How To Get A Good Rock Rhythm Sound? |
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Oct 19 2014, 04:57 PM
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Midrange is where a guitar lives, especially the rhythm guitar.
Boost the mids and cut a little bass. Use the bridge pickup. You may also want to try dialing back the distortion. When you're playing by yourself that hyped, 'scooped' tone sounds great but disappears and/or gets mushy as soon as you try to add it to a band or a track. Find isolated rock rhythm tracks on-line. You'll hear how mid heavy they are and they tend to have less gain than you think. What type of guitar are you using? Are you using pedals or just amp settings? This post has been edited by klasaine: Oct 19 2014, 05:05 PM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 19 2014, 05:48 PM
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Can you find on the ME-80 just a 'vintage' style Marshall amp gain or crunch patch?
Or, if boss pedal models are available look for the SD-1 or OD-3 models. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
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Oct 19 2014, 09:11 PM
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Hi mate! I think that starting simple is the key. This new processors full of possibilities use to confuse us. We start to add things and things and finally we don't really know what each thing is doing. Most f our guitar heroes use to just have a great head amp and a good cabinet and that's the soul of their tone. Guys like Angus Young, Slash, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Zakk Wylde and many others connect (ed) their guitar to maybe tube screamer or a wah wah pedal directly to the guitar amp that's all.
So I like to apply the same concept to emulators. Check the amp that those guitarists that you named use, set it with your Boss pedal emulator, the same with the cabinet, and experiment with different EQ settings. There are not lots of option and possibilities when you work with a less stuff and less parameters. Try using an overdrive like tube screamer before the amp emulated. I can't explain it with words, but it's a trick that many times gives a more defined sound to the guitar tone. As the other guys commented before using the bridge pick up and increasing mids are fundamental for a good rock rhythm tone. Try it. -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 20 2014, 10:16 AM
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QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Oct 19 2014, 08:11 PM)  Hi mate! I think that starting simple is the key. This new processors full of possibilities use to confuse us. We start to add things and things and finally we don't really know what each thing is doing. Most f our guitar heroes use to just have a great head amp and a good cabinet and that's the soul of their tone. Guys like Angus Young, Slash, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Zakk Wylde and many others connect (ed) their guitar to maybe tube screamer or a wah wah pedal directly to the guitar amp that's all. So I like to apply the same concept to emulators. Check the amp that those guitarists that you named use, set it with your Boss pedal emulator, the same with the cabinet, and experiment with different EQ settings. There are not lots of option and possibilities when you work with a less stuff and less parameters. Try using an overdrive like tube screamer before the amp emulated. I can't explain it with words, but it's a trick that many times gives a more defined sound to the guitar tone. As the other guys commented before using the bridge pick up and increasing mids are fundamental for a good rock rhythm tone. Try it. Gabriel, out of interest, do you have any particular EQ settings on your rhythm sounds? I liked your rhythm sound on your Black Veil Brides lesson. |
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Oct 22 2014, 05:51 AM
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QUOTE (bingefeller @ Oct 20 2014, 06:16 AM) Gabriel, out of interest, do you have any particular EQ settings on your rhythm sounds? I liked your rhythm sound on your Black Veil Brides lesson. Hi friend! Here you can download some of my newest patches for Lepou plugins which are free amp emulators: Click HERE. And talking about that lesson that you linked, these are my settings: (note that I added a tube screamer emulation before the amp)  -------------------- My lessons
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Oct 22 2014, 06:11 AM
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Good tips Gabe
 But I think he's just trying to figure out how to dial in his current rig which is a small cube amp and a multi fx footpedal. Just like playing guitar, it takes time. It's frustrating at first cause you know what you want it to sound like, but can't make it sound that way. Start with a basic patch and knob twist until things start sounding better. You've got to get familiar with your gear first. Dig in!QUOTE (Gabriel Leopardi @ Oct 22 2014, 12:51 AM) Hi friend! Here you can download some of my newest patches for Lepou plugins which are free amp emulators: Click HERE. And talking about that lesson that you linked, these are my settings: (note that I added a tube screamer emulation before the amp) |
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