Exact Sound of Musician Replication Plug Ins - Can You Name A Few?

[go west young man]

I'm curious if anyone has any ideas in this regard. I am looking for manufacturer plug ins that one can run their individual tracks through that can then provide specific famous musician sounds. I understand many companies like Positive Grid and others doing customer created sounds for bass and guitar but I am more interested in what companies provide licensed artist sounds specifically in their plug ins so I can simply generate the sounds without having to do any searching, plug in stacking or mixing to create similar sounds. Or plug ins also where I can put the track in it and it will generate a comparable waveform and sound for specific artists. I know Izotope does something similar with reference tracks but that also doesn't appear to be very artist specific.

Of note I've tried the CLA Vocals, Baby Audio Crystalline and Joey Sturgis for vocals and they do have many settings that are artist specific/slightly off-named. Wondering now more about guitar, bass and drums. I would love to be able to just throw my tracks in there, get a nice waveform comparison for levels and come up with a list of specific artists for those things.

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated.

[psynical]

that's not how any of this works.

[Hewitt Huntwork]

that's not how any of this works.

... yet.

[MogwaiBoy]

that's not how any of this works.

It's actually kind of a novel idea. I'm just listening to Sleep Token's song 'Hypnosis' right now imagining if there was a plugin that replicated that guitar intro sound - although obviously it's easily replicated with a combination of tremolo, reverb, modulation, overdrive etc - if you know what you're doing.

[El°HYM]

Anything with 'Boards' in its preset name will make you feel almost VHS.

[psynical]

It's actually kind of a novel idea.

it's not a novel idea... people have been trying to figure out how to do this for decades already. Eventually, this will be possible, but definitely not today or tomorrow.

[CrystalWizard]

No not a novel idea, but, a dystopian one imo. Eventually "they" will have Machine Learning doing exactly this on a large scale (it exists but i've only heard about it being applied to a few well know classical composers such as Mozart and Ludwig Von). Cynically, i imagine more people using this technology to copy the style and sound of (imo of course) the sewer of mainstream fabricated crap that has been flowing freely for years. Sure, i'd like another 100 Mozart symphonies...if he actually wrote them.

[Uncle E]

Of note I've tried the CLA Vocals, Baby Audio Crystalline and Joey Sturgis for vocals and they do have many settings that are artist specific/slightly off-named. Wondering now more about guitar, bass and drums.

Overloud TH-U Iconic series is exactly what you're looking for for guitars:

https://overloud.com/products/bhs-iconic-1-hair-metal

Vintage Drum Samples is exactly what you're looking for for drums:

https://vintagedrumsamples.gumroad.com/

UJAM is probably the closest to what you're looking for for bass (it sounds like you'll love many of their other products, as well):

https://www.ujam.com/bassist/

[bitman]

Overloud Rock Guy - Boston in a box.

[El°HYM]

Of note I've tried the CLA Vocals, Baby Audio Crystalline and Joey Sturgis for vocals and they do have many settings that are artist specific/slightly off-named. Wondering now more about guitar, bass and drums.

Overloud TH-U Iconic series is exactly what you're looking for for guitars:

https://overloud.com/products/bhs-iconic-1-hair-metal

Vintage Drum Samples is exactly what you're looking for for drums:

https://vintagedrumsamples.gumroad.com/

UJAM is probably the closest to what you're looking for for bass (it sounds like you'll love many of their other products, as well):

https://www.ujam.com/bassist/

When you're patiently waiting for Singularity and didnt realize that a Robot just served you a cup of Tea.

[go west young man]

Thanks Eric. Those drums are what I'm looking for. Hadn't heard of em till now so definitely appreciate it as I love those 70's sounding drums. Guitars I am more into bands like the Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, Luna and The Church, but you are hitting the idea on the head with specific player metal sounds. All the best.

[Uncle E]

Guitars I am more into bands like the Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, Luna and The Church, but you are hitting the idea on the head with specific player metal sounds.

