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Guitar Software General

Postby Acsii » 11 Aug 2013 19:19

So we need one of these because a lot of us play guitar.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Symphon » 11 Aug 2013 20:13

Kyoga wrote:Pod farm 6

Does anybody here have this? I've heard it's really good but I also hear it's really crappy. ;~:

I don't have it but I've heard mixed things as well, mainly on the positive side though.

Anyone else use RealGuitar? Any tips on how to use it effectively? Because chords confuse me with it.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby CaptainFluffatun » 11 Aug 2013 21:19

I just use Guitar Rig if I plan to be using a virtual amp. Sometimes I record my actual amp, but primarily I just go with DI because I'm lazy and don't have to worry about mic positioning that way.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Conchetupony » 12 Aug 2013 20:45

Guitarix. Takes some time and beforehand knowledge to get a good tone, but it's worth it in the end imo. I had lots of great tones and managed to get Geezer's bass tone almost perfectly, but my brother formatted the comp and I lost everything D: Gotta fiddle some more with it.

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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby colortwelve » 12 Aug 2013 20:52

Symphon wrote:Anyone else use RealGuitar? Any tips on how to use it effectively? Because chords confuse me with it.

I've worked with it a bit, the way I understand it, putting it in chord mode will make the guitar play chords based on the lowest note in the piano roll. Never quite caught if writing out a full major triad will give you a different result than a full minor triad, I got to the point where I just wrote out the roots and let the VST figure it out.

And making new strum patterns is really annoying too, you have to render a MIDI and drop it in the program's folder, and asdfghjkl I only use electric guitar samples now.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Trixiee » 30 Aug 2013 20:06

I run my guitar through a Digitech RP90 and use Camelphat 3 to give it more of a tube sound. I have a tight noise gate on my preset and I cut the notes off when I want it to be super tight for djenty breakdowns.

here's a little demo of it

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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Conchetupony » 31 Aug 2013 14:01

Might start running my bass through a Zoom multi-FX, sounds far better than any amp sim I've tried. Maybe I should look into doing the same with my guitar.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Trixiee » 02 Sep 2013 14:28

Do what works for you. With my experiences runinng a line from your pedal is usually better than using software like Pod Farm or Hardcore. Synthesizing or resampling is near impossible to get anything decent sounding and almost always sounds extremely cheesy and fake. In a perfect world you should mic your cab with like a SM57 or equivalent and run that into your interface but not many people have that luxury.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Conchetupony » 02 Sep 2013 20:35

haha my only amp is a crappy solidstate practice amp that sounds worse than any amp sim :c

But I just ran my guitar and bass through the B1X as a preamp before interface/sim and it sounds great c: Far less noise too, I probably was amplifying cable noise when I DIed to the interface.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Trixiee » 03 Sep 2013 18:23

Pretty similar to what I do except my pedal serves as the amp sim too :p
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Dyrilby » 25 Oct 2013 04:16

Well, for my guitar, I use a distortion pedal, through my amp's mixer output into my mixer. Then I just add EQ to drop all the mid crap, then compress the shit out of it. Works like a charm.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby ArisingFlame » 31 Oct 2013 01:26

Symphon wrote:Anyone else use RealGuitar? Any tips on how to use it effectively? Because chords confuse me with it.

I avoid the chord function like the plague, unless I'm looking for ideas. I like to do it all manually. But I stick to RealStrat more so, running into Amplitube.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby S.P.P » 31 Oct 2013 17:43

Kyoga wrote:Pod farm 6

Does anybody here have this? I've heard it's really good but I also hear it's really crappy. ;~:

My friend uses this and swears by it. http://m.soundcloud.com/jmicons/higher- ... e-sun-demo

There's other stuff on his soundcloud, but it's 7 months worse in quality. :3
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Injustrial » 31 Oct 2013 17:49

I'm poor. I've got a V-Amp 2, but haven't used it for years now. It's a vocal effects-box for meg atm xD

I like the Hardcore thingy in FL, though. It's got some fun things to tweak on, but it all sound VERY synthetic. Works for that digital crunch sound
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby Fl Brony » 01 Nov 2013 18:03

I like to use Reaper and a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 for recording all my plugins I use are TS' Secret from BTE Audio, X50 from The Serina Experiment, LeCab from Poulin, Dimension Expander from Xfer Records (in small amounts), and Poidaobi's Engl v30 higher presence impulse. Along with the ReaXcomp and the ReaEQ that come with Reaper.
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Re: Guitar Software General

Postby hunterz263 » 15 Nov 2013 21:59

I myself have POD Farm 2.0 and I must say... honestly, I did not like the sound it produced. Anything I did sounded so... crunchy and messy. Maybe that was because I was new to the whole "EQing" and "Audio interface" areas of musical production. I do have a friend though that absolutely makes POD Farm look like a a great tool (I am sure it is, but I am far too much of a newbie to figure out how to make a good sound on it). His name is Canapplejack. Here are a few of his works he personally likes:

Pieces of Me
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I myself use Guitar Rig 5 for my amp emulation. To me it delivers a better cleaner sounding guitar than POD Farm could ever do.
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