This EQ trick Rules on Metal Guitar!
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- I learned a super cool trick for thickening metal guitars, and it even works with a free plugin!
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I've done this with the UAD Pultec on my guitars and bass for the past decade or more. I agree, it rules. I also had a pair of Warm Audio EQP clones but found the plugins to get the job done way faster with mostly the same result. Good video, dude!
Thanks for chiming in, Keith! Love your work!
Hell yeah! Getting closer to Keith's awesome tones 😏
I've was taught this by an assistant engineer at the time who worked with Eddie Kramer when he was working I believe on Hendrix's Electric Ladyland!! He also told me one miking process for a cabinet by using an Shure SM57 paired with an Electrovoice RE20!!!! Great guitar sound paired with a Neuman U47 as a room mic!!!
I like the bottom and mid, but the high frequency noise from crashing overtones I don't. Few recordings are in control up there, probably because few people can hear any high frequencies after a few decades of beating eardrums..
instablaster.
A little tip for comparing plugins more effectively: When opening the plugin chain window you can control-select the plugins in the list you want to compare and then toggle them via CTRL+B. CTRL+B inverts the bypass state so inactive effects become active and vice-versa. This way you can compare them directly, without having the dry sound in between. Really helps picking up very small differences.
Dude! That just changed everything for me. I'm going to do this on my mixes from now on. It really thickens the guitars but also cleans them up. I'm blown away. Thanks Glenn!
You’re welcome!
Just tried this on one of my mixes and, WOW, the improvement is incredible! Great tip, Glenn, thanks!
this is a life changer , immediately tried it on a mix i'm working on and it's pure magic
thank you glenn
Its fun to see you get actually genuinely excited about working, engineering and tech. I like this side of you it seems like you were having fun making this vid
Has anyone ever mentioned how much this guitar part sounds like “Wherever I May Roam”?
I thought that too as soon as I’ve heard it!
I'm under the impression that it's a test file to dial in the Metallica sound considering the riff and reference to the snare on the Black Album.
Yeah it's pretty blatant
It must be on purpose
I’ve heard this song a few times recently on this channel. I didn’t see the original video when they tracked it though. I’ll have to go back and find that video and see if they mention Metallica at all.
B. Gregory Oh.. I missed that part! I was probably busy writing my comment. Lol.
In a whole mix, the combo of bass picking sound, bass natural low end, and with the chunky guitar together has a great relationship. That mix sounded cool because of the two balancing good tones together for that BIG sound.
Awesome work Glenn!
This is the best tip Ive seen in a while. Applied it to some home mixes with some minor adj to freq and it was amazing! Thanks Glen
Thanks for your knowledge Glenn! I've been playing guitar for 25 years but I'm still a novice when it comes to production and this tutorial has been a huge help in improving my guitar tones
I always smile when I watch your videos. Thank you Glen! Love from Australia
My band mates and I have been watching your videos every week and I love the enthusiasm and energy you bring to everything while still maintaining a commitment to educating your audience. I’m relatively new to your channel but I have officially subscribed! Please keep on keeping on.
Welcome aboard, Greg!
wow - that is very cool, it really adds some nice bite/clarity to the guitar - cant wait to go try this this week
Dude, when you’re at the board working you have a totally rad vibe of happiness compared to the sitting and talking head agro. I actually love it and love seeing you in your element.
I love the fact that you constantly have your ear to the ground with all of these new tricks and plugins. Keep it up dude! :D
Glen is a mad genius
Lmao... yea... “new “ tricks
I just tried this with the Puig Tec and got immediate results. Its so subtle and huge at the same time. I have friends who have recorded with Andy and I never knew about this. Glad I watched this vid.
I love them straight from the mic, even. That capture sounds great.
Holy fuck, I paused the video and did this as soon as I knew what you were doing. This is like the answer to my prayers!!! What a tone saver!
