What do you guys do??
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- KVRian
- 732 posts since 4 Jun, 2005
Well, to be honest, about 2/3ds of the time I can't track with my tube amp, due to my kids stomping around upstairs or my wife trying to work. So I use a Vox ToneLab, usually either overdriven by a ZVex SHO (yes, you CAN drive amp sims with a booster!) or a Boss Dual Overdrive. The Tonelab can sound really, really good at times, very natural. Not quite as good as my amp, but good.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
no these were those damn fools who put a 426 hemi in row boatMeffy wrote:Thunder... I'm guessing these weren't those rowing shells?
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
if you don't care about effects (and emulating a tube amp I'm guessing I might be right), try the sansamp gt2 as a D.I....inverseroom wrote:Well, to be honest, about 2/3ds of the time I can't track with my tube amp, due to my kids stomping around upstairs or my wife trying to work. So I use a Vox ToneLab, usually either overdriven by a ZVex SHO (yes, you CAN drive amp sims with a booster!) or a Boss Dual Overdrive. The Tonelab can sound really, really good at times, very natural. Not quite as good as my amp, but good.
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRian
- 732 posts since 4 Jun, 2005
The Zoom G2 is also stunning, for the price. There aren't too many amp sims in it, but it sounds great.
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- KVRist
- 89 posts since 27 Oct, 2004
One trick to add guts to recorded guitar sounds... won't solve yr problem but might help, and works for real amp/mic stuff too:
do a hefty lo-mid boost _before_ the amp sim, or IRL set the amp up for a much fatter, bass-heavy sound than y're looking for. Then cut the lo-mid in the mix.
Sounds pointless, right? But it boosts the harmonics, and drives them harder thru the amp/amp sim, so you get a fatter sound without muddying those all-important mids in the mix.
do a hefty lo-mid boost _before_ the amp sim, or IRL set the amp up for a much fatter, bass-heavy sound than y're looking for. Then cut the lo-mid in the mix.
Sounds pointless, right? But it boosts the harmonics, and drives them harder thru the amp/amp sim, so you get a fatter sound without muddying those all-important mids in the mix.