NAD 5150iii Stealth 100

[[Nathan]]

Sounds nice & gritty.

Really dig the mix too; what did you use for drums & bass guitar?

Someone sent me this guys channel a while ago, getting the drum midi first is a solid foundation to the whole thing. He’s so good with mapping tempos and the performance out, humanised and everything.



I used Counterkit on drums, Eurobass3 DI into NDSP Parallax. Heavy lifting is just volume balance and high/lo eq passes. Once it all sounds in the right ballpark I’ll use ozone to do its auto thing and I’ve got a bunch of saved tracks in audiolens to try and mimic. I turn off the Ozone limiter and use Flatline2.

I barely use templates and just knock it up from scratch so it’s a bit different every time but that’s my goto “quick mix” stuff

 

[TSJMajesty]

Still getting used to the Stealth, its actually a lot different than what I expected dare I say "harder" to get the tone in my head over the 50w Ivory.
So far its darker than I thought, presence for me is always 3oclock and treble around 2-3 as well.
The gain really wants to be smooth and tight. You have to push it further than I expected to get a bloomy sort of chug (without pedals).
Anyway some quick tracking/reamping today... paired with Ed's EVH IR pack. I've got the full mix and ISO guitars there... I'm no mix engineer but I've studied at the school of youtube. It's all on the RED channel, gain around 11oclock while the BLUE gain knob is on 3oclock.

 

[CorrosiveMatter]

Sounds great!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Sounds great! I have always wondered about the differences between the 50 and 100 when you are in the room with them.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Still getting used to the Stealth, its actually a lot different than what I expected dare I say "harder" to get the tone in my head over the 50w Ivory.
So far its darker than I thought, presence for me is always 3oclock and treble around 2-3 as well.
The gain really wants to be smooth and tight. You have to push it further than I expected to get a bloomy sort of chug (without pedals).
Anyway some quick tracking/reamping today... paired with Ed's EVH IR pack. I've got the full mix and ISO guitars there... I'm no mix engineer but I've studied at the school of youtube. It's all on the RED channel, gain around 11oclock while the BLUE gain knob is on 3oclock.

sounds great, fat, alive and aggressive AF

 

[la szum]

If that is not the tone in your head, then it sure as hell is someone's.

 

[Mongillo19]

Still getting used to the Stealth

How do you record the amp? Loadbox, mics etc

 

[[Nathan]]

How do you record the amp? Loadbox, mics etc

Redseven Amp Central loadbox here

 

[MirrorProfiles]

This tone is such a good example of a certain liveliness that real amps just posses with zero work that can be hard to achieve with modelling. It’s just there, jumps out the speakers and sounds exciting. I think modelling can do it too but the path to get there is trickier

 

[[Nathan]]

I'm doing all of this for my own findings... the kind of stuff I do in my own time but should probably share more of it.
Anyway I matched NDSP Gojira to what the amp was set to, ran it through the same Cabinetron IR/Settings. Needed a few nudges by ear, pretty damn close!

My next thing to do is boost the amp the same way I normally run NDSP Gojira and see how it translates that way. Either way this was pretty cool to see setting for setting (almost identical)

 

[EOengineer]

I really enjoyed those tones. Great track too. Isn’t toontrack stuff killer?