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Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:08 am

Midiworks wrote:Lady J & baggio,

It would be great if you can come up with a few riffs !

Please !
Would love to hear your guitars !!!

Thanks
Midiworks

Ok, I'm done with the competition now so i can do this. I'll post you some samples later on tonight.

I can also take clean samples from my competition entry where i played rhythm and a little lead.
have a listen and let me know if you want clean samples of any of this.
http://homepage.mac.com/jaderock/07_04_ ... arPigs.mp3

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:35 am

Oki, here's some more (I always record DI, so this was easy for me - just filched a few bits from my songs

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I noticed that what you've got so far seems to be mostly rawk and metel/widdling, so I've put a few strummy/picked indie type bits in for you;

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bennyleeds7/guitarbits.zip

Guitar is a cheapy generic Washburn 'superstrat' (model kc-20v), all done with back pickup.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:43 am

cbenci wrote:The Workbench from Line 6 looks interesting in that I think you can customise the Variax models via your PC, including pickup stacking, body type, tuning, etc. I hope they bring out new models to download on a regular basis ... now that would be awesome.

That is true !
Thanks for the info about the output gain.

I would love to see a classic acoustic guitar too.
A better 12 sting, a virtual capo would be great !
Waiting for Workbench then we see.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:27 pm

donkey tugger wrote:I noticed that what you've got so far seems to be mostly rawk and metel/widdling, so I've put a few strummy/picked indie type bits in for you

Thanks donkey tugger, they worked very well too.

Thats what I mean, different players have different styles.
Then the distortion reacts different too.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 1:34 pm

Lady J wrote:Ok, I'm done with the competition now so i can do this. I'll post you some samples later on tonight.

I can also take clean samples from my competition entry where i played rhythm and a little lead.
have a listen and let me know if you want clean samples of any of this.

Cool song Lady J,
whatever you have is very welcome !
Longer lead notes would be cool to check out the sustain.

Lady J, what did you used to get that distortion in the song ?

Cheers Midiworks

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 3:30 pm

Midiworks wrote:
Lady J wrote:Ok, I'm done with the competition now so i can do this. I'll post you some samples later on tonight.

I can also take clean samples from my competition entry where i played rhythm and a little lead.
have a listen and let me know if you want clean samples of any of this.
Cool song Lady J,
whatever you have is very welcome !
Longer lead notes would be cool to check out the sustain.

Lady J, what did you used to get that distortion in the song ?

Cheers Midiworks

I used IK Multimedia's amplitube and some of the Toneheaded presets I've designed for the guitar distortion, speaker simulation, etc. And yes I will play ya some legato lead riffs as well.

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:24 pm

Alrighty-Dokey, then. Here's a contribution for ya:

1. A "complete" song -- heres a song, including drums, bass, 2 rhythm guitars, and 1 solo. I had thrown it together rather quickly when I was teaching my dad about recording on the computer. It's blues, so there are no bad-ass riffs, but it IS meant to be a rock-blues. I decided that I'd encode the silences as well so that the tracks will line up against one-another without any tweaking, so there's a bit of wasted space, making the file-sized bigger, but I hope it's worth the convenience:

For both 'rhythm' guitars, I recorded with an acoustic. The mic'ed acoustic track might not work so well with distortion. The riff track was recorded with a Dean Markley Pro-Mag soundhole pickup, which is actually a single-coil low-output pickup. As it turns out, it sounded better with light distortion than my electrics did.

The solo is recorded with a Yamaha Pacifica 302, which is a tele-style guitar. I used the bridge pickup, though, which is a mini-humbucker I put in called a "Little 59" by Seymour Duncan.

Downloads:

Full Package
Guitar Only
The completed track, the way I mixed it if you want a reference point... not that you need to emulate what I did or anything.

2. Some guitar parts from my current project. I didn't include drums or bass this time, but I DID maintain the theme of recording the silences. This affects the Godin rhythm track, which comes in after 16 measures, but REALLY affects the solo, which is actually very short and comes in much later. That's a lot of silence, but again I figured it would be helpful for lining up the tracks. The download ends up being pretty small anyhow. In each rhythm part there are verse, bridge, and chorus riffs. The solo is done over the chorus riffs.

Guitars:

-Main riff>> Godin LG with SD P-90s. Recorded in bridge position. If you get lots of string noise and treble, that's pretty standard for a bridge position P-90 played inattentively.

-Secondary riff>> The Pacifica with the bridge humbucker again.

-Solo>> Same as above

Download:

Riffs and Solo

Hope those are helpful. For what it's worth, I owe my allegiance to another great distortion/amp plugin, but I'm not against helping someone out a bit.

You can never have too many distortions. <grin>

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 10:45 pm

In case you need a wide variety of sounds;
Telecaster® Replacement Pickups : http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/SD ... d/tele.htm
Strat® Replacement Pickups : http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/SD ... /strat.htm

and last but not least:
Humbuckers and P-90s Replacement Pickups :
http://www.seymourduncan.com/website/SD ... hummer.htm

Now, will this excuse me for recording my Stagg L320CS?

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:36 pm

MrM wrote: Now, will this excuse me for recording my Stagg L320CS?

No !

Grab your guitar and hit the stings !!!

Sorry the links are not usefull for what I do.

Thanks
Midiworks

MrM · Post by **MrM** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 11:42 pm

OK, I'll do some stringing tomorrow (it's way past midnight overhere).

I'll play some lousy notes in random order that some might think of as carefully composed, but in fact it is just my attempt to just do it.

wilkoryte · Post by **wilkoryte** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 10:29 am

another one

Still got the blues (Gary Moore)

same guitar, same pickup

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 11:44 am

Sorry for not getting back to you earlier, Midiworks, my music machine hasn't been at home the last two days.

Anyways, here's just a few sounds. The non-Dry-indicated MP3s are played similar as the dry ones, just to demonstrate what it approximately should sound like (I could've split the sound and reroute into the Vamp but been too lazy, so I just recorded two versions). All done with my Tom Anderson.

http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGi ... Chords.mp3
http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGi ... rdsDry.mp3

Those kinda half distorted things IMO are where all amp sims lack.
PU used: Neck, parallel mode.

http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGi ... cratch.mp3
http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGi ... tchDry.mp3
Bit of Lenny Kravitz stylish.
PU used: Neck, humbucker mode.

http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGits/Riff.mp3
http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGits/RiffDry.mp3
Some standard riff.
PU used: Bridge, humbucker mode.

http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGits/Solo.mp3
http://home.arcor.de/s.franck/kvr/DryGits/SoloDry.mp3
Dry and "wet" playing only approximately similar.
PU used: Switches between Neck and Bridge humbuckers.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:25 pm

Sascha Franck wrote:Anyways, here's just a few sounds. The non-Dry-indicated MP3s are played similar as the dry ones, just to demonstrate what it approximately should sound like (I could've split the sound and reroute into the Vamp but been too lazy, so I just recorded two versions). All done with my Tom Anderson.

Thanks a lot Sascha !
It worked perfectly.

Very nice guitar indeed !!!

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:27 pm

wilkoryte wrote:another one

Still got the blues (Gary Moore)

same guitar, same pickup

He hey !
Long sustained notes great !
Thanks a lot.

Midiworks · Post by **Midiworks** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:30 pm

Lunch Money wrote:Alrighty-Dokey, then. Here's a contribution for ya:

Hope those are helpful. For what it's worth, I owe my allegiance to another great distortion/amp plugin, but I'm not against helping someone out a bit. You can never have too many distortions. <grin>

Thanks a lot,
took me a while to get them.

Cheers

Guitar players, The soundclick MP3 demo page got updated !