good freeware-based clean/metal guitar rig inside for eXT

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http://shanesanders.com/ext/guitar/Sand ... lRig01.ext

Edit: removed the crappy demo. Put this in its place as it uses the same patch.

http://www.hammerscape.com/mp3/catacombs.mp3

I worked pretty hard last night to make a decent freeware-based guitar rig. This one has an odd little clean amp (which is disconnected from the main output by default) and two Marshall JCM900 amps set up in a complimentary manner, each panned hard L/R. You'll probably need to use the EQ at the end of the chain to compensate for your own guitar/pick-up configuration on the heavy amps. You might even want to experiment with a different EQ there since there are so many available to sculpt your tone.

The default setting sounded great using an Ibanez ARC300 with Seymour Duncan SH-2 jazz model™ humbuckers in both the bridge and middle position. It's somewhere between the brown tone of Van Halen's "Jamies Crying" and a typical kind of Dream Theater crunch. Tweak to taste. There's definitely headroom for more gain if you need it. So take a peak at both of the JCM900 gain settings as well as the final mixer stage (where I have it at 50% to avoid blasting someone's ears on startup).

Here's a screenshot of the rig to help you round up all the freeware. If it's not clear, all the amps are from GSuite. Visit http://www.simulanalog.org/

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Last edited by Shane Sanders on Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:00 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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Thanks
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Just added a short demo to the first post. Maybe I'll do a clean demo, too.
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pwdm wrote:Thanks
You're welcome.

btw, I just listened to the "Lay Me Down" track on your site, and that is one seriously cool song. 8)
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Holy crap! Can you post a list of the VSTs used in that rig? I think I have almost all of them, but not sure.

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SleepyP wrote:Holy crap! Can you post a list of the VSTs used in that rig? I think I have almost all of them, but not sure.
Yep.

GHi http://www.gvst.co.uk/
GReverseDelay http://www.gvst.co.uk/
GGate http://www.gvst.co.uk/
Rednef Twin http://www.simulanalog.org/
JCM900 http://www.simulanalog.org/
Boss DS-1 http://www.simulanalog.org/
Dominion http://www.digitalfishphones.com/
Endorphin http://www.digitalfishphones.com/
AriesVerb http://www.ariescode.com/
Kjaerhus Classic Chorus http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/
Kjaerhus Classic Phaser http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/
Bionic Delay http://www.interruptor.ch/vst_overview.shtml
IIEQ http://www.ddmf.eu/
Electri-Q (Posihfopit Edition) http://www.aixcoustic.com/
Cyanide2 http://bram.smartelectronix.com/
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And here is one of the bad things of energyXT (and some other hosts) whereby I cannot tell it where to find the file, since I rename almost all VST filenames to suit my needs. And I've got almost all the plugs too... a pity. :)

I might save the screenshot for future reference to get an idea of the kind of line up you used, since this sort of thing isn't really something I've looked into yet.

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Wow, I can't thank you enough for this. I'm fairly new at electric guitar, and I'm still getting used to different settings. I'm a preset junkie with my amp sims.

Also, this tone is amazing, and perfect for some stuff I have coming up. I can't wait to load it up!

Any chance that you will be making more of these, or changing settings?

Brent
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druid wrote:And here is one of the bad things of energyXT (and some other hosts) whereby I cannot tell it where to find the file, since I rename almost all VST filenames to suit my needs. And I've got almost all the plugs too... a pity. :)

I might save the screenshot for future reference to get an idea of the kind of line up you used, since this sort of thing isn't really something I've looked into yet.
As a workaround after you load the main file, right-click on each module and choose "replace", then navigate to whatever you've renamed it. Slightly tedious, but it won't take too long and then you'll have it set up.
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koolkeys wrote:Wow, I can't thank you enough for this. I'm fairly new at electric guitar, and I'm still getting used to different settings. I'm a preset junkie with my amp sims.

Also, this tone is amazing, and perfect for some stuff I have coming up. I can't wait to load it up!

Any chance that you will be making more of these, or changing settings?

Brent
Cool. Glad you like it. I've been using myself tonight on a riff.

I'll probably keep experimenting. There are still some preamps I haven't tested.
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Shane Sanders wrote:
druid wrote:And here is one of the bad things of energyXT (and some other hosts) whereby I cannot tell it where to find the file, since I rename almost all VST filenames to suit my needs. And I've got almost all the plugs too... a pity. :)

I might save the screenshot for future reference to get an idea of the kind of line up you used, since this sort of thing isn't really something I've looked into yet.
As a workaround after you load the main file, right-click on each module and choose "replace", then navigate to whatever you've renamed it. Slightly tedious, but it won't take too long and then you'll have it set up.
Yep, that will replace the VST, but you lose all the original VST's settings and any CC Mapping.

Being able to search for or select a "missing VST" when eXT loads the .ext file would be a great help.

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YES PLEASE!!!

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Shane Sanders wrote:As a workaround after you load the main file, right-click on each module and choose "replace", then navigate to whatever you've renamed it. Slightly tedious, but it won't take too long and then you'll have it set up.
I was going to say what DarkStar said, that it allows me to keep the layout with the right plugins, but not the settings. However, I said I was keeping the screenshot for reference, but didn't actually think of keeping the file and replacing VSTs. That would be much easier than copying from a picture.

I seem to always find the hard way to do things. :)

Thank you for your work. It does sound quite good, and its great when people add things like this to the community (or at least here).

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Just redownload them and have a specific directory for those plugins - keep the original names.

Fairly simple solution. Just have some duplicated dll files.
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Thanks! Looks very nice. Now I'd just have to take my guitar home and start practicing :P
A guy with serious GAS and lots of unused VSTs. But if I someday need them...

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