Best demonstration of the Pultec trick I've seen- I think I get the idea. The Puigtec definitely has something magic in the low end, but you motivated me to dig out my PTEq-X! Thanks! And yeah, that is one *MONSTER* metal anthem guitar tone. Monster.
Dude I don’t know how I haven’t found your channel before today. Instantly subbed. You’re great!
Great trick. Really like the gritty sound of the Puig Tec.
Rock on, Glenn! This trick really works! Thanks!
Man!! That makes a huge difference!! Thanks for the tip!!
Love, love, LOVE the riff at 15:17. Very cool. Great stuff here Glenn.
Terrific sound, I would like to say that the bass sound really contributes in creating that huge guitar tone. Great work !!!
Glenn.. just can't thank you enough! Used the PuigTec on a "mastodon" type tone/song and loved it! It's never going to leave my gtrs buss from now on!
This was the trick for kick drums for years, and I feel the old slipperman forum threads had a bunch of this stuff in it about this. I believe It creates a resonance peak at twice the frequency selected. The Waves HLS will do it by selecting the low end at 60 and leaving it flat and my hardware neve style preamp highpass has a great resonance peak too for this.
Try the same settings with 60 and 100hz for snare drums and toms.
dale rican Cool?
So, if you didn't have a Pultec clone, you could fake one up with a shelf at 30hz +6dB and a peak at 60hz -6dB?
I'll have to try it a bit later. To my ears, the cut seems like it's more in the low mids than the bass, maybe an octave higher around 120hz? I'll experiment and see.
@@Mikey__R it seems that the hardware creates a phase related shift I am not sure you would get if you copy the stated frequency settings with a digital eq. The Manley store has a nice little graph of the boost/cuts at the same time.
www.milkaudiostore.com/en/shop/manley-stereo-pultec-eq/
What day did he say? I’m a bass player, what is 2s day? Someone help me my number knowledge goes up to 1.
Brb saw a red dot gotta go chase it
Silence The System I have a friend Lefty Tues , it’s his day .
So that's where all of our bass players went
I'm still wondering why they call it a forklift when it clearly only has two forks... Yes I too play bass sometimes. :)
@@gilbertspader7974 hey lefty here, yeah it'll be june 18th bud, yall missed it by a month
Ghiman the guy Damm I thought it was August ????? This is June ??????
I just used this technique on the rhythm guitars of a heavy post-punk chorus using the Ignite Amps emulation and... OMG, so perfect! Thanks for the tip, Glen!
Tried this last night, and DUUUUUUUUDE!!! I ended up going back through some of my other projects and doing this to all the guitars! Thanks for this tip!
Glad I could help!
2 years in and I still put that shit on EVERYTHING!!!! Seriously, I love this trick. I've been placing 1 on the guitar bus for all of my heavy guitars but I recently started putting it on the DI before the amp sims, too. SOOOOO gooooooood!
Thanks for the trick. Useful as always
Thx much Glenn. You have good tutorial delivery.
Really glad this came up in my search results.
Thanks for sharing!
I have the PuigTec sitting around for some time now and mainly used it to enhance the highs, because it gives a really nice sheen with its character.
But that low frequ trick is really neat. I tried it on some synthesizers, as lead or low mid bass sounds made with those also occupy roughly the same range as distorted guitar does and it works pretty well!
So, even if you're not a metal producer, but watch the channel for the mixing technique tips. This one also applies well in electronic music! It's so worth to look beyond your own genres to learn some awesome stuff, that also works with your music, even if it's a completely different genre.
You’re looking good Glenn. Thanks for the great content.
I like the angry character you do sometimes, but I much prefer this genuine way of talking. It's clear you love doing this stuff and it's a pleasure getting great advice!
Nice Tone, man! Have to try this Out immediately
Just trierd the trick that you described and OMG the guitars now sound just awesome!
That was actually super helpful, I was just having some trouble with one strange rock-ish mix. Very useful trick, thanks!
And I do actually use PTEq-X. Killer freeware, if you ask me. Love using it for more heavy EQ tweaks.
