Nick Dacek
Level 1
(5 points)
Q: Convolving for guitar cabs?
hi guys
so like many i've been messing with plugins such as amplitube and guitar rig. well personally, they all sound like crap...and many have discovered if you put an impulse of a real guitar cabinet after the plugin, it turns it into a completely beleivable guitar sound
However the PROBLEM is on mac, there arent a whole lot of convolving plugins. im using one, called LAConvolver...problem is i think it's a weak link in my chain, as a all my guitar sounds are terribly thin!
Im recording from a rackmount preamp (boss GL-100) usiing a nice thick fat clean tone...recording from the monitor out into my Firewire audiophile..which is more of a DJ/Phono interface, but it works
There was a nother convolving plugin for free, but god is it buggy...cant even get sampling right
ive tried using space designer with impulses from guitar cabs, however it always seems to add a bit extra or be a bit..well, still reverby....how can i make it so that it does nothing but convolve the signal and nothing more? its always seemed to add alittle more noise or hiss than the other plugin...
i havent updated to logic 8.0.2 yet..been forever since i've played with it to tell ya the truith
so like many i've been messing with plugins such as amplitube and guitar rig. well personally, they all sound like crap...and many have discovered if you put an impulse of a real guitar cabinet after the plugin, it turns it into a completely beleivable guitar sound
However the PROBLEM is on mac, there arent a whole lot of convolving plugins. im using one, called LAConvolver...problem is i think it's a weak link in my chain, as a all my guitar sounds are terribly thin!
Im recording from a rackmount preamp (boss GL-100) usiing a nice thick fat clean tone...recording from the monitor out into my Firewire audiophile..which is more of a DJ/Phono interface, but it works
There was a nother convolving plugin for free, but god is it buggy...cant even get sampling right
ive tried using space designer with impulses from guitar cabs, however it always seems to add a bit extra or be a bit..well, still reverby....how can i make it so that it does nothing but convolve the signal and nothing more? its always seemed to add alittle more noise or hiss than the other plugin...
i havent updated to logic 8.0.2 yet..been forever since i've played with it to tell ya the truith
Mac OS X (10.5.5)
by John Buehler,Solvedanswer
John Buehler
Level 2
(385 points)
Well I have had success in convolving speaker cabs, but Space Designer won't do anything like add distortion or anything like that. The quality of the impulse is very important. If it's too reverby, try shortening the decay in Space Designer. I have not had any hiss issues with SD, I think it sounds great. But just so we are clear, Space Designer is a reverb convolution. Use Match EQ for tone and EQ convolution.
