mercifulfuzziness
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Just keep hacking away.I am one these guys who plays the song he practiced relatively good at home but fuck Jo entirely when I am with my teacher
We fuss a lot about tone but in reality it's the playing part and/or song that matters even more.
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One of my own, IIRC.
These are my set-and-forget live IRs for a whole while by now. One is somewhat brighter, but IIRC, it's just a baked in EQ.
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Indeed, if this highlights the challenges a guitarist is having with recording, I would STRONGLY advise finding a partner to do important recording with - could be another guitarist, but in my experience it works even better if they aren’t much of a guitarist.
I don’t have as much opportunity to do this anymore, but I had a buddy that I would call in to “produce” anything I really wanted to capture well. Options paralysis, over analyzing unimportant stuff, etc. stopped when we worked together - when you have to talk through the choices and have someone else in the room saying “what are you doing? That sounds great, let’s just get a good take?” That stuff just falls away. And you start to identify parts of the playing that are better than you realized and hear some minor mistakes that do warrant an extra take or a punch in.
The guitarist acting as own producer and wearing the hat of the player trying to feel the magic and the engineer trying to get a good sound I imagine is where a lot of these problems arise.
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What's the speaker/cab?
But you can do that because you have the experience of how you know what it to respond to your playing. other people may not know that so will go in an endless circle of tweaking which is my point.
mercifulfuzziness
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Just keep hacking away.
We fuss a lot about tone but in reality it's the playing part and/or song that matters even more.
Haha every time I am on the brick of buying some new gear, I hear some player and it discourages to buy anything other than guitar lessons.
Look at that Sayce video. My god. If it’s good enough for him, a modeler (helix, neural cortex or fractal) is def good enough for me.
Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
Better the playing and trust your ears.
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That's honestly good! You have more than good enough gear for anything, and any extras are wants rather than needs.
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And please screenshot your settings if you don’t mind.
I posted the entire patch already (IR included, apparently it's been the brighter one - but as there's the stock cab as well, I don't know which one I used for the recording):
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maybe I’m just wildly impatient but that’s not how it worked for me. Because the point was to actually record something; sometimes with people expecting me to actually do that so they could hear (or even occasionally use!) what I was recording. And so at some point I just determined “well, that’s as good as it’s gonna get” and moved on. No endless circling, just years of guitar sounds that likely could have been better with more knowledge/time/perspective.
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A wild mix. See this post and you might get an idea of what kinda things I did:
The Digital Doubt
Except it’s actually nothing like that. It's every bit like that. I have slapped together a bunch of IRs that I usually enjoy more than any cab I owned. Just that it's not working for you (are you even playing live?) doesn't mean anything.
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I like the Kemper, but I'm just not a profiling person for various reasons. You make a valid point regardless.
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Sayce is the brand, the chef. The gear are just his ingredients in that moment. He knows how to cook a nice dish with whatever he's got because he trusts his skills.Look at that Sayce video. My god. If it’s good enough for him, a modeler (helix, neural cortex or fractal) is def good enough for me.
Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
Better the playing and trust your ears.
I'm hungry now.
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Yeah, I can’t go back to the Kemper, but aside from the profile aspect of it, it’s UI with hardware button access to every block, ability to lock everything but the amp block, etc., are all things I’m still wildly jealous of.
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Oh ok, that's cool.A wild mix. See this post and you might get an idea of what kinda things I did:
The Digital Doubt
Except it’s actually nothing like that. It's every bit like that. I have slapped together a bunch of IRs that I usually enjoy more than any cab I owned. Just that it's not working for you (are you even playing live?) doesn't mean anything.
Sounds like the process worked out good for you.
Not sure I will go down that road myself, although it intrigues me.
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It's actually not *that* tough once you have a good handful of "ballpark" IRs. Set up some of them parallely, so you can easily mix them, look for the "best" frequency performance in each of them (some may have nice mids but boomy lows or highs perceived as phase-y, whatever), EQ them so the nice portions stand out, then mix and match. Then use some Match EQ for the final tweaks.
I actually happened to like the process because it taught me a whole lot.
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Sascha Franck
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But are you able to play “happy birthday”?
Which version do you want? In which key?
mercifulfuzziness
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kidding
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I mean, it's a nearly thousand dollar guitar. With a good setup, I don't see how it would slow anyone down.Same with guitars. Apparently there are people touring with the Player Strat