F*"%$# Yeah! Killer tone and variability. Great job Glenn. 🤘
This is an awesome trick. I can't wait to try it
Amazing and very useful tutorial! Many thanks
Cool info, Glenn! I was digging that snare tone as well!!!
Glad I could help!
OMG!!! Just tried this and WOW!!! What a difference.
One of the best guitar tones I've ever heard next to the HM2 Chainsaw. Bravo!
Ty!
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Great Video Glenn! Grabbed your course and Scott's Guitar Tone Mastery....Going thru them now...Loads of useful info...Thanks again and Love Tutorial Tuesday!
Glad it’s working out, Gary!
Had the ignite PTEq-X for a long time and never quite understood it but gave this a go and it definetly made a difference! Need to dive a bit more into the plugin but it's an interesting concept I had never thought about and I can see it has some helpful uses. Thanks for the advice!
The contradictory hi-pass/bass boost a cool trick I've been doing for a few years courtesy of Andy Schepps. It works on a bunch of sources (toms, vocals and shakers) but it works amazingly well on heavy electric guitars. You can move that frequency up much higher than 30hz with different style EQ's besides the Pultec and get some great results depending on the mix. Personally, I dig it around 100hz to get the guitars and bass to gel together in those overlapping frequencies, with the bass having more low end poop around 50-75hz. LOVE YA, GLENN!
Dude 🎸🎶⚡️🎵 That is *one sick tone!* I’m having trouble making my own mixes not muddy or sludgy but currently experimenting with the high and low pass filters as well as different guitar and bass EQ settings.
Wow, this is some of that insider voodoo magic. Thanks for sharing!
Edit - episode suggestion. I'd love to hear about your songwriting and recording process for all these riffs you produce every week.
really an awesome trick! sounds huge!
That looks totally sick, but it f*cking wicked! Those harmonics make tighter and punchy sound, without enhancing the low end, killer trick!
neat trick Glenn. I need to give it a try
What a fantastically interesting technique, and what a great effect!! Thanks for sharing Glen. And can I just say to those who keep saying "stop shilling, stop promoting you course and pro mix academy courses all the time." I bought a couple courses when they were on sale (before Glen had even announced his course), and they have been quite possibly the best purchases I've made for improving my mixes. Seriously do yourself a favour and check out the courses, see what grabs you, and take the plunge, you'll thank yourself later, and you will notice a huge difference!
Nice job, man! I have a line6 pocket pod and there's a sound like that in there. Keeping up with the pros! Nice!
Super helpful! Sounds huge.
Interesting. I have seen the pultec trick used on kicks and bass alot and never got around to trying it on guitars. Glad to find yet another use for one plugin :D
Great stuff! Love ya Glenn
Wait!?, What!?, so let me get this right, @30hz you turn the boost up to 6, you turn the attenuate op to 6 and then you turn 16khz up to 6, so the the settings are 666 and your guitars will immediately sound more evil?
That is the most metal thing ever!!!! \m/ \m/
Love the show Glenn keep up the good work :-)
Dam changing my perception of how to mix guitars since I’ve always been a fan of a gentle roll off at 100 hz for most guitars !
Sounds awesome!
This might just be the best guitar tone I've ever heard on your channel 🧐
Edit: Well, maybe that's because of the layered higher guitar.. Either way, sounds awesome!
Thanks you for this tip, it works great!
I did this eq move to pink noise and analyzed it. I found that it boosts the lows while scooping the low mids, which totally makes sense. The free bx_subfilter may do similar things to a guitar signal without adding subs.
Wow amazing tip! Just tried this and what a huge difference in tone. Thx🤘 and love the 666 reference, that sold me
Analog Obsession has a Pultec clone...and so much more. And they recently made all of their plugins free!
And he's back. New plugin in 3 weeks!
@@solosabbath8940 Right on, man! Thanks for the info.
Yup, good stuff but no AAX support so PT users are exempt from the party unless using a wrapper.
Thanks for the tip, I installed a few and put the Pultec on with Glenns settings and it really makes the IR cabs come alive. Cheers!