So I’m not the only person who tried to make my guitar sound like the bagpipe in Under The Milkyway?

I’m guessing a lot of these bands used AC30’s or DI’s for their recorded tones. Live is different, I remember seeing many pictures of The Cure using Peavey’s, but you can get every sound in Just Like Heaven with a DI, no amp. Also, early Cure is a different story, those tones sound like amps to me, although either not very good ones or poorly recorded. The tremolo in Bring On The Dancing Horses is a hard square wave, which points to an AC30, plus Echo and The Bunnymen seemed highly influenced by The Beatles and had stunningly good guitar tones all around.

Finally, I’ll just say that many bands got their sounds from pedals back then and the pedals weren’t amp-like like they are now. That makes copping their tones pretty tough because you can’t just get an AC30 plugin and expect it to sound like them.

[donkey tugger]

Also, early Cure is a different story, those tones sound like amps to me, although either not very good ones or poorly recorded.

He famously used a Woolworths guitar and little WEM combo amp in the early days. This I find will get you close to the spiky sound of the latter;

https://www.soft-amp.com/softamp-fm25

[go west young man]

Ha! Funny enough I actually have tried to emulate that Under the Milky Way solo before! I dig the Church and particularly the stuff since the early 2000's when drummer and recording engineer Tim Powles came onboard. His own stuff is pretty amazing too. Even better than Steve Kilbey's and Marty Wilson Piper's in my opinion.

When it comes to the Cure I dig that Simon Gallop bass sound, particularly on the late 80's early 90's stuff, Wish and Disintegration. The UJAM rec you provide may be helpful in this regard. I'll check it out. I'm currently using Toontracks EZ Bass and then running it through the CLA bass plugin which gives some pretty good unique sounds. Plus with that I can perform the bass line myself and then the EZ bass can replicate it in midi and it can be more precisely honed in and focused sounding.

A Cure emulation plugin would be an amazing thing though as they have so many unique sounds through their career. Would be cool to have a Cure plug in that can emulate the early 80s sounds of tracks like the Hanging Garden, Boys Don't Cry and a Forest while also being able to get those huge distorted stadium amp sounds of the Wish era.

A cool idea would be a specific 80s goth band plugin that can replicate sounds from all the great bands of that era....The Sisters of Mercy, Will Sergeant, that Smiths How Soon Is Now sound that I think even Greenday used for Boulevard of Broken Dreams, some Wonderstuff distorted guitars, some Church sounds like on Reptile, U2's delay from Wire, the Charlatans clean tones, Robyn Hitchcocks jangly clean sound that Peter Buck even used at times, plus that REM bang and blame delay, etc. Anyway, you get the idea. Just would be cool to have em all in one plugin and I'm surprised no one has gone for that kind of thing yet.

If you'd like to check out what I'm up to music wise, here's a link to some of my stuff that is heavily influenced by all those 120 Minutes bands MTV used to play. I'm still working on getting better sound and conducting better gain staging so do be forgiving, but feel free to provide any constructive criticism as I'm all ears for trying to improve my sound. All the best. Mental Pictures - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ewuwNxqCOaSrGsF2HSXGz

[go west young man]

More cool band sounds that would be in that dream guitar plugin... Peter Murphys Cuts You Up emulation, a nice House of Love clean reverb, some World Party warm Vox AC30 for those Beatles style licks n leads, a Tin Machine distortion, plus those guitars from Neds Atomic Dustbins Grey Cell Green, plus some unique sounds from Radiohead's The Bends (particularly those trem/vibe sounds) and that Luna Vox sound with some shimmering reverb and delay. Then some Slowdive and Spiritualized. Add some more of Peter Bucks twangy stuff from New Adventures in Hi Fi and distortions from Monster. There's lots of possibilities as all those great bands had such unique sounds. Just need a developer to go for it!