarily compose electronic music in DAW land, using alot of synths, and I will say that I have gotten some mean sounds that I am very proud of, I've also been playing guitar for quite a while as well, but for some reason I always shy away from using guitar in my tracks, I think its because my guitars always sound dinky compared to my synths, so I figured no time like the present to figure out how to get that huge wall of sound guitar tone, (that also sounds "nice")
My amp was stolen a few months ago and I don't have the proper space/mics
so it looks like its all digital for me.
here's my signal flow
either strat or SG line out into Firepods Instrument Level input.
which then goes into logic and the channel strip goes.....
Noise Gate> Compressor > Guitar Amp Pro / Guitar Rig (one of the two) to EQ.
common problems are.
1. Dinky sound (I usually double to quaduriple track)
2. Alot of Noise, usually pick up hum, line hum and pick noise
3. not know how I should specifically process each of the multitracked guitars signal
so if you have anything to say about guitars, lets hear it.
thanks alot
Getting a Pro Guitar Tone???
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- KVRist
- 107 posts since 17 May, 2004 from Oulu, Finland
Hi Funkfish,
Qusestion 1: does the Firepod have a dedicated HiZ input? I looked at the description, and I can't quite figure it out - in the Guitar Player review link on the presonus webpage, there's not mention of plugging in the guitar directly. Connecting an electric guitar to a non HiZ input will give you a rather dinky sound...could this be your problem? (Edit - just looked it up they are HiZ, so I guess you can scratch that)Did you consider a Pod (or even a V-amp - it's got some pretty good sounds!!).
Question 2: The pickup hum - is it due to your recording right in front of the monitor? I find that I have to get away a few meters (as far as possible) and also check the most "noise free" angle towards the monitor. If you mainly play fat power chord stuff, use a noise gate plugin. If your playing involves dynamic soloing with quiet parts and sustaining notes, this may not work...
Question 3: ??? Don't have much specific to say here. Throw a compressor on there? EQ to make it stand out? The double tracking should actually help quite a bit to thicken the sound..
I'm an amateur, so take all this with a grain of salt.. I guess you wanted "Pro" advice - that's not me
Best
Alex
Qusestion 1: does the Firepod have a dedicated HiZ input? I looked at the description, and I can't quite figure it out - in the Guitar Player review link on the presonus webpage, there's not mention of plugging in the guitar directly. Connecting an electric guitar to a non HiZ input will give you a rather dinky sound...could this be your problem? (Edit - just looked it up they are HiZ, so I guess you can scratch that)Did you consider a Pod (or even a V-amp - it's got some pretty good sounds!!).
Question 2: The pickup hum - is it due to your recording right in front of the monitor? I find that I have to get away a few meters (as far as possible) and also check the most "noise free" angle towards the monitor. If you mainly play fat power chord stuff, use a noise gate plugin. If your playing involves dynamic soloing with quiet parts and sustaining notes, this may not work...
Question 3: ??? Don't have much specific to say here. Throw a compressor on there? EQ to make it stand out? The double tracking should actually help quite a bit to thicken the sound..
I'm an amateur, so take all this with a grain of salt.. I guess you wanted "Pro" advice - that's not me
Best
Alex
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- KVRian
- 529 posts since 7 Apr, 2003 from Nashville
Check your sound levels and sound quality with all effects and eq turned off. Check to see if the input stage preamping is sounding weak, bad or adding crackles. Check that your ASIO software buffers are small enough for low latency but big enough to eliminate as much crackling as possible. Some input preamps sound like poo or need simple adjustments to sound better. Once you get a decent tone after input start adding one stage at a time and ask if it sounds poo again. If so figure out how to adjust it or leave it out. Be critical of eq stages and if you think it sounds poo try turning that stage off. Try a less-is-more signal path, get a good sound, then if you want add more and you'll know you have a strong foundation..