@@chrisbingham5665 You bet! Pretty great plugins for free.
Great technique! Tks
I liked the Waves version way more. Sounds sick!
Whoa! That sounds killer!
With a lot of tones I have made removing a bit of frequencies a little to the left of the treble side actually worked for me cleaning up stuff even with clean tones. Compression can also effect tone and might make me eq some things differently.
Dude, you're f*ckin' AWESOME! I've been a musician for 15+ years now, I took college theory classes, classical guitar master class (with a GREAT! guitar instructor!), sang/performed in one of the college choirs (with two amazing conductors/teachers) -- as well as -- ProTools 101 and 110 certification courses from my personal guitar instructor (who is an adjunct professor at the university, and just an aweosome, skilled, talented guy who really taught me a lot. Really, can never thank him enough for teaching me all that he did). Anyway, even with all my practice, knowledge, great teachers, great experience, band mates (who have taught me SO! much, as well), a lot of this stuff is STILL like understanding Chinese to me. Haha So, thanks man! For bringing FREE courses/ edutainment to the masses! Love the channel so far, and I know where to go to figure out this "Chinese" studio stuff. Haha So, thanks for helping all of us understand the "chinese" technical talk! Lol Will definitely be watching/referring to your videos because: You're f*ckin' Awesome!
That sounds so good!
Great sound Glenn
Dude thank you!!!!! I didn't know this one
Nice! 🤘🏼 watching and paying attention 😬
Glenn, Very timely video as for a fun project I'm working on a few old school hard rock - metal style original guitar tunes (they not so relaxing but I used to love cranking up my JCM 800 50 watt with 1960 4x12 cab, lol), I have the Waves JP version so I grabbed a screenshot and going to test out with BE100 plugin! Ciao, ALDO
Awesome tip! Really beefs up the guitars 🤘🤘🤘
That’s a neat little trick. Very nifty.
Really digging the Vid's !!
Monster bass guitar sound is what gets my attention here the most.
Thank you Sir! This has brought my muddy crap noob recordings out of the dark! invaluable! 666 30 even on a stock logic X vintage tube EQ makes all the difference!
Cool!!!Pultecs are the toolbox for everything
Cool trick. Thanks.
Wow! That 30hz trick is amazing!
You played one of my songs once. Thank you!
I have a pair of warm audio Pultecs, can't wait to try this out
Cool trick, I didn't know about that. Thanks! Another free Pultec style EQ alternative is "AnalogObsession RareSE".
I can imagine this trick would work wonders on fast, palm-mute intensive death metal guitars. Gonna give it a try
5:12 is my favorite part. Nice tips.
Glen its punchin this yamahaha reciever in the livin room goldwood 1558's just perfect
I've been having some issues tightening up the tone on some 8 string stuff I'm currently mixing. Gonna give this a try
Haha tried this thing out immediately once you spotted it out, before this actual tutorial came out and it worked like magic. That 666 setting seems the greatest; however I tried that high boost on 8k first, I had levels set at 7-7-4 and a little bit of high attenuation @ 20k (for which I have never found any use before, but on this occasion not that bad). Sounds pretty good on leads. I'm using VST called Rare by Analog Obsession, and it's free as well.
I bet that rear element did do something amazing Glen. You kinda walked into that.
This trick even works on midi guitar. It's so subtle but huge.
I fucking LOVE the Puigtec...and now I love it even more...
Funny that you mention the Black album because I was trying to figure out what song that main guitar riff reminded me of... Wherever I May Roam!!
Had a similar revelation today with the lack of powerful, yet controlled resonant frequencies that are missing from amp sim/IR tones. Tried an analog harmonic bass enhancer (Analog Obsession 'Lovend') and figured out that around 160 hz things get a bit castrated. All of a sudden, all the chunk was there. Palm mutes felt like palm mutes, big chord hits now moved air. Hallelujah
You are the best!!!.. and honest which is most important!